Victorian House Renovation in Bloomingdale, DC
and so far, not much else.
its been a month since this happened. since then, time spent on VIB = 0.00002. unfortunately, time and resources for all of our projects, from new kitchen to a garden/forest wedding all come from the same source (who knew, average amount of hours spent on planning a wedding? 300! and I am not going to bring up the outrageous cost of the average wedding, which is up there with kitchen renovation budgets).… Read the rest
chalkboard time — her’s our january to dos. not much crossed off (in fact not one item)
so here is our february board:
what can i say. we have been busy.i was actually telling someone that renovating a house and panning a wedding are fairly similar. we have the vision and its awesome (in our heads), but before you get there, there are lots of behind the scenes work, not to mention money, involved.… Read the rest
happy news — sergey and jenia are engaged. (yes, we do everything backwards)
of course that means that some attention from the VIB will shift to the VIB- wedding edition. as of right now the plan is for a very late summer nuptials, which is going to require quite some time from us for the next couple of months.
we will still be doing projects on the house, just with a slowed pace.… Read the rest
We are going to take it easy this month, because it feels much better to accomplish everything rather than just some things. and really as long as patio door is finished i would be happy. oh and the first dryer has got to go.
Happy 2011! happy new beginnings :)
Since we have been on a kick with a year of firsts, we decided to do VIB’s own holiday card. The house pictures from last year’s snow storm were perfect, and after choosing one, we sergey used photoshop to enhance the image to make it look as if it were painted.
we also added a short text with our blog address and mailed these to friends and family last week.… Read the rest
that’ll be it for 2010.
we did not get around to a bunch of stuff. but really its ok.
2010 really was momentous. I am looking forward to next year :)
Cheers!… Read the rest
literary. when we took off the old molding and replaced the kitchen door we took the opportunity to add some insulation.
sort of wild that in certain spots you could see straight to the outside. the mortar just sort of crumbled out. sergey now thinks we should take down all of drywall in the kitchen and start everything from scratch to make sure we are good on all 6 sides (4 walls, floor and ceiling).… Read the rest
My wish is for a white Christmas. Though it won’t be our first snow this year — right as we went under contract last year, D.C. was hit with an epic snow storm. We trekked over to VIB, on foot cause all transport even metro was down, to take pictures.
The Brass Knob warehouse was a treasure trove that we were lucky to discover soon after moving to Bloomingdale. You could also get a pretty good deal if you know how to make one (I can’t, my palms start sweating and I get flustered at the thought of having to haggle).
But anyway, a few weeks ago, we got 6 buckets of 100-year old leaded tiles for $60, courtesy of Sergey!… Read the rest
at least in one of the spare bedrooms! we finally got around to finishing up the drywall box-out for our A/C vents. I spent last couple of weekends with joint compound and mudding and taping knives (I have learned so much!).
It was a bit difficult at first, I kept getting air bubbles in the tape and couldn’t get the compound to spread evenly, but I eventually got the hang of it (or so I thought)
With the next layer of compound it became apparent that air bubbles managed to hid in the tape and were making themselves all too apparent.… Read the rest
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