Mike and Jeff's New House

After a leisurely summer, we have kicked back into project mode..... The master bathroom has twin sinks, and each side has the same storage unit configuration of 3 drawers and 3 open shelves....Jeff used IKEA drawer panels that matched our drawers to build the box up at the top, he cut a hole in the panel for the low voltage lights and now we can really see the things that are on these shelves...

Jeff has finished cutting the headers for the garden shed...Next up is the staining and then we'll attach the tin sheathing...

We found a great guy who has started a small specialty nursery focusing on bamboos adapted to the Sacramento area. The name of the company is Mad Man Bamboo and he helped us to pick out a cultivar B. multiplex `Alphonse Karr' that is a clumping type that will not get too big. http://www.madmanbamboo.com/ We put 3 of them in the ground outside our dining room window on the south side. Now that they are in, we will put in the twin wall greenhouse glazing in between these posts....

Alas, before planting we have a bit more work to do. The front courtyard area is where gravel for the foundation was dumped and then compacted by construction vehicles. On top of that, the guys that did our stucco mixed all of their concrete and sand in this area... So, shovel by shovelful, Mike spent an entire Saturday digging up a bed about 2.5 feet wide by 6 feet long and running it over a steel grate to filter out the gravel and concrete pieces... Flowers by Spring!