In the words of Tim Gunn -- "Carry On"! Whilst we await the thumbs up (or thumbs down) on our blueprint approval we shop - and we prepare - prepare and shop. City of Los Angeles -- our fate lies in your red-taped hands!
So here's the haps. I've updated the cost section to include the permit fees. Not so bad after all. At this exact moment I have electrician extraordinaire Herman of Bright Lite Electric (shout out) working feverishly at moving our butt-ugly electrical panel. It'll be in the tiki area, and may I add will still be butt-ugly - only now butt-ugly in a more obscured location. (Hopefully we'll manage to cover it with a cool tiki too.) Once that bad boy is gone we'll be able to install double French doors where now there is a single door. Sweet.
And speaking of doors....who knew that picking out windows and doors was such grueling work? Honestly it's probably THE hardest part of this job. We have beautiful vintage steel French casement windows in our house -- terribly inefficient, but I don't care cause I love 'em! But matching them is proving to be a bit of a challenge. This may end up being a bigger part of the budget than anyone expected.
On the plus side....I sourced out a bunch of doors from China. Yes, you read that correctly. Much to the dismay of my contractor, who thinks that I'm certifiably insane, we are ordering our doors and windows from China. Worst case scenario - we threw a way a fraction of what it would cost us to get our doors from the U.S. Best case scenario - we absolutely love them and we save mucho dinero.
That's it for now!
So here's the haps. I've updated the cost section to include the permit fees. Not so bad after all. At this exact moment I have electrician extraordinaire Herman of Bright Lite Electric (shout out) working feverishly at moving our butt-ugly electrical panel. It'll be in the tiki area, and may I add will still be butt-ugly - only now butt-ugly in a more obscured location. (Hopefully we'll manage to cover it with a cool tiki too.) Once that bad boy is gone we'll be able to install double French doors where now there is a single door. Sweet.
And speaking of doors....who knew that picking out windows and doors was such grueling work? Honestly it's probably THE hardest part of this job. We have beautiful vintage steel French casement windows in our house -- terribly inefficient, but I don't care cause I love 'em! But matching them is proving to be a bit of a challenge. This may end up being a bigger part of the budget than anyone expected.
On the plus side....I sourced out a bunch of doors from China. Yes, you read that correctly. Much to the dismay of my contractor, who thinks that I'm certifiably insane, we are ordering our doors and windows from China. Worst case scenario - we threw a way a fraction of what it would cost us to get our doors from the U.S. Best case scenario - we absolutely love them and we save mucho dinero.
That's it for now!
Wow! You are brave doing a remodel in L.A. - you may never see those plans again. Can't wait to read about the doors and windows from China although worst case scenario might actually be that they are painted with a lead based paint or have mold based on prior product issues from China. I think you're probably safe on the arsenic as it isn't a grain product.
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