October 2011 New Work

Opening note:  Click on any photo to enlarge your view.

 After a few visits, we finally completed Bedroom 2.  You can see the finished bamboo ceiling; lights and fan up, even curtains. 

If you look at the bottom two panes of the window, you'll see the privacy film identical to what we used in the bathroom window.  This will give modesty privacty for this room from what will, before two long, become the new parking pad. 

We had fun shopping at Ikea for curtains for this room, getting the same drape, but in two colors that are more along the line of our wall colors in the room. 

Prior to our trip, the mid level dehumidifier stopped for a couple of weeks since it was plugged into a GFI circuit which tripped.  Dick spent a full day once again scrubbing the furniture with bleach water.  Then a day restaining, and another day applying satin finish varnish to the furniture to make it more resistant to mold. 

He also spent several hours once all was done thoroughly scrubbing the floors in both this bedroom and the en suite bathroom. 

At the end, he once again washed the windows so the whole room sparkles!

 At the beginning of this trip, we took a trip to the home center in San Jose called "EPA".  We found some Teak Oil.  Jim oiled the teak he put in during the May visit - and you can see the beautiful colors that oiling the wood brought out in the shelf next to Bath 2 sink. 

We worked together to replace the leaking drain piece at the bottom of the sink with a nice one we purchased in USA from Home Depot.  And we attached the little magnifying mirror which will be the utility over the sink mirror in that bathroom.  One day we'll add a full length mirror on the wall behind the door; or in the bedroom behind the door. 




We completed the bamboo ceiling in the bathroom as well.   Between trips, we bought towels that bring out the small tile colors in this bathroom,

Over the summer Jim, designed and created a wall cabinet so that there would be storage in that bathroom for incidentals that might be useful during a stay, and also to hold some towels over the toilet. 

You can see the finished countertop of the wall mounted vanitity we worked on during our Winter 2011 visit; and which Jim, attached and finshed during the May 2011 trip. 









So, the second bedroom and bath are complete, simply waiting for the time we put air conditioners in both bedrooms on this level. 


Thanks for reading our blog, more to come from this trip!


Ricardo y Jeeeem