Archive for the ‘House’ Category

Warning – Utilities in Puerto Rico are expensive! Every year Puerto Rico produces 20.92 billion kWh of electricity and we use it all! It’s crazy, power bills are way more expensive than the bills we got in California before we moved here and the average income in Puerto Rico is $16,300 a year with a [...]

Tags: Cows, Furniture, Porch, Sydney

It has been a great past couple of weeks. Work has been really busy for both Summer and I. The surf has been mediocre after an insane couple of months and Summer and I have fallen into a great schedule with Sydney. The schedule thing is VERY important. It gives both Summer and I time [...]

We have all kinds of pictures of the house through different stages of construction, but they all focus on the house. More than ever, Summer and I are learning that a house is just a house, it becomes a home over the years you live there, customize things, learn your neighborhood and work the dirt. [...]

Tags: Construction, Gym, Mirrors, Paint

I can hardly believe it, but the gym in our house is finally done! While we were in San Diego in Sept/October, we had the ceilings put in downstairs so when we got home, I started working on the gym since I am anxious to get back into shape after being pregnant and it sure [...]

Tags: Construction, Downstairs, Electric, Lighting, Offices

I don’t know which is the bigger accomplishment, getting the ceilings done downstairs or blogging about it! Summer and I have been so busy with work and Sydney that we haven’t had time to post the pictures of the soffit work and drywall on the ceilings downstairs. Aside from that, it has been hectic trying [...]

I spent most of my youth in South Jersey, but remember living in Vermont as a kid. I was too young to have chores, but I remember my dad and I picking up wood for our fire place in our old Volkswagon bus and also taking our trash to the dump. We lived about 15 [...]

Remember back in February of last year, when we finally found and ordered our awesome mahogany interiors doors? Well, after a year of Stefan calling the door store and being told that the doors arn’t all in yet or to call back when someone spoke English or that some of the doors we ordered will [...]

I didn’t realize, and I’m sure most first time home buyers and Do It Youselfers don’t realize how much coin it actually takes to build a house; kitchen cabinets, tile, grout, skilled labor, treated wood, finishing wood, counter tops, appliances, wiring, lighting, fans, floors, locks, driveways, furniture…… Summer and I are managing the expensive work [...]

Jerry and I have been doing some rock work around the house (more on that later) and some other work so we have been hanging out quite a bit. Last week, we took a break to walk up and check out some property that may be going on the market in the next couple of [...]

Having 18 foot ceiling in our house is great…until the light bulbs all burn out! Then we have to buy a $300 ladder in order to change a $0.50 light bulb. True story. Haha.