Category: House

Before and after of our back gate.. We finally finished building the back gate after many months of having an ugly chain link fence temporarily closing the gap. The fence and wall just needs some paint and it’ll finally be complete! We’ve also started work on the wall in the front of the house as […]

My dream kitchen has gray cabinets, a white countertop, white subway tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances, and a farmhouse sink. One day, my dad sent me a photo from IKEA’s website and I thought, “WHOA. THAT’S MY KITCHEN!” After shopping around, we ended up buying our countertop from some Asian place in El Monte and.. […]

Back in December, we tore out the old wood floors and started laying the new floors. We couldn’t quite finish the floors because the drywall hadn’t gone up in the kitchen but, now the walls are in, we’re ALMOST done! Furniture is everywhere but the dogs finally have a huge, open space to run around […]

We finally have some walls! The exterior walls have been installed and a lot of pink, fluffy insulation has gone in. The chill in the house has gone considerably down now that there are finally walls enclosing the house. We’re slowly but surely making progress!

Back in November, Ikea had their kitchen sale so we bought our kitchen cabinets and sinks. After two rounds of rescheduled delivery dates and three shipments of the wrong items, we finally have our complete order! Merry Christmas to us! 🎅🎄🎁 Now we just need to turn these 140+ boxes into a kitchen..

There’s been in a lull in progress over the past month while electrical, plumbing, and fire sprinklers continue work, which is pretty annoying. In the mean time though, we’ve been working on ripping out the existing hardwood floors in the living room and the tiles in the kitchen. The existing wood floors were made of real […]

It’s been two months since I made my last house update and there’s been a lot going on since then! Floor joists went in.. Insulation went in.. and Louie thought he could walk on clouds and immediately fell through into the crawl space under the house. 😑 Plywood went down.. and the dogs were SO excited to […]

Foundation has been poured! The current ground level is so low that we’re going to need A LOT of dirt to bring it up. It’s strange to see the perimeter of the house laid out but I’m super excited for the next step: framing! Check out Penny peeping from behind the foundation in the main photo. […]

Things are moving pretty quickly with Thai House v2.0! Within the past 3 weeks, the back patio was demolished, the ground was dug into, foundation holes were created, and the form for foundation was assembled. I can’t wait until the foundation is poured and framing can start! THAT’s when it’ll start to really look like a […]