"She did a good job, too!"

"See https://plus.google.com/112065430692128821190/posts/R1JFJZev15P"

"To quote my son. "I miss Hawaiiiiiiii""

"Yes. It was a huge project. No way could we have done all the work ourselves. Even acting as our own general contractor, and coordinating the subcontractors themselves, would have been way beyond us."

"It looks great. Did you hire a contractor to do that?"

"No, we don't really have a window in the shower. That's a reflection off the door."

"It all looks great!"

"Yes, although it turns out that one of the light fixtures runs into two of the upper cabinets. I think we're going to solve that by raising the light fixtures, which is not an ideal solution, but better than anything else we can think of."

"Oooh, nice!"

"Nice to see the color of the cabinets against the beam color. It looks about right -- not a huge contrast, but not a near miss, either."

"Some of these are tall kitchen units and some of them are bookcases that will go on the other side of the dividing wall between the kitchen and the living room."

"Anyone want it? It's not fancy, but it works. Kenmore brand. Model #66513842K601, as far as I can tell."

"Although that turns out to be more complicated than it might seem at first sight because some of the pipes were abandoned and unused. "

"This photo is more interesting than it looks. The major activity of the day was a survey with ground-penetrating radar, to find out exactly where our radiant heating pipes were."

"Palo Alto has similar rules. We're installing a hanging fireplace that burns alcohol and doesn't need a vent. We hope. The company that makes the fireplace is being sluggish about providing all the information we need to install it legally."