Geothermal / Hive Room

It has been a while......

Yes, I have been working on the house this whole time. I looked at my last post... August 22ish, 2012, which is 2.5 years ago!

You know what happened? That week I met the love of my life. Solo activities such as blogging fell to the wayside. She and I got married in September 2014, and she now puts just as much time into this house as I do these days! (Gay marriage is now legal in where we live, hooray!)

So from now on the projects documented most likely had (quite a bit of) help from my wife. Like this one...

Project: Geothermal Room

Approximate start & completion date: 5/26/2014

We wanted to liven up the basement room that the geothermal heat pump lives in. It doesn't have much of a purpose besides tool storage, but we have to walk through it to get to other rooms. Might as well make it look nice.

Again, not afraid of the dark colors. Natural woods, chocolate brown, bamboo green, chalkboard paint.

You can see the mess in the basement- we are still working on many projects!

Reclaimed wood door from The Rebuilding Center.

Always going to Home Depot...

Light switch gets an upgrade

The corner, it all comes together

The shelves are cut from timber from our own backyard. Yes, we chainsawed them. We use a Timberjig to cut the boards.

All bark, no bite.

This is now one of my favorite rooms. We love honeycomb patterns.

Upstairs Hallway

I decided on an eggplant hue for the hallway and left the trim and built-ins white. The art on the walls is honestly just so I don't have to store it anywhere. We will put real thought into what to hang and where later on.

Small built-in. For a telephone?

Larger built-in. What to do with these??

Bathroom (Main Floor)

Shower knob was missing

Unfortunately we don't really have true "before" photos from when we got the house. The bathroom was dirty and full of weird stuff. It had tacky wallpaper boarders around the top of the walls. After we removed all that, here is our progress...

Water in hot water tank was rusty

Jacob (my brother) is painting the bathroom bright red

Jacob looks pleased with the color

Shower Curtain

Door

Wall

Green Tea On The Walls

I am not afraid of dark, cozy living rooms. Especially ones with a fireplace, comfy wing back chairs and hardwood floors. Add an old record player scratching away at an Echo and the Bunnymen album heard somewhere in the background, a delicious novel and a hot cup of tea... THAT is the kind of living room I envision. Hmm.. well, we are getting there.....

Updates:

• Stove circuit is fixed and stove now works!
• Fridge is still acting up... called an appliance doctor, making a house call on Tuesday to get this sorted out.
• Front room (pictured) is now all painted, ceiling, walls, and trim! Time to bring in that record player....