http://www.spamrevenge.com the site that has nothing to do with spam nor revenge Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:36:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been tardy with updates but there has been quite of bit of progress. We went to Timbertown on the weekend and they let us return 5 boxes of unused flooring and then we also picked out 150 feet of baseboard. The baseboard is a nice 5/8" ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=75 The granite installers showed up right on time got the granite all installed in about 3 hours total time. Because the kitchen is fairly small they had quite a difficult time getting the two pieces in properly, they ended up having to move the stove out of the way ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=67 There hasn't been too much progress lately. Found out that the person that built the IKEA order at IKEA included the wrong cabinets for above the stove and fridge. They were the super deep cabinets, we ended up keeping the 24" deep cabinet for above the fridge but ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=65 The floors were finished off on Friday and they look really good. Its finally feeling like the place is starting to come together. I spent some time on Saturday taping carboard boxes down to the floor to protect them from the cabinent installers who are suppose to be ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=60 Just a couple pictures of the flooring that has gone in, they are about 1/3 of the way done I would say. It is looking pretty good so far, but it sure feels different right now, I think it will feel better once all the furniture is moved back ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=58 Cindy and I went to the granite shop today to take a look at the slab they had for us. We were originally told they were getting around 10 slabs in and we would likely be able to get a choice of the one we wanted, however there was ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=55 This past weekend Cindy and I picked out the handles for the kitchen cabinets and pantry. We ended up going with a stainless steel square tube handle from Lee Valley. They are a nice chunky handle that still looks fairly modern. For the upper cabinets we're using the ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=45 This past weekend my brother and I spent most of Saturday ripping up all the K3 underlay that was under all the old lino in my place. Luckily the K3 wasn't glued down (it was only nailed) but it was still a lot of work to tear up. ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=44 So I now have a new dishwasher on its way. Sears.ca had a sale on a few weekends ago for $400 off a Kenmore Elite dishwasher, turns out that it is actually made by Bosch so it is a fairly good machine. I missed the sale on the ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=43 I recently decided to start some renovations on my place. The current plan is to replace all the flooring on the main floor with maple hardwood, new baseboards, replace the kitchen cabinets, replace the kitchen counter top, new dishwasher, new pantry cabinets to replace the shelves in the ... http://www.spamrevenge.com/?p=42