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| They installed brackets in the medicine cabinet to install shelves |
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| The door is installed! |
Showing posts with label Lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lights. Show all posts
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Bathroom Progress
Barrett finally came out last Friday and finished grouting the bathroom tile. I should have taken photos, but I didn't have my camera with me. I think there are a couple more tiles I'd like to have him adjust, but for the most part, he's done. FINALLY. It has been a long haul on this project.
This week Jeff and Eric installed the lights on either side of the medicine cabinet, the brackets for the shelves in the medicine cabinet and they hung the door.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
1910 style LED lightbulbs
OK, let's try this again. I was looking for Edison style LED lightbulbs for our historic light fixtures. I did a search in Amazon and found some really great ones. But, unfortunately, I didn't realize my search results also included a bunch of incandescent bulbs and I ordered some by mistake. Thanks to a more observant reader, my mistake was discovered before I received my order and I was able to return the wrong bulbs before I opened the box. It cost me $8.45 in shipping, but that is just the cost of not checking all the details before hitting that order button.
I have since done another, more careful search, and I will share what I have found:
They claim to be based on a 1910 style; our house is 1912. These would be perfect for all our open lights in the living areas that currently have compact fluorescents (ugly and definitely not period looking).
I have since done another, more careful search, and I will share what I have found:
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| LED Vintage Filament Bulb, ST19 Edison Style, 4W to Replace 40W Incandescent Bulb, Super Warm White. I love this one, but tragically it is longer than our light fixture shades. |
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| LED Filament Bulb,VCE® LED Edison Bulb 4W to Replace Incandescent 40W Bulb,Soft White 2700K-6 PACK |
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| Leadleds E27 LED Filament Light Bulb Lamp Nostalgic Edison Style E27 4W to Replace 40W Incandescent Bulb Soft White 360° Beam Angle |
They claim to be based on a 1910 style; our house is 1912. These would be perfect for all our open lights in the living areas that currently have compact fluorescents (ugly and definitely not period looking).
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Dining Room After Photos
We're having a friend drop by this evening for a visit which finally proved to be enough motivation to clean up the dining room. Unfortunately, the light is not good today, so the colors do not look great. But at least the room is finally clean!
The light fixture is the Cascade from Rejuvenation. We paid extra to get the uplights wired separate from the downlights and we had the electrician install two switches for it.
This is how the room looked when we bought the house last year.
For fun, here are a couple of photos during the restoration process again:
The light fixture is the Cascade from Rejuvenation. We paid extra to get the uplights wired separate from the downlights and we had the electrician install two switches for it.
This is how the room looked when we bought the house last year.
For fun, here are a couple of photos during the restoration process again:
Friday, August 26, 2011
Kitchen is Done!!
Except for one vent cover in the toe kick and swapping out a couple of chrome hinges, the kitchen is done!! 
Well, OK, we still have to make the leaded glass panels for this one cabinet. We have a plan, we have the glass, we're just waiting for the leaded glass class in September.
We LOVE the soapstone counters!
For those who don't recall, here is how it looked before the remodel.
Well, OK, we still have to make the leaded glass panels for this one cabinet. We have a plan, we have the glass, we're just waiting for the leaded glass class in September.
We LOVE the soapstone counters!
For those who don't recall, here is how it looked before the remodel.
If you want to know about products/materials we used, there is a post about them here.
Kitchen Resources
For those who are interested, we are sharing information about where we obtained the materials used in our kitchen remodel. Much of this information is found in individual posts, but we include it here in one post for convenience.
The cabinets were made by WoodWorks Inc. in Oregon City. They were made from FSC-certified flat-sawn douglas fir from a fallen tree obtained from the Mountain Dale West girl scout camp in North Plains.
The schoolhouse lights and cup pulls were purchased from Rejuvenation. The turn latches were purchased from House of Antique Hardware.
The soapstone slabs were obtained from Teresina Soapstone in Roseville, California who shipped them up to Portland for us. The folks at Teresina were really great to work with. They sent us large samples at no charge and were awesome at communication. The local soapstone fabricator was Portland MarbleWorks. They built the sink and installed the countertops.
The range was made by Blue Star. It is a 36" RNB Residential Nova Series. You can choose from 190 colors! We purchased it, along with the other appliances, from BASCO in Portland.
The copper hood was made by Art of Rain. It was built to fit over the Vent-a-Hood liner.
The bridge faucet was made by Newport Brass.
The dishwasher was made by Miele; it is a Diamond G 5975 SCVi. We chose this model because it would accept a wood panel and the controls are on the top edge and not visible when the door is shut.
The refrigerator is a Sub-Zero; a 36" wide counter-depth BI-36UO. We really would have liked to get a bigger frig, but there just wasn't room in our small kitchen. The custom panel was made by our cabinet maker.
The pot rack was made by Yardley Forge. Steve made custom attachment hangers for us, because his standard length didn't work for our situation. He was really nice to work with.
The reproduction subway tile was made by Subway Ceramics. It was installed by Hawthorne Tile. The tile is grouted with dark gray grout.
All of the interior paint colors were chosen from the Sherwin Williams Arts & Crafts paint palettes.
The wood was finished with two coats of stain. The first coat of stain was Mohawk Wiping Wood Stain in Red Mahogany. The second coat was Wood Kote Jel'd Stain in Cherry color. Then the woodwork downstairs was finished with Zinsser Shellac.
We believe the windows were made by Marvin. They are clad with douglas fir on the interior, evergreen aluminum on the exterior.
The hardwood floors were finished first with low-VOC Bona DTS (Deep Tone Sealer) then with two coats of Bona Traffic. Our flooring contractor was Kip's Hardwood Floors.
Sharon believes most of the fir mouldings were purchased from Rejuvenation, but they were purchased and installed by our contractor, Craftsman Design & Renovation.
The cabinets were made by WoodWorks Inc. in Oregon City. They were made from FSC-certified flat-sawn douglas fir from a fallen tree obtained from the Mountain Dale West girl scout camp in North Plains.
The schoolhouse lights and cup pulls were purchased from Rejuvenation. The turn latches were purchased from House of Antique Hardware.
The soapstone slabs were obtained from Teresina Soapstone in Roseville, California who shipped them up to Portland for us. The folks at Teresina were really great to work with. They sent us large samples at no charge and were awesome at communication. The local soapstone fabricator was Portland MarbleWorks. They built the sink and installed the countertops.
The range was made by Blue Star. It is a 36" RNB Residential Nova Series. You can choose from 190 colors! We purchased it, along with the other appliances, from BASCO in Portland.
The copper hood was made by Art of Rain. It was built to fit over the Vent-a-Hood liner.
The bridge faucet was made by Newport Brass.
The dishwasher was made by Miele; it is a Diamond G 5975 SCVi. We chose this model because it would accept a wood panel and the controls are on the top edge and not visible when the door is shut.
The refrigerator is a Sub-Zero; a 36" wide counter-depth BI-36UO. We really would have liked to get a bigger frig, but there just wasn't room in our small kitchen. The custom panel was made by our cabinet maker.
The pot rack was made by Yardley Forge. Steve made custom attachment hangers for us, because his standard length didn't work for our situation. He was really nice to work with.
The reproduction subway tile was made by Subway Ceramics. It was installed by Hawthorne Tile. The tile is grouted with dark gray grout.
All of the interior paint colors were chosen from the Sherwin Williams Arts & Crafts paint palettes.
The wood was finished with two coats of stain. The first coat of stain was Mohawk Wiping Wood Stain in Red Mahogany. The second coat was Wood Kote Jel'd Stain in Cherry color. Then the woodwork downstairs was finished with Zinsser Shellac.
We believe the windows were made by Marvin. They are clad with douglas fir on the interior, evergreen aluminum on the exterior.
The hardwood floors were finished first with low-VOC Bona DTS (Deep Tone Sealer) then with two coats of Bona Traffic. Our flooring contractor was Kip's Hardwood Floors.
Sharon believes most of the fir mouldings were purchased from Rejuvenation, but they were purchased and installed by our contractor, Craftsman Design & Renovation.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
More Pretties!
The cabinet-maker came by today to install more pieces. We had a nook in a cabinet that didn't work very well with a door because of the crown moulding on the doorway, so we decided to leave it open and install a bottle rack. That went in today. It's an usual shape because we modeled it off a stained glass panel we finally picked for the rest of the built-ins.
He also installed the brackets and beadboard backing on the small cabinet near the door. Those brackets were modeled off a bracket on our front porch. The wires hanging are for undercabinet lighting.
The electricians also got started on installing lights today. Here are two of the Arroyo Craftsman exterior lights. These are from their mission line in the raw copper finish.
He also installed the brackets and beadboard backing on the small cabinet near the door. Those brackets were modeled off a bracket on our front porch. The wires hanging are for undercabinet lighting.
The electricians also got started on installing lights today. Here are two of the Arroyo Craftsman exterior lights. These are from their mission line in the raw copper finish.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Rejuvenation Boxes Don't Stack
Sharon thought she would share a complaint / rant about ordering lights from Rejuvenation. Their boxing of orders is funky. They obsessively bubble the large boxes but just pack the fixtures loose and the shades are put in smaller boxes with no internal wrap or padding. And their shade boxes are not taped shut; they are closed with the flaps interleaved, so their ends are not flat and can be slightly "pointed."
We bought 21 lights and 35 shades ($5K worth) from them, so we had a not inconsiderable pile. So when we went through our order, as directed by our contractor, it shouldn't be totally surprising we decided to make stacks of like-size boxes so we could make an accurate count. Well, don't. This is the result from a 2-box high stack. That's the fastest $42 we've wasted today!
Update a week later: Our awesome kitchen designer, Chelly, fixed it for us. She exchanged the broken globe for a new one so we don't have to eat this expense. We still have several issues with Rejuvenation's customer service, but we are, for the most part, happy with their lights.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Exterior Lighting
We had originally planned to order our exterior lighting from Rejuvenation, but our awesome electrician recommended a couple different companies which he said made high quality fixtures based on his experience installing them for earlier jobs: Minka Lighting and Arroyo Craftsman.
So Sharon cruised around the internet and looked for options made by those companies. A visit to their website convinced us Arroyo Craftsman was the right choice: "Each Arroyo Craftsman product is manufactured in our plant in Baldwin Park, California. Each Arroyo Craftsman fixture is handcrafted by American artisans."
Sharon chose the Mission line made by Arroyo Craftsman. They were relatively affordable (especially compared to the Rejuvenation options) and we could use standard screw-in CFL bulbs. We chose the raw copper finish (not the finishes shown in these pictures) with the Gold White Iridescent Glass. We ordered them from LightingDirect.com which says they're special order and will take 4-6 weeks for delivery. We'll report back on our success.
We are also eliminating our mailbox slot which leaks exterior cold/heat so we ordered a copper mailbox.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Latest Kitchen Plan
We got the latest kitchen design from Craftsman Design and Renovation last week. Most of the hardware and small details have been fixed in the drawings, though we're still working on the tile design. All of the cabinets will be made out of stained FSC-certified douglas fir and the base cabinets will have a piece of trim, a shoe molding, that reaches down to the floor and will make them look more period. The countertop and sink are going to be made of Minas Verde soapstone (which we've already had shipped from California).
Here are drawings, in clockwise order. This first diagram is the overall floor plan of the kitchen and adjacent ½ bath and pantry closet.
This is the "pantry wall" facing away from the sink towards the back wall. This wall will be most visible and we're doing our best to make this look as period as possible. The cabinet on the left will be built in a period style with glass and beadboard backing.
This is the side wall, with the exterior window. We're getting a copper hood made and we're pretty excited. We're also still trying to work out the details of the tile behind the range; we may buy some custom arts & crafts-style tiles to go along with our reproduction subway tiles. We are using a fairly modern looking range; a Blue Star that Jeff really wants.
This is facing the sink, which will overlook the backyard after the remodel. (The current sink looks out the side and we get to stare at the side of our neighbor's house while doing dishes.) We decided to go with a farmhouse-style sink because we're having one made out of matching soapstone. Farmhouse sinks are not actually period for the 1910's era, they were earlier, but this is another one of those compromises we're making because we like it. =) We're getting an antique-style bridge faucet. Also, the integrated Miele dishwasher is to the right of the sink and will have a panel to hopefully help disguise it.
This is facing the refrigerator. We're getting a Sub-Zero refrigerator which will be fitted with wood panels to help disguise the fact that it's a great big appliance. The microwave is to the left of the refrigerator, and is going to be below the counter. Presumably guests will only see the microwave if they come all the way into the kitchen.
For the cabinet hardware, we are going with House of Antique Hardware's bin cup pull and cupboard latch.
The light fixtures in the kitchen are from Rejuvenation—the Jefferson and the Rose City. We're getting closed-shade lights because we're likely to use funky-looking light bulbs—either CFLs or LEDs, when they become available.
Here are drawings, in clockwise order. This first diagram is the overall floor plan of the kitchen and adjacent ½ bath and pantry closet.
This is the "pantry wall" facing away from the sink towards the back wall. This wall will be most visible and we're doing our best to make this look as period as possible. The cabinet on the left will be built in a period style with glass and beadboard backing.
This is the side wall, with the exterior window. We're getting a copper hood made and we're pretty excited. We're also still trying to work out the details of the tile behind the range; we may buy some custom arts & crafts-style tiles to go along with our reproduction subway tiles. We are using a fairly modern looking range; a Blue Star that Jeff really wants.
This is facing the sink, which will overlook the backyard after the remodel. (The current sink looks out the side and we get to stare at the side of our neighbor's house while doing dishes.) We decided to go with a farmhouse-style sink because we're having one made out of matching soapstone. Farmhouse sinks are not actually period for the 1910's era, they were earlier, but this is another one of those compromises we're making because we like it. =) We're getting an antique-style bridge faucet. Also, the integrated Miele dishwasher is to the right of the sink and will have a panel to hopefully help disguise it.
This is facing the refrigerator. We're getting a Sub-Zero refrigerator which will be fitted with wood panels to help disguise the fact that it's a great big appliance. The microwave is to the left of the refrigerator, and is going to be below the counter. Presumably guests will only see the microwave if they come all the way into the kitchen.
For the cabinet hardware, we are going with House of Antique Hardware's bin cup pull and cupboard latch.
The light fixtures in the kitchen are from Rejuvenation—the Jefferson and the Rose City. We're getting closed-shade lights because we're likely to use funky-looking light bulbs—either CFLs or LEDs, when they become available.
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