Rejuvenation Projects Blog

We’ve finally hit that point that Rejuvenation has been waiting anxiously for. We have installed those schnazzy light fixtures. With every bit of detailing that goes into the house, the sense of elegance and historical character increases. The installation of these light fixtures just brought the aesthetic appeal of this house to a new level. I’d love to say more about it, but I’ll let the pictures constitute the thousand words:

Standing in the Entry

Living Room

Dining Room

Kitchen

Master Bath

See more pictures and project info at the builder’s web site.

One other thing that I was excited about this week was that I could finally get a better look at the wood front porch. The story on this wood is that it was salvaged from the demolition of a garage that was previously on the lot. The wood has been sanded out and laid back down as decking for the front porch. It looks way better than I thought it would:

Front porch w/ salvaged wood

On another note, I just have to complain for a second about city inspectors. We recently set up forms to pour the concrete walkway and driveway. These forms have to be inspected before concrete can be poured. We called for an inspector, who showed up and told us that the forms did not have enough slope built into them to move the water away from the house. So, we failed the inspection. We adjusted the forms to have more slope, and then called for a reinspection. The same inspector came out and told us we had too much slope. So, we adjusted the forms again, and called for another inspection. This time, the inspector showed up, got right of his car and went straight into the porta potty on site. After finishing his business, he signed off and told us that it looked fine. The crazy thing was that he didn’t get anywhere near the forms to actually look at them. For all he knew, we didn’t make any changes at all to the forms since his previous visit. It’s hard not to interpret this whole thing as one inspector’s idea of an ego trip. Meanwhile, progress on my house is at a complete stand still. It’s so frustrating. How can the city afford to do ridiculous stuff like this when they just laid off a huge portion of their staff because of budget problems? It’s one of those things that makes me want to rip my hair out in frustration over the obvious insanity of it all. Furthermore, there is no recourse when this stuff happens. Inspectors can be ego-tripping jerks whenever they want and suffer no harm for it. Meanwhile, homeowners and builders lose hundreds of dollars a day in expenses for that stuff. How is that okay? Alright, I have vented now. Let’s get back to the more encouraging side of things.