Category: renovation

The last two weeks have been really busy on the house project. One of the biggest challenges of renovating (versus a new build) is that there’s never a simple way to mark something off the to-do list. It’s all so interconnected that it takes a lot of coordination, and some tasks that we’d like to…

My head is spinning, there is just so much to do and so much coordination happening. I decided in September to create monthly videos with a snapshot of project progress each day, and then abandoned that for October because the photos were so boring. It’s only paperwork, emails, follow-up phone calls and text messages. Every…

When I picture this project, it looks like an octopus to me. If you had to give it a nice, short title, you might call it a kitchen renovation, but the kitchen portion of it is about 20% of the overall project. If it were that simple, we’d have done it a long time ago. …