My Travels Around The World
December 2015
Departure: Sacramento to Milan
A pretty typical travel day with no curve balls thrown. Grateful for that. And I'm always amazed once we get to that first destination - [...]
Pre-Departure
Why Italy in January? This trip was created out of a variety of circumstances. The airline tickets have been booked since April because Dan had [...]
Laundry and Office
I think these are pretty self-explanatory. Paint, new cabinets, appliances and light fixtures. Before. After. Notice the light fixture is skewed. That's on purpose so [...]
Kitchen
This is where the most work was done. Again, a gut job. All new appliances, cabinets, flooring, and the hutch removed. The only thing that [...]
Bathroom
[Apologies for all the posting. I'm moving material over from one platform to another...] Because we lined up the sink, shower and toilet all on [...]
Living Room (part 2)
[Apologies for all the posting. I'm moving material over from one platform to another...] Theirs. Ours. This is the entrance to the bathroom from [...]
Living Room
[Apologies for all the posting. I'm moving material over from one platform to another...] Technically, the only changes we made to the living room [...]
Entry and Bedroom
[Apologies for all the posting. I'm moving material over from one platform to another...] This was our first impression of the place. That's [...]
Our Midtown Property: Before and After Intro
It's been quite the adventure. This is the first time I've done a remodel so I really didn't know what to expect. It was Dan's [...]
October 2015
1417 20th Street Update: wall removed, door moved
A flurry of activity since the tenant moved out, including Dan being in NC for a week since then. Demolition has started and Oakley and [...]
September 2015
Moving to Midtown
In July of 2014, Dan's employer, Bayer, moved their offices from Davis to West Sacramento. He was going from a 3 mile commute - which [...]
Montara update: about to go to design review
It's been awhile since I wrote about this project because we sort of lost focus on it once we started planning a move to Midtown [...]
June 2015
The Way Home
It was a long trip home. We left the Helsinki hotel at 5:30am Saturday morning, got home Sunday around 2:30pm - with a 10hour time [...]
Day 12: Tallinn, Estonia
Dan really enjoyed the hotel we stayed at in Helsinki, especially the view from our room and the sunsets (or lack of them probably more [...]
Day 11: Helsinki, Part 3
Who knew you could find 3 days of stuff to do in Helsinki? We really weren't sure when we booked this, but wanted to stay [...]
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