This is an ongoing list of materials and products that we have used in our house. To avoid the nightmare of keeping links up-to-date, we decided to keep it simple and just list the stores/distributers in parentheses. All suppliers are in the Seattle area, unless otherwise noted. Happy sourcing! So here’s the great thing about house bloggers – even though I sometimes feel alone in my obsession with the details of domesticity, I take comfort knowing there are others out there who share my weirdness.
And that’s why I think it’s ok to devote an entire post to waste receptacles. You see, I have been longing for the day when I could justify buying fancy trash cans.
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It all started when I spied these pull-out bins from (the double for trash and compost and the single for recycling). Unfortunately, our gloriously deep sink was 1/2″ too deep and the bins wouldn’t fit. Good thing I measured first. With my Simple Human dreams crushed, I spent the better part of a lunch hour researching other refuse options. I found that if one is going the more custom route, there’s all sorts of fancy cabinets that swing, tilt and pivot, but we had a basic 36″ IKEA cabinet to work with.
Finally, I found a few viable options from. They didn’t steal my heart (and they’re about the same price as the others), but they would work. Assuming I would have to buy them online, I was scanning a few reviews on Amazon when one commenter shared that she found them at Lowes. So I swung by after work, and what do you know, there they were! Better yet, they had more options, allowing us to upgrade to a 4-bin system!
The two smaller bins on the left are for trash and compost. Here in Seattle, yard waste is picked up once a week so along with your weeds, so can throw in food waste including meat, dairy and biodegradable items like egg cartons and pizza boxes.
I considered a countertop pail with a tight seal and carbon filter (love new one from Simple Human), but we really needed something more substantial. Sadly, they don’t make lids for this size bin, but if it gets to be problem I have some ideas on ways to fabricate my own. For the two larger bins, it’s recycling and dog food. We can divert most of our paper, metal, glass and plastic for recycling (commingled even!) because yes, Seattle is just that awesome. For Bailey’s dietary needs, we had been planning on converting one of the island drawers to a dog food bin, but with room under the sink the fourth bin is perfect for his grub. Thanks to a slightly off centered plumbing trap, the 4 bins fit perfectly in the space. This resulted in a mini celebration dance on my part, because of course things never fit perfectly. When I showed Kyle the setup, I got a one line, “sweet”, before he turned back to whatever he was doing.
(He was probably just internalizing his elation.) Anyway, the pull-out tracks were easy to install – they have two stationary cross bars that get screwed to the cabinet base and that’s pretty much it. The small space between (and in front of the trap) is just big enough to hold detergent, trash and compost bags and a few essentials cleaners (have you seen Bon Ami’s new retro? For now I’m using a wire basket that I had lying around, but I’d like to get something slightly deeper and with dividers (more compartmentalization, yes!). So there you have it. No more unsightly trash cans or dog food containers out in the open. So c’mon, fess up – who else has a dirty (but well-organized) secret to share?
I know you’re out there. It’s been a whirlwind last couple of weeks but we got the house finished (enough), made multiple trips to and from the airport and had a big 30th birthday party on Saturday night.
We just dropped the last sister off for her red-eye back to D.C. And the house is quiet again. There is a pile of wrapping paper on the floor, blankets and pillows stacked up on the couch and a sink full of dishes that need to be washed. And it’s great – it finally feels like a home. We have lots more photos to share, but here are a few from Saturday night. My sisters pulled together and made most of the food for the party.
As the four of us stood around the new island talking and prepping, I couldnt’ help but think, this is what it’s all about. This is why we wanted an open, inviting kitchen with a big work surface. I think we all envision pretty “after” pictures with every piece of fruit perfectly staged, but I sorta love this version too. So we don’t have the flooring in and the cabinets aren’t finished, but that didn’t stop everyone from having a good time.
And thanks to the intermittent heavy rain, we fit about 30 people in our house – another first for sure! Kyle thoughtfully moved the cake as far away from the smoke detector as possible. Fortunately, I got them all in one breath. Two thumbs up for sorta kinda meeting our deadline. We’ll have a proper housewarming event when it’s all done. I think it will be a Christmas party.
Speaking of, we still have lots to do but I’m thinking of transitioning away from the weekly progress reports. Since our remaining tasks will likely be tackled on a project by project basis (barn doors, loft ladder, flooring, etc.) I’d like to do specific posts that go from start to finish within a single post. You were getting tired of posts about electrical work? Yeah, us too. Bring on the fun stuff! Last week’s to-do list took a bit of a detour from framing, but we still made some good progress.
It was definitely one of those weeks where the tasks were more detail-oriented and thus took more time. Also, thanks to our recent decision to add the loft, there was a good deal of thinking, designing and number crunching going on. So let’s pick up where we left off: 1. After we painted the first two sheets of MDO, we were able to install them and give ourselves enough space to lay out and paint the remaining sheets. One huge advantage of remodeling a larger space is that you can actually work in it.
Any guesses as to what this is? Our new living room ceiling! It was so exciting to get a sense of the finished space! We knew we were taking a risk to pre-paint the MDO, but it paid off and Kyle and I were very, very gentle as we hoisted them up into place and screwed them to the joists. The metal strip in the middle is an aluminum T that hides the inevitable seam between panels.
We considered painting it white but right now we might just rock the exposed look. We’re planning on some linear, cable lighting so it might just work. As a result of the new ceiling, we also have a new loft space (sort of). We still have to build the enclosing walls and light well over the basement stiar. It will certainly be cozy (it’s only about 6′-0″ at the ridge), but we’ve already come up with all sorts of ways to use the space.
Here’s the view as you’re coming up into the space. In addition to framing out the surrounding walls and light well, we’ll need to move more insulation (ughh) and lay down more plywood in the area to the right. Kyle mowed the lawn! (Which looks 100x better even with the giant clumps of cut grass.) 4. With the living room ceiling DONE, we moved our work table (which is just our dining room table with a sheet of plywood over it) and stored our kitchen cabinets underneath.
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And just like the good people at IKEA advised us, I aligned all the SKU numbers to (hopefully) make the install process go a bit smoother. Last but not least, I talked Kyle into installing the dishwasher last weekend. Hand washing dishes is an inconvenience in itself, but hand washing dishes in your bathtub is something entirely different. I lasted 5 weeks. When we gutted our bathroom in ’08, all the plumbing had to be replaced. Since the bathroom was a majority of the plumbing we went ahead and replaced all of the supply and drain/waste/vent lines and stubbed out for the future kitchen sink and dishwasher.
Word to the wise, anytime you have an opportunity to plan ahead for future projects, DO IT! You will thank yourselves. So yesterday Kyle got to work installing the new supply and drain lines that drop down into the short basement and tie into the main lines. This step may have been a bit out of sequence, but we figured there really wasn’t any drawback to doing it now (even though we won’t have cabinets or a sink for some time). Oh, and there was some electrical work too. Hard to believe this was our old back porch!
So the stainless steel panel could use a good cleaning, but she works! We ran a load last night and the first thing I did this morning was open the dishwasher to stare lovingly at all the clean dishes. The plumbing to the right is for the new kitchen sink (the flexible gray hose is the drain line coming form the dishwasher). The red cap covers the sink drain so no debris falls in and the whitish cap behind is an air admittance valve (which replaces the need for a through-the-roof vent).
Although the photo is too dark to see, the hot and cold pex lines and valves are also installed so when it comes time to install the sink and faucet – plug and play! So that’s it for last week!
This week we’ll be picking up some more lumber and turning our focus back to rough framing. With no real deadline to finish this project (besides my b-day in Septemberwhich seems like so far away!), we didn’t sit down and hash out a week-by-week schedule like we’ve done for other endeavors. And it’s a good thing too, because we know it can be hard to adhere to schedules created under ideal circumstances. Take last week for example – things were off to a good start and by Wednesday night Kyle had installed all of the new subfloor in the old kitchen and porch space! Then he caught a stomach virus.
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We were able to get a few things done over the weekend, but it wasn’t the marathon weekend we had been planning on. Plus, yesterday was gorgeous – the kind of day where you can literally taste summer (the ice cream may have helped).
Which had us thinkingwe should really try to get a lot done before the warmer weather is here to stay (which is still a few months away here in temperate Seattle). But back to the weekly re-cap: 1. Kyle installed most of the 1/2″ plywood subfloor.
This job was made 100x easier by the purchase of a screw gun. A tool well worth the modest price tag, it had us saying, “how did we not already own this??”. And because we’re geeky architects, Kyle laid out different panel configurations in cad to determine which would be the most efficient use of materials. 2. And now that we no longer have a sink on this wall, Kyle busted out all the old galvanized pipe and installed new ABS vent pipe connecting to the washing machine in the basement.
I pulled all the nails out of the living room joists so they could be sanded. I also yanked or hammered in most of the nails at exposed walls. Kyle then sanded the bottoms of all the joists and a few of the sides, which is not on our “fun to do!” list. To be continued Here’s a before and after shot, they do clean up nice! We also marked off the location for the kitchen cabinets and island (enhanced via Photoshop).
We then moved the refrigerator and dishwasher to their future homesmainly to get them out of the way of flying sawdust and also to get a feel for what the space will be like. We also decided we should go ahead hook up the dishwasher soon. I miss you dishwasher. Finally, we worked on the loft design and came up with some strategies to deal with thermal convection.
We’ll cover that in a separate post this week. And in life-without-a-kitchen news, we’re surviving! We’re eating out a little more than usual, but we’ve come up with some microwave-friendly meals that are relatively healthy. So far, the favorite is frozen Amy’s mac’n’cheese with a bag salad. We’ve had it at least once a weekand we may have it again tonight.
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You should now see the program downloading to your computer. Download time will depend on your internet speed. Once the program has downloaded, open the download drop down menu. Your install window might open behind your browser window.
The finder window should contain the plug-in NP2020PlayerIKEA. Drag the NP2020PlayerIKEA.plugin icon on top of the Internet plug-ins folder in order to copy it there. If administrator rights are required to install plug-ins you might need to ‘Authenticate’ and then enter the administrator username and password for your computer. If the user has previously installed plugin then it prompts a message to replace. Click on “Replace” button. In order to complete the installation you must restart your browser, therefore close your browser completely (Command-Q) and then re-launch it.
The IKEA Home Planner should now work! Important info: Remember to bring your username and password with you to the store. You can’t access your saved kitchen drawings without it. As a security measure, we don’t accept kitchen drawings on CD, USB memory sticks, etc. In the IKEA store.
This is a pretty boring post but just had to share. With our new baby on the way we needed to think about rearranging bedrooms to accommodate a nursery. The rooms are 3x3m with furniture (drum kit and single trundle bed) so didn't have a heap of room for storage - enter IKEA. We found the IKEA PAX Komplement range and chose 3x 1m storage units (basically a carcass of a wardrobe) and added shelves, clothes rails etc and the results were fantastic. It just happened to fit absolutely millimetre perfect with minimal disruption to anything else in the room. I would definitely recommend people look at this option if they are looking for a relatively cheap customizable storage system - it is great.
(sorry for the photos - not much room to get far enough away for a decent shot). Hey Mcreidy, We are considering the PAX system for wardrobes in our new home but I was concerned about the quality (flimsy?) and how long it takes to put together. Can you please let me know your thoughts on these 2 questions. It does seem like a great option considering the cabinet maker and wrdrobe system people want to charge in excesss of $1000.
The Pax option seems to come out for what we need at only about $600. Hey gweluphome. The cabinets are very solid and do not seem to be a cheap option at all. We went for the oak finish - there are heaps of others as well though.
Putting them together was a piece of cake - I don't consider myself to be all that handy and I had no dramas at all. The best thing about this system is that it is totally customizable - adding shelves, drawers, hangers etc. I can't say enough good things about them GOOD LUCK. Are you willing to tell how much you spent? (I'm just being lazy.) It looks great and might be a solution for our wardrobes in the new house.
Judie Sure no problems. We bought the following: 3x 100x58x236 oak cupboards 4x pair of shelves (so 8 in total) 1x clothes rail TOTAL COST - $840.00inc GST There is a great room planner on the IKEA website that lets you plan out your room i exact measurements, then add the desired products - it then gives you a shopping list with accurate pricing - definitely check it out. My husband and I have just costed our walk in robe using the Ikea online tool thingo. We are going to be spending a fortune, but we think it'll look great and be well worth it! Finally somewhere to store all my shoes and handbags! - PAX wardrobe 100x58x236 $209.00 x 8 - Komplement clothes rail 100cm $10.00 x 4 - Komplement trouser hanger rail 100cm $50.00 x 2 - Komplement shoe organiser 100x58cm $80.00 x 3 - Komplement wire baskets 100x58x16xm $30.00 x 14 - PAX shelves 100x58cm 2pk $40.00 x 8 - Stave 70x160cm oak mirror $85.00 TOTAL FITOUT COST FOR WARDROBE = $2877.00 yikes.
I will do They charged about $800 for the built-in I had installed in one of the rooms we've finished. Absolutely top notch quality - all shelves are routed in, one one hand it stops us being able to modify the height of the shelves, but the end result is a fabulous sturdy wardrobe. It has 4 sections 1) full length hanging 2) half height hanging with 4 draws below 3) full height of shelves 4) double half height hanging With the shelf above the whole lot and 2 sliding doors. But ones I can compare apples with apples for the new walk-in - I'll let you all know.