Wednesday, May 20, 2009

More Home improvement

Well I can't edit the post Karyn put up with the pictures, but I suppose I can add comments to it. ;)

The Deck really feels like a deck now. It's great to just walk out the back door on to the deck with a handful of grilling food, stable as can be. Avoiding the walk down the rickety wobbly stairs that used to head down to the rock below with two hands full of items just begging to fall to the ground...

But... It's still a project unfinished. We have yet to build stairs... The deck is on the East end of the house, and the first set of stairs will exit East of the deck. 11 feet wide in fact, and eventually drop you on a rock patio of some kind which will lead you to the garage. The second set of stairs will exit South in the nook next to the house, again to some sort of landscaping not yet decided.

We will eventually put deck boards around the exterior of the deck for a pretty finish!

The tile shows some hard work (Mostly on Karyn's account) finishing the transition from the old wood floor in the living room to the new wood floor in the Kitchen. We will eventually re-do the entire house in wood flooring, but for the time being we have this little transition point. Obviously you can see the walls still have some finishing to be done.

Next weekend? Memorial day? I think I'll be working on the stairs for the Deck. Karyn and I already have 4 hours into cutting the stringers which you can see in the pile.

2 comments:

Jake and Erin Lewis said...

Deck and home are looking really good!! When is the deck-warming BBQ party scheduled? Hooray for summer!

Karyn said...

gosh, i'd like to think soon.... but the deck still isn't done. a few more weeks? and, yes, YEAH SUMMER!