tap tap .. is this thing on?
Nov 7th, 2004 by Jason
Since our last update of “as 749 Quesnel turns…”
Ian moved back in. He barely was able to fit all of his stuff in the (admittedly small) bedroom, but with a little creativity on his part, he’ll be fine. (Ian: lose the big-ass antique dresser!) This house is definately crammed now (4 adults, 2 cats, and a dog), but the extra money from Ian’s rent is a help to us, and for Ian, the rent here is a lot cheaper, which helps him.
With the help of (Handy) Andy, we replaced the the fluorescent light (which was the last bit of the original kitchen ceiling) with six recessed lights. We’ve gone from almost-adequate lighting to bright enough that with a little coordination with the kitchen blinds we can now do semaphore to the F14s landing at Oceana. Oh, and a big “fuck you” to the builder of the house as we also installed a new handy-dandy kitchen lightswitch by the main kitchen entrance! No more walking all the way THROUGH the dark kitchen to turn on the !@#$ light. The wiring logistics of adding the new switch took a few hours longer than we thought (OK, it whipped our butts so hard we had to go to Borders and look in an electrical book), so we didn’t have enough time to put up the new ceiling drywall.
The downstairs bathroom project is on official hold as we found termites in the baseboards today.
Placed an IKEA cabinet order that will pretty much finish off the kitchen. We’re getting a corner base cabinet that will make use of a lot of currently dead space, as well as three wall cabinets that will replace the 8ft pantry-from-hell cabinet. Total: $318, plus a six-hour round trip drive to pick it all up. 
fabulous. all you need is a ceiling.
And the floor. Oh dear god, please don’t forget the floor. And counters, but they’re OK to forget about.
I just want to know why you have,
1. so many rolls of Bounty (the quicker picker upper) in the ceiling (or it looks like the ceiling to me) and
2. a little christmas tree next to the A&W?
As far as counters, everyone’s doing granite counters. (Not me, of course!) With Ikea cabinets, you should do stainless and butcher block.
The abundance of Bounty is the direct result of me giving the incorrect answer to “hey, do we need more paper towels?” during our last Sams Club expedition. And to be fair, they’re on top of the counter, directly below where the ceiling *should* be.
20 rolls + 20 rolls = guess what everyone’s getting for Christmas.
The little Christmas Tree is actually a herb bush. Jason’s told me like 100x what it is, but it’s not garlic salt, so I keep forgetting. It smelled very good for the week that it was alive, and it wouldn’t kill the cats.
RE: counter, stainless = backsplashes? Is that easy to do? And yay for us seriously thinking about granite counters. LOL We were thinking gray would go well with the white cabinets, and then doing a Pargo-like wood floor. Whatever we do in the kitchen for flooring has to go to the room next door (the computer room). Ugh. Maybe I should hold a TCC interior design class field trip here or something?!
Rosemary=bush