The Wahila Family: When will it end?

Remodeling. It's about time to wrap things up. We had our bathroom remodeled in April of 2007 by a crew led by the gentleman who was replacing the roof at Third Presbyterian Church. Between that time and now, I made a pretty good mess of other parts of the house as I started projects, large and small. So, Michelle called on the community of Highland Park for recommendations of a general contractor/handyman. As it turns out, several recommendations were made for one Dan Hinchman, who was part of the crew that worked our bathroom! Fantastic, that was an easy find. Projects on tap for Dan included:

New floor in kitchen and dining room
Secure the dishwasher frame to the wall and floor and the dishwasher to the frame
Finish the plaster on the support posts and wall section that I put up around the dining room/kitchen interface
Install the remaining ceiling tiles in the hallway and stairway
Put up molding around the ceiling tiles (see number 4)
Install hand railing in stairway
Other miscellany

With these things completed, all that would remain would be some priming and painting on my part, as well as putting up a few shelves and a light in the nursery. The end is in sight! Here are some pics of the work. Cutting in around the edges.

Say goodbye to Bicycle Yellow

Here's a good view of the lovely tile floor. Originally I didn't want to repaint the two rooms, but you can see that the tile color is very light, similar to the walls and we felt that a darker color would help balance things a bit. Yin and Yang.

The hallway ceiling looks great. I just need to get in there and finish up some painting.

Looking into the dining room from the kitchen

Same as above. We are really happy with the color. Many thanks to our neighbors Gary (for his brilliant artistic sense) and Catherine (for gifting us with the paint).

Oh, so that spot. It's the only unpainted spot in the kitchen. So our window air conditioner leaked inside this summer and made the paint in the kitchen bubble out. I removed the flaking paint and plaster and am fixing that spot up. It needs one more application of plaster, then some sanding, followed by primer and paint. Not too bad.