Chairs O' Plenty!

Well, got some new chairs for the place. I've needed some key things and these work out perfectly. Lucky my buddy Nate picked me up the sweet directors chair! I never had anywhere for anyone to sit when in my office so now he is covered, thank Nate. Next is bright red gamers chair! Just showed up on the front porch today and couldn't be happier. I've needed a good chair to kick back on when de-stressing from work and playing some video games. Definitely a necessity!

Not much more is going to be done on the house this coming week cause I have a lot of work coming and I'll be out of town for a couple days but hoping to start painting the inside soon! If we could only agree on colors, I WANT RED IN THE LIVING ROOM!

Here's an extra shot of the cat playing in the box my game chair showed up in.

SF-51C

Here's the latest video!

SF-51C from FreeformPost on Vimeo.

SF-51C - COMING SOON!

New movie I shot this weekend at a missile site in the highlands of Pacifica.

Door and Stiars - Before and After

So again, I've been slacking on updating due to another video. I'll be posting that here soon as well but at least wanted to update on the stairs. They are basically finished minus a few minor touchups that probably only I would notice. Here's the before and after:







Now if we could get rid of that nasty tile and hand railing we might be in business!

Cherry tree is blooming

All of a sudden all our plants and grass has started to grow like crazy. Nice to see some of these trees with some green on them. Looks like I have to mow the lawn every week from now on.

Kitchen pics

Here are a couple of pics of the kitchen per request. Now it's almost time to come down and see in person, you know who you are!

Carnival By The Sea!

Carnival By The Sea from FreeformPost on Vimeo.

Well, the video is finally complete. Now it's time to get back to work on the house. Enjoy!

Dart Board is now up

Well, it's a minor thing but at least it's something. I finally got my dart board up in the garage. It's in a temperately spot right now until I know where will be a good place will be to keep it permanently. Then I can get all the right measurements to get it up to regulation, but for now its nice to have. My trusty dart board has followed me around a bit and not had any use so I'm glad to see it back in action.

And yes, I am that accurate, why else would I snap that shot!

Carnival Editing....

Again no progress on the house this week. I've been deep into this carnival project. I'm hoping to get out as soon as possible, cause I gotta get back to working around the house. We are just about done with the stairs, think it only needs one last sand and paint then off comes the tape. We are starting to think more and more about keeping the wood on the side wall of the entry. Maybe we can make it work for us, it's starting to grow on me.

Anyway, I'm hoping to get back to work soon so I can go back to having this blog about the house, not my side projects! Here's a couple of pics from he shoot:

Silhouette from the hill above:



Havin' fun makin' money:


Chillin':


Working that new slider:


More to come soon!

Carnival Delay.....

Related to the house, no. Keeping me from doing work on the house, yes. I figured that since it is keeping me from doing the work I want to around the house I'd make a post out of it.

It's been a few days but we have been busy on another project. The carnival came into town over the weekend and figure we'd take the opportunity to try and make a little movie out of it. I've been looking for something to shoot recently with my camera and this seemed like it could be a good for some pretty visuals and interesting people. The last 3 days or so I have been out shooting at night with some friends. I just got back from the last round of pick up shots and am in the middle of transferring over all the footage to see what I got. I feel that between Nate, Mark, and myself, that we all came back with some nice footage. Now comes the time to figure out how to make it into something. Hoping to have something put together within the month. Gotta make myself a deadline or else I won't finish it!

painting the stairs

Well, it was yet another long night with the stairs. I spent most my time last night just taping off all the stairs properly. Tonight I finished taping, patching some of the bigger holes, and then applying the first coat of primer. Taking a break now, but want to get one more coat on so I can hopefully finish up the painting for good tomorrow. Seems like it's taking me forever!

Good Morning!

Well, it was such a nice morning I felt like I had to try and capture some of it. This is a pic from outside our bedroom window, I get to wake up to this every morning. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't quit capture it all but as least it's something. It has been really nice waking up to these great views. Puts me in a much better mindset to start the day, especially cause I can't really sleep in anymore. When are we going to put up those blinds? Not sure if I really want them anymore.

Recap #2 "Ceiling Mud"

This is a stolen pic, but I had to post it for the people that don't have Facebook. This pic is basically showing off the worst job in the world, mudding the ceiling! It seems like we were doing this for at least 10 hours and by the end I could hardly lift my arm above shoulder level. We had no clue what the hell we were doing, but you wouldn't know it when you saw the finished product. We did about as good of a job as I could of asked for. Thanks to Nate for hanging in there on the worst day to have offered help, he pulled the short straw that day. I never want to do that again.

Another day, more jobs complete

Today was an eventful day. We set out to take care of a lot of things and almost got to them all. First thing for Amanda was to start prepping for some serious painting. She took care of the inside of our front door and trim. It was originally a really dark ugly wood color. I'll post some before and afters once everything is cleaned up and dry. After that she started on priming and painting the stairs as well. Looking forward to having those done cause they look pretty ghetto right now and it's the first thing you see when you walk in either door. It's going to feel good to have most of the entryway done.

While Amanda was painting I took care of the lawn stuff, made a Home Depot run, hung a rack for her to dry clothes on, fixed the screen door rollers, and silenced a squeaky door hinge. Who would have thought that chores around the house could be so fun.

Will try to post more as we finish up this week. But in the mean time, here's Amanda at work.

My first mower

Got my handy dandy lawn mower all put together and set out to tackle the overgrown lawn. Figured I'd try and old school mower to see how she handles.

Action Shot!


Goober at the helm:


It took me 2 separate passes to get it all chopped down to size. It was REALLY long! Also, found that I now need to pick up a weed eater/edger of some sort to take care of those tricky hard to reach areas. After I was all done with the trim, I tried my hand at fertilizing. Not sure if I did it right so we'll see what happens.

Over all, it was fun and a now my grass can grow back healthy.

Welcome to the Jungle!

The lawn has gotten so long since we took over the house. Unfortunately we couldn't do anything about it because we didn't have a lawn mower. Last night, that all changed. Time to break out the mower and go to town!

Living room colors

Can't decide on which colors to go with for the living room. Any of these strike your fancy?

Broken Office

One day my office will be complete, that will be a happy day for me. I thought it might be ready a bit sooner but I only have myself to blame. One thing led to another and well, this is all that's left for now.

Another look back....."MOLD OFFICE"

Taking another look back at our first week we got the house, we tore through a bunch of stuff to help prep before the move in. One of those tasks was finding the source of the moldy smell down in what will eventually become my office one day. Here's what I found!

Cats still getting settled

Well, Rosco is getting pretty comfortable his new house but Lucy on the other hand isn't. When she does venture out she gets scared back into the room if the ceiling fan is going. Any little sound sets her right back to her favorite spot, under the sheets!

Celebrating the night

On our second night we decided to celebrate with a nice fire and glass of champagne. Good way to chill out after a long day.

Recap #1

Figured I'd try and play catchup tonight on some of the activities over the last couple of days. I think I'll be doing this from time to time, it's hard to cover everything that is happening right now.

Here's a couple more pics of us trying to figure out how to set up the place.




A long living room makes it hard to find a good layout.


Amanda hanging the first picture. Actually, this is a fake, it was already hung earlier in the day. Who cares, we won't remember years down the road.


Test run at my temporary office setup, I think this might work.

Will update more as I can.

First BBQ

Had our first grill in the new place after another long day of unpacking and setting up stuff. The cats have been having a hard time adjusting, but Rosco looks like he's become much more comfortable now that dinner is ready!