Mom’s house as it was being built.
More tile work - plus some work on my kitchen (more pix of that here! Tiles of course.
The heating was finally going in this month and my mom and I had a long discussion where I highlighted I couldn’t do math properly when discussing oil prices. Luckily she could! But using either figure (my incorrect one or her correct one), oil in Ireland is more expensive than in the US.
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Mom’s house as it was being built. I’d send her pictures as it went.
The Great Tile Mishap, 2003.
I mixed up the bathroom tile. In the end it was for the best - the big tiles look better in the big bathroom - but I felt like an idiot. It required some quick runs down to the tile shop to get matching tiles.
As usual I tortured John with tile patterns.
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Mom’s house as it was being built. I’d send her links to these as her house was being built.
The picture this month is the garage roof being finished. But the discussions were on paint colours inside the house:
I’ve gone over this so many times and changed it so many time I decided I better send it and get it over with!!!!!!!!! the colors are taken from the “Delux Trade – Classic Colour Range” booklet.
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Mom’s house as it was being built. I’d send her links to these as her house was being built.
Well, back in late July I told mom that,
i’ll take pictures tomorrow. padraig wants to make it all neat for the pictures. the inside insulation is up, the door frames are up, the window sills are in, the outside is plastered and the ceilings are up. it should be plastered before you get here so you can smear bits of paint on the walls to test out colors.
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Mom’s house as it was being built. I’d send her links to these as her house was being built.
Oddly the house discussions in email didn’t really reflect this month’s picture. But kinda did reflect last month’s. Is it possible I was slow to send them?
where’s my house pictures??????????????????????
OK, yes.
Anyway, this was the question I relayed from the builder:
you have door frames. padraig’s wondering about window sills in the en-suite and main bathroom.
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