Month: June 2020

Bedroom 1 Painting

When we bought this (old) house, the back bedroom that overlooks the yard seemed to be the best one! The closer we looked through, the more we saw… This room did not have a popcorn ceiling, but we had the ceiling textured and repainted along with the other rooms. No problems there, the team said…

Bathroom Updates

Well, the bathroom is halfway done! I have been at the house painting and unpacking the kitchen while the contractors work on the bathroom. It’s really interesting to see the bathroom take shape. The sheer number of tools at our house right now is unbelievable. There is no possible way we could have done this…

Painting the Cabinets

The bathroom project continues- not too many updates there. We got to pick the height of our shower and asked for an outlet (there was no outlet in the bathroom before!). The Handyman Heroes ran into a problem with the tub drain when it broke because it was so rusted. The toilet was also an…

Painting Day 1

So today I started painting the cabinets. I went to the house around 11, after picking up more samples at Sherwin Williams. I got “Smoky Azurite” and “Inky Blue,” as well at “High Reflective White.” When I got to the house, everything seemed a bit less dire than the previous day, probably because I had…

Bathroom Plans

When we first saw our new house, we didn’t even really look in the bathroom more than a passing glance. The house was occupied and we were seeing it in the midst of a pandemic. When we were inside the house I don’t think it had really sunk in that we wanted to buy it…

The search

After almost ten years of living in our rent-controlled apartment in the Outer Sunset, we decided to start looking for a house to buy in San Francisco. We agreed that we wanted to live as close as possible to Golden Gate Park, where we love to run, walk, and picnic with friends. Colin wanted to…

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