tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62717552024-03-14T08:04:24.737-07:00DAHLIA HOUSEA journal of all the happenings as we restore our 1895 Victorian into a bed and breakfast.Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-84466830257143123422014-07-21T20:54:00.000-07:002014-07-21T20:57:53.408-07:00
The continuing saga of the leaky shower.....
We thought we had the problem solved but the next couple who stayed here took showers and low and behold.....we had water running downstairs again......what the ? Thought we had it fixed with the caulking! So Brian went up and started checking all of the valves and when he turned on the rain shower the water came out over the Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-27443891664919824532014-07-14T08:37:00.001-07:002014-07-21T20:58:35.112-07:00
Funny story!?
Last week when we had some guests here, we noticed water dripping from our bathroom door jam downstairs. We realized someone was taking a shower upstairs and something was leaking! Ack! Went and got buckets and held our breath that the upstairs bathroom was not flooding. Well no one came downstairs complaining so we figured it must be the drain.....and then the Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-59579577731384476452014-07-10T21:20:00.001-07:002014-07-10T21:20:09.631-07:00
Well it has been so eventful that I have not had time to write. As I sit here in the kitchen using my laptop, we have very nice guests upstairs in the Pillar Rock room from Atlanta, Georgia. We have been open since April 15th and have had people from Maine, Colorado, Connecticut and of course from Washington and Oregon also. What a hoot it has been so far. We are really enjoying it.
Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-88886454078957957582014-01-06T21:43:00.001-08:002014-01-06T21:44:32.107-08:00Hello 2014!
Well the holidays are over once again and it's time to get back to work. We haven't done much on the house except maintenance and decorating. I am working on getting old family photos up and finishing the Military wall. Still need to find a few more pictures. Oh and the never ending job of cleaning the office!
I did get our first newsletter done and will attach it here. Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-87080118436101434642013-11-15T10:37:00.000-08:002013-11-15T10:37:31.754-08:00
We are pretty much finished with the retaining wall along the front of the house. Whew what a job. Planted some grasses and daffodils and Irish moss, along with a few small trees and shrubs. It still looks a bit bare but hopefully by spring it will fill in a bit. Still have the corner area by the main driveway to landscape, hope to get started on it soon.
Brian has been on the Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-11066532675307796322013-09-13T11:50:00.000-07:002013-09-13T13:35:27.835-07:00
We have been busy on the out buildings. Now that the house is done, we have more time to concentrate on the landscaping and the garages. Had a new garage door installed on the small garage and took off the old metal siding and put up shingles to match the door. Looks NICE! We can even park the car in the garage.
Now we are working on the big garage, got it about half Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-45928375812992835272013-08-27T22:02:00.002-07:002013-08-27T22:02:49.979-07:00We did it! We are an official B&B
Where do I start? We have done so much since my last post in May. It's been too busy to put it all down on paper. I guess I will just list all of the projects we have finished.
The Pillar rock Room is done, new mattress, box spring and sheets. It is all decorated and ready for guests.
We finished the railings and the front deck, looks so fresh and clean
Hung up more Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-14669793867692721012013-05-17T20:43:00.000-07:002013-05-17T20:45:14.957-07:00Back to work.....
Been busy ever since we got back from vacation! We had about a week of great weather so concentrated on outdoor projects. Power washed the front deck and got it ready for painting. We went with a fairly new product called Restore. It was a lot of work to put on, but it looks great, and if it holds up it will be worth all the work. Had to tear apart quite a bit of the railing asLindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-90941428255334163492013-03-28T13:19:00.001-07:002013-03-28T14:49:34.247-07:00A tiny hair ruined my day!
We have been making great progress! The Pillar Rock Room aka the black and white room is really coming along. The floors are done, the furniture is in place, the bed is set up including the box spring and dust ruffle,(still need a mattress). The curtains are hung, and most of the decorating is done.
Yesterday I started in on the Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-20128913930728228932013-03-13T08:36:00.002-07:002013-03-13T08:36:43.047-07:00Last Room cont....
Wow, we are done with the last room except for a few pieces of trim which we need to go to Portland for. I just hope we will be able to find some! It has to match the old 1895 trim that is around the window and door, so got my fingers crossed that we can find a piece. The last coat of Varathane went on last night and it looks great! Now comes the fun part...decorating! Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-36632050364426777102013-02-13T17:22:00.001-08:002013-02-13T17:22:39.695-08:00The Last Room
We are slowly working our way through the last room to remodel! So far we have cleaned it out which was a big chore as it was our "junque" room! Son-in-law Adam helped me get it organized and cleaned out, whew it was a big job! A lot of the items will go back in the room when it is done, so they are kind of randomly stored in the bathrooms and in the office. Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-15535105955133656142012-11-28T09:38:00.002-08:002012-11-28T09:38:57.739-08:00
We have been busy doing a lot of little things, and will continue to do so until after the holidays. We don't want to make a big mess right now.
Got the hallway door refinished and back up. We had it dipped at the Big Dipper in Portland and then we finished scraping, sanding, staining and varnishing it. What a difference.
Got everything put away for the winter. Always a Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-35592076304292310652012-09-14T23:09:00.000-07:002012-09-14T23:09:11.135-07:00Summer is at an end....
I cannot believe my last post was April! Boy how this spring and summer have flown by. We have been super busy, and I will just list all of the things we have gotten done.
Finished the front hallway, painted the walls, put down the flooring and decorated. We are still working on the front door, sent it out to be rebuilt and now Brian and I are re-finishing it. In the meantime Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-29745914513009780132012-04-01T12:12:00.000-07:002012-04-01T12:12:59.631-07:00For the last few weeks we have been working on the front hallway. We have scraped, sanded and painted the trim around the doors, and the floor. Brian took the window out so I could re-glaze the stained glass and paint it. That is a big project. Just very tedious! Will be glad to get it done. We ordered the flooring and it just came in a few days ago, so hopefully we can Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-76915797734586645382012-03-11T12:19:00.000-07:002012-03-11T12:19:49.072-07:00And the kitchen floor is done and it looks great! We installed the kick board and the transitions yesterday and today we will get the rest of the baseboard up, after it dries. I stained it and now it has the last coat of varathane on it. I think that might be the last item in the kitchen to do other than finish decorating...wow...that has been a long time coming. We moved Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-19098031681975544592012-03-07T10:55:00.000-08:002012-03-07T10:58:35.912-08:00We did finish the stairs in January! They look so nice! We still have a few more of the spindles to do on the top landing, but we are so pleased with how the stairs turned out.
Monday we started putting the floor down in the kitchen. We are using the same flooring that we used in the upstairs bathroom. It goes down pretty easy and looks good. The one we chose for Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-52450700425010722892011-12-13T23:33:00.000-08:002012-01-02T10:12:23.795-08:00And the stairway is still the project! We have the lower part all done and the railing installed all the way up the stairs. Going to take a break from it for the holidays...but hope to still get a little bit more done when we have time. It creates so much dust! We spent today trying to clean and get all the sawdust off just about every surface upstairs...what a mess!  Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-34455623389272709782011-12-01T09:39:00.000-08:002011-12-01T09:39:17.148-08:00Still working on the stairs! It is never ending! We have all of the lower steps, railing & newel post sanded, stained and 2 coats of varathane on. Brian installed the 3 spindles we had made last year. It makes a big difference. I have been painting all the little details on the spindles and it is looking great. Hope to finish the lower section this week! Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-35970208508996947192011-11-07T17:02:00.000-08:002011-11-07T17:02:09.516-08:00November? Really? It has been close to 4 months since I last updated the blog. Well I guess not a lot has happened. We had grand kids here most of the summer, so that was fun, but did not let us accomplish much. Then we went on vacation for 5 weeks. But we are back to being busy. Brian has done a lot outside to winterize the house and yard, always a big Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-73125867581026227322011-07-08T11:32:00.000-07:002011-07-08T13:57:26.717-07:00 The time has just flown by recently, I cannot believe it is July already. We took a few weeks off for a road trip in June, but no more traveling until the fall. Too much to do!
The bathroom upstairs is complete except for the floor and some trim, and we will get to that soon. We had some insulation done and had to take everything out of the Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-74192297008671220982011-03-23T15:52:00.000-07:002011-03-23T15:52:44.990-07:00 Six years ago this month we moved into Dahlia! I remember thinking at that time that we would be done with all the projects in a years time. How naive we were! Little did we know just how much work this old house needed. So here we are 6 years later still plugging away, I am not sure I would have signed on for this if I knew at the time how long it Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-18347735409470848132011-03-07T14:05:00.000-08:002011-03-07T14:05:16.279-08:00We are finished repairing the downstairs shower. Re-sealed the whole floor, so hopefully no more problems with that.
The bathroom upstairs is almost done. The toilet is in, as is the sink and vanity. We had the electrician come today to help with the wiring and Brian was able to get the fan and the lights working this afternoon.
We found someone in Seaview to make the missing spindlesLindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-81690688686644710782011-02-16T22:52:00.000-08:002011-02-27T14:04:03.969-08:00The rain cleared up long enough to get the tree moved, now we will have more room in the garden and not so much shade on the plants.
Discovered a problem with the shower downstairs, some of the grout had come out from between a few tiles, so Brian cleaned out a bunch of the old grout, and replaced two tiles, and we will have to re-grout it before we can use it again...as I have said before it is Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-46768612652764148362011-02-12T23:29:00.000-08:002011-02-12T23:29:25.395-08:00Amazing! We have a working bathtub in the house, haven't used it yet, but will very soon. I put the wallpaper border up today with Emily's help. It looks great. The vanity top is glued down and ready for the sink and the plumbing.
Had to take some time Friday to repair a leak in the water line about 1/3 down the driveway. Always something! Em and John were here thisLindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271755.post-88223900476371152762011-02-06T12:45:00.000-08:002011-02-06T12:45:06.512-08:00All of the laminate is up in the bathroom and it really looks nice. The bathtub is in place and Brian is working on the plumbing for the bathtub, and getting a top built for the vanity. I finished sanding and staining the back splash for the vanity and it is ready to go. All of the pieces are coming together and we hope to have a finished bathroom by this time next week.! It will be so niceLindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03522924703962014663noreply@blogger.com0