My contractor got married on Saturday and took Sunday and Monday off to honeymoon, so there’s been no change on the destruction/construction front. When you start a project like this, you know about the big expenses–remodeling projects cost way more than you would ever think reasonable, but you sort of expect that and you rearrange […]
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In these photo albums, you can click any thumbnail for a larger view. Before Preparing for chaos Demolition and chaos
The last few weeks have been a nightmare, only partly due to the kitchen remodel. Three weeks ago, we agreed on the various contract revisions and I signed my life away. Meanwhile, Akhnaten opened at Oakland Opera Theatre (http://www.oaklandoperatheatre.org), and I was spending much of my life in the pit. The week before last I […]
I’m currently mired in the paperwork stage. My next door neighbors are lawyers who kindly agreed to review the contracts for cocktails, so after three rounds of sidecars, I had a short list of action items to take up with my contractor, who is now updating his contract and also negotiating some changes with the […]
People always tell their remodeling stories as horror comedies, but this is after the fact, when both the horror and the humor of them can be safely amped up. I’m wondering how it might go to tell the story while it’s happening. I’ll try to illustrate the process, too, replacing the usual before-and-after duality with […]