Monday, July 13, 2015

No more greenhouse

It's been slow waiting for the building department corrections, worrying that they'll ask for a structural engineer to prepare and stamp calcs. If we had the permit, we still would need to find someone to build it. The finish line seems far away, and before we get there, the house will be half-wrecked. Sigh.

So, for an inspirational project, I asked Kevin and Johnathan to help me dismantle the lean-to greenhouse. I know the tacked on glass house won't be part of the finished house, and I knew it would transform the look of the place from the backyard to have it gone now. Thanks to Kevin and Johnathan--we were done in about three hours.

The main pieces are three aluminum-framed plates of glass.

There were open shelves and a window repurposed as a door.

The walls were just EPS or foam board.

Kevin and Johnathan did all the sledgehammer work.

Pacific Topsoil charged me $32 to take the broken concrete block. We used Johnathan's old van for the hauling.

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Rendering(s)

To help the neighbors visualize, I'm working on photo mashups like this:

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Kitchen Items

This post will inventory the items available to be packed and shipped.
  1. Kelley plastic plates from Jan. 94 (x2)
  2. Handmade brown dish
  3. Peter Rabbit plate (Royal Doulton)
  4. Various Petroglyph plates (x6)
  5. Various Petroglyph bowls (x3)
  6. Black "Couroc" bowl
  7. Tigger's cat bowl
  8. Leopard-print mug
  9. Green plastic bowl and lid
  10. Rainbow plastic "daisy" plates (x11)
  11. Crystal candle holders (x4)
  12. Pewter snuffers (x2)
  13. Colorful rooster salt and pepper shakers
  14. Slim glass candle holder
  15. Various silver-color bowls (x5)
  16. Cut-glass bowl
  17. Pyrex pie plates, different sizes (x3)
  18. Pyrex bowl and glass lid
  19. Heavy glass tumblers (x2)
  20. Crystal bottle stopper
  21. Larger crystal bowl
  22. Cherub napkin rings (x4)
  23. Smaller crystal bowl
  24. Teardrop-shaped crystal bowl
  25. Flower petal design crystal bowl
  26. Glass non-Pyrex bowl [the large one broke]
  27. Glass coasters (x5)
  28. Medium Pyrex bowl (no lid)



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(l to r): Snuffers #12; napkin rings #22; salt and pepper #13; bottle stopper #20; petal-shape bowl #25; wrapped glass coasters.

Steps Project

I want to remodel the whole front yard. New hardscape, and so on. But at the moment, my path from the driveway to the house is only barely w...