Wow I really need to update this blog.

Well lots has happened over the last almost 2 years. We finished our stamped concrete. There is over 800 sq feet of it in total on 2 levels. It surrounds the koi pond that I am still working on. I hand dug it. It is 2100 gallons and home to aprox 25 Koi and 10 gold fish. It is really relaxing to sit by and watch them troll along. I need to finish the waterfall and can hopefully make that happen in the spring. Most recently I gutted the ceiling on the dining room and kitchen side of the house. This was done to repair a failed joist. It had sagged by aprox 1.25 inches which quite honestly is alot worse then it sounds. It felt like you were walking up and down a hill on the second floor. After reinforcing it I installed a beam and boxed that in with drywall. While having the second floor open I replumbed some stuff and redid some electrical. We added a light over the sink. Dropped from two lights to one in the kitchen. I also added electrical for a island mount exhaust fan. Doing that also required a 6 inch exhaust duct to the outdoors. The new plumbing was so that we could return the claw foot tub to the bathroom after a 4 year absence. We refinished the outside of the tub with the wall colour ourselves and hired the out the refinishing of the inside to a pro. There was a couple of hicups with that but all in all it turned out alright in the end. We bought new fixtures and a drain for the tub. We also got the last peice of granite needed to finish the kitchen. When all that was done I repainted the house in the same colour but with Benny Moore paint this time. It is so much nicer then the behr crap we painted with before. All in all everything turned out well. Here are a couple of photos.