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This stretch since March has been one of the more challenging in my career in the construction industry. Several times I’ve felt like I’m in the perfect storm, with the skies closing up on me over and over again, but today is the first time since last winter I’ve started the week with a feeling that the worst of this hard stretch of managing projects in this new world might be in the rear view🤞🏻
So if you fry the hash browns in the bacon grease, you end up w McDonalds hash browns. @michellemickd #bodyisatemple #foryourhealth❤️
This one hurts more than you know. RIP EVH #eddievanhalen #vanhalen
Bath remodel I. One of my favorite renovated buildings in the city. The old light bulb factory in East Boston was renovated in a way that was tasteful, but still preserved and even celebrates its former use. @periodcraftsmen
Progress at our East Boston kitchen/home facelift. The kitchen will have cool hidden pantry!
Saturday work here in Newton. This house is a couple of hundred years old. Tons and tons of weird remodel work in it’s life. We added onto the back of the house and this will be a huge custom made kitchen. Waiting on a steel beam and some major plumbing/electric rough this coming week and we will be turning a corner here. Exterior hardscape and painting is coming along nicely too👌🏻
Breakfast for dinner! My kids love this song. COME BACK BABAAAAY
Lil sneak peek of another bath gut in East Boston. Couple more days here and it’s a wrap!
Another non gut bath remodel in Charlestown for some awesome clients signed off this morning. Onward!
700! Lol. Maybe I missed out on all the algorithms, maybe I should’ve bought followers, or maybe my content just sucks🤷🏼♂️ Don’t really care- I just try to keep it light, don’t have time for stories, just share our projects, some good tunes and hopefully some laughs.
Repost from @cherylroi There was really no good place for a mudroom area at the side door to this kitchen addition we did in Brighton, so Cheryl repurposed this large closet that was in the design. There’s another nice sized closet right next to it so we took the double and made it into a mudroom space for a busy young family.
Felt good to spray some paint this afternoon in the sun. This is a project where we are doing a large kitchen reno/addition, new deck put back, hardscape, some slate roofing, and residing the rest of the house. We restored the front original siding and moldings.
I know @dettmore101 has deemed these a waste of money 😘but I find the racatac rollers quite nice for installing a whole kitchen of hardware.
@russell_architectural_finish @designergaragedoors as requested. 1 take 210 yd 5 iron right down broadway.
Grind in’
Cabinet grade ply in the pouring rain. That’s badass.
Some punchlist in East Boston bathroom. It’d be a crime not to stop in for a sausage and a steak tip skewer.
Gonna bang out a couple of bids before the Pats game.
Looking at Monday on the way out on Saturday. (Queue the Law and Order dong dong)
Heading into town just now it hit me how much the Boston skyline has changed. When I was growing up in Boston (90s), most of that stuff to the left wasn’t there and that, now short, building all the way to the right (Prudential Tower) was like our Empire State Building. Cray
At the end of a week from hell. I did all I could. Time to turn my brain off and blast some Motown.
Bang bang and brews for the Masters. Gonna enjoy my last day off until thanksgiving
Peter Gabriel is the best
Getting there in Salem. This was a fire house with signification interior damage and a totally compromised roof. We demo’d, removed and reframed roof, new windows @grandbanksbp and interior framing, closed cell throughout by @green_era_insulation and we are finally plastered and ready for finish.
Weather tight, roughs almost done, rock wall to match existing all set. Getting there in Newton.
Feeling exhausted lately.
Our quarantine rescue Blue is a world class snuggler. He’s our first rescue and it’s a really special thing to see a doggo at ease that he’s found his home.
Major repairs at our Andover project in another bathroom from a poor prior repair that actually caused a ton of damage. We had to sister up the floor joists and re deck the floor from all of the rot. @toreticonstruction working late to get this one done tonight
‘Hi Homie’...uh, o@houzz
🔥🔥Almost there w/ bath #1 at our back bay project. We will be remodeling the master bath here, the kitchen, and adding a penthouse room to the roof. Tile by @toreticonstruction
We’ve moved onto #daysofthunder
Sometimes you have a few cocktails and want to watch Point Break
Lil sneak peak of the master bath in our Andover project. This was a reconfiguration of master, master bath, guest room, master closets, and more. It’s going to be a stunning finish product for some really nice clients.
Stealing time. More middle of the night shop time.
My job is always the stuffing. The secret ingredient is the ground sausage and topping it w shredded Parmesan. That and the White Russian w a splash of amaretto.
Every year the ebb and flow of my life from year to year has me always catching one particular movie over and over again during the holidays. Last year Home Alone. Year before that Scrooged. This year seems like it’s gonna be Bad Santa.
Went to Boulter Plywood and Anderson and Mcquaide earlier for some stock. You think studs have gotten pricy? Go pick up some select products.
HUGE Chris Cornell fan. Started with Soundgarden this morning and moving onto Audioslave. This song got a ton of radio play, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that it slays.
Pretty happy my man Dale got these in before the plants close for the season. House on left is our Brighton project we had to hold off on driveway so the landscape contractor could do his thing. House on right is a neighbor who’s been very accommodating during a long project, so we re did her driveway that was in rough shape.
I’ve been into LPs since high school. Not an expert but fairly seasoned. If you’re a beginner, I think bang for your buck is the way to start your collection. This is a must have. 2 record set, and every song is a banger. From there get some ELO greatest hits and you’re on your way
Sometime your kids want to rock out after daycare
Been a long couple of weeks. This is awful but feels so good at the same time.
She’s a beaut Clark!
Coating floors on Sunday, so we can keep moving on Monday.
Never forget Pearl Harbor Day.
Walnut built in I’ve been trying to deliver and install to our Brighton whole house we did. Did my best to grain match the doors. Heyooo
Sunday morning Elton John and breakfast!
Get funky
Friday afternoon easy listening
Solo hood vent install
Sneak peek
Pretty? Nope. I do enjoy finding ways to use up scrap lumber and minimize waste at the end of the job. This will get cement board and a stone veneer that will cover existing fireplace brick as well.
I never post political thoughts on my business page, but this just blows me away. As a small business owner, I am both grateful that I’m doing ok, and aware of how fortunate I am. If the circumstances were different I could easily be losing my livelihood like so many restaurant and retail business owners. It’s heartbreaking. This isn’t a mask opinion or anything like that. I’m just totally disgusted with the entire spectrum of politicians who have had months to easily help small business. @stoolpresidente and @barstoolsports managed to put their money where their mouths are in less than a week. If that doesn’t scream that we don’t need government to take care of us when we can take care of each other, I don’t know what does.
Sunday morning Elton John and breakfast!
Get funky
Stone veneer fireplace/chimney in our Salem fire rebuild. @toreticonstruction nailed it on this one. We will be doing a floating mantle here after it’s pointed.
Hope everyone had an amazing holiday with the ones they love!
Just made it. Driving and on the phone all day and totally disregarded it. 😬
This is an ‘in progress’ of a large kitchen reno/addition we are working on in newton. Additionally we opened the wall between dining room and tea room and put a matching shadow box where the off centered door used to be. We are also refinishing the floors on the rest of the first floor, residing, fully restored/painted the front siding, windows, and shutters, and we installed a ton of hard scrape to match existing old stone walls and patios.
This is one of my top 3 Christmas albums. The others being the Boston Pops and The Chipmunks.
Early Christmas present to myself. New Thorogood boots w super feet foam insoles!
This might be the most underrated rock album of the 90s. Just smashes from start to finish.
3:05 am. Stealing back time at our Salem fire rebuild pouring leveler in the basement, so we can install our floating floor. Small business is not a 9-5, it’s just not.
There are songs that you just close your eyes and enjoy. This is one. Maybe my favorite Motown track.
We finish our own floors. It’s a part of the whole remodel that I really enjoy. We started doing this for ourselves about 10 years ago. These floors are some added work at our large kitchen/addition project in Newton. These floors don’t have a ton of meat on them as the house is a couple of hundred years old, so I didn’t want to give them a full cut. We had the stain exactly matched to existing before we did anything because we needed to for the kitchen anyways. From there, in these other areas we screened the hell out of the floor and did a touch up of the floors with stain to hide all of the scratches and scuffs. Bona oil sealer and two latex finish coats from here. Only halfway to finish and these floors look bueno!
👌🏻afternoon vibes
Stone veneer fireplace/chimney in our Salem fire rebuild. @toreticonstruction nailed it on this one. We will be doing a floating mantle here after it’s pointed.
This guy was crying to come sit with me when I was doing work on the couch. He’s been snuggled like this for 3 hours. Love our rescue buddy.
We looked at a really cool kitchen today. This curved bar and range hood are both for sale if anyone knows of a bar or restaurant maybe w an open kitchen looking for these type of items. Dm and I can connect you with homeowners.
After dinner is dance time over here. Decided to show my daughter some classic stuff. This came out 21 years ago. Feel old?
New year, new beer...fridge. Did my annual purge of our basement fridge of all the weird beers, ciders and seltzer’s that are left behind.
This might be the most underrated rock album of the 90s. Just smashes from start to finish.
3:05 am. Stealing back time at our Salem fire rebuild pouring leveler in the basement, so we can install our floating floor. Small business is not a 9-5, it’s just not.
Dats my electrician!! @chrisdavis1970
So good
So this is a solution I came up with a few years ago for nasty/rusty/beat up/missing parts radiator covers in bathrooms. Works well, let’s all of the heat out, and has a nice simple craftsman look. I am a versatex cutoff miser on my jobs so I always have a pile of pieces big enough to whip some of these up, so it’s a win win.
Pre pizza delivery dance party. My body’s saying let’s go- but my heart is sayin no.
This guy was crying to come sit with me when I was doing work on the couch. He’s been snuggled like this for 3 hours. Love our rescue buddy.
Gotta start now for those summer results.
Sunday morning Relax vibe 🙌🏻
Getting there in Newton! Closing in on a nice kitchen remodel/addition/siding/flooring/hardscape project.
Great rainy sat tube. Change your vibe right now. ‘JAAAAAAMES BROWN’
Dats my electrician!! @chrisdavis1970
So good
Sunday am cleaning music 🤷🏼♂️
Backsplash done, kitchen plumbing finish today. Even w no lights on there is a ton of light in this room which was a main goal, in addition to larger space. Mission accomplished. I love this kitchen!
‘Hi I’m Matt, and I’m Pat, and these people hired rhino shield about 4 years ago at around 4x the cost of most painters, and we subbed it out to a guy who applied our patented ceramic coating in the rain!’ (Or something like that- the ads are on the radio all the time)
Gotta start now for those summer results.
Sunday morning Relax vibe 🙌🏻
Getting there in Newton! Closing in on a nice kitchen remodel/addition/siding/flooring/hardscape project.
5th (😳😪🥰)bday small celebration for my baby girl. All she wanted was breakfast food, ice cream cake and LOL Surprise theme (which I still don’t understand). You got it babe! @michellemickd
Sunday am cleaning music 🤷🏼♂️
Backsplash done, kitchen plumbing finish today. Even w no lights on there is a ton of light in this room which was a main goal, in addition to larger space. Mission accomplished. I love this kitchen!
‘Hi I’m Matt, and I’m Pat, and these people hired rhino shield about 4 years ago at around 4x the cost of most painters, and we subbed it out to a guy who applied our patented ceramic coating in the rain!’ (Or something like that- the ads are on the radio all the time)
Gotta start now for those summer results.
Sunday morning Relax vibe 🙌🏻
All fixed.
This is fun. Our newton project had custom cabinets made. Super awesome builder/cabinet shop I will not name made them and insisted on their own install. We said fine, I’m a team player. This will be the last time we don’t install our own kitchen, even though it’s kind of rare anyways. We had to completely re sand and stain most of the kitchen from damage caused by installers, and I’m just touching up a couple of last spots I wasn’t happy with before sealer coat. Complete disregard for our site, the homeowner, and their own product tbh. I’ll let your imagination suffice for the list of problems w the build/paint/install. This (I guess) is high end/‘best in MA’ level of custom cabinet build/install. No thanks. We even had to vac and clean the cabinets out when they left the last day finally. 👌🏻👌🏻I’m just so so tired of this older builder attitude like what we dealt with here w this contractor. Rant over. Back to my Tom Petty
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Excited to be starting this kitchen remodel! It started w moving a couple of cabinets, but the final scope is going to be a full remodel of the kitchen/dining/galley pantry with the help of a great design by @grandbanksbp
Doing one of my favorite things in the entire world. Having cocktails w a good friend and listening to every type of music
All fixed.
This is fun. Our newton project had custom cabinets made. Super awesome builder/cabinet shop I will not name made them and insisted on their own install. We said fine, I’m a team player. This will be the last time we don’t install our own kitchen, even though it’s kind of rare anyways. We had to completely re sand and stain most of the kitchen from damage caused by installers, and I’m just touching up a couple of last spots I wasn’t happy with before sealer coat. Complete disregard for our site, the homeowner, and their own product tbh. I’ll let your imagination suffice for the list of problems w the build/paint/install. This (I guess) is high end/‘best in MA’ level of custom cabinet build/install. No thanks. We even had to vac and clean the cabinets out when they left the last day finally. 👌🏻👌🏻I’m just so so tired of this older builder attitude like what we dealt with here w this contractor. Rant over. Back to my Tom Petty
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Breakfast fried rice. Whatevs
Totally non biased PSA from one of the scummiest unions in Boston😂
So a couple of months ago I ordered a @remarkable tablet. I’ve gotta say- this thing has paid for itself many times over with being able to explain and send my preferences and designs to the field. I very much like how basic it is and that there’s no temptation to play with other apps. I use it for materials, plan instructions, built in rough designs, to-do, and so on. I highly recommend this to anyone that still enjoys writing things down.
Quick trip this morning for some reclaimed. We do a lot of work in older homes. I prefer it. I like having to get creative. I see the same sterile projects on IG. All look great and I’m sure the work is impeccable, but old homes are just fun IMO.
The perfect Sunday morning song.
Excited to be starting this kitchen remodel! It started w moving a couple of cabinets, but the final scope is going to be a full remodel of the kitchen/dining/galley pantry with the help of a great design by @grandbanksbp
In town debris/demo pickup referrals please
Pretty gnarly scene right now, but this will soon be a gorgeous basement bath.
Breakfast fried rice. Whatevs
Totally non biased PSA from one of the scummiest unions in Boston😂
So a couple of months ago I ordered a @remarkable tablet. I’ve gotta say- this thing has paid for itself many times over with being able to explain and send my preferences and designs to the field. I very much like how basic it is and that there’s no temptation to play with other apps. I use it for materials, plan instructions, built in rough designs, to-do, and so on. I highly recommend this to anyone that still enjoys writing things down.
Quick trip this morning for some reclaimed. We do a lot of work in older homes. I prefer it. I like having to get creative. I see the same sterile projects on IG. All look great and I’m sure the work is impeccable, but old homes are just fun IMO.
You’re a Martian if you can listen to this song and not be in a good mood.
Driving home crushing good tunes. This week smashed me.
Fun.
Allllllmost finalllllllly caught up across the board. Next week we will be caught up for the first time since pre Covid. This is progress in our Essex kitchen. Moving right along!
We had a whats usually a weekend request by the kiddos this morning-super easy- I buy baguettes and slice them up and freeze. Then, all I gotta do is take a few pieces out at a time to make this kids bomb French toast.👨🏻🍳
Beam wraps and mantle done recently at our Salem fire rebuild. I’m a little hung up on the first beam bc the grain match was far less noticeable but one piece got much darker with sealer. It looks nice in person. 🤷🏼♂️
Multitasking. CSL renewal via zoom today so I’m also making drawer box stock to help pass the time. Look at me! @nsbuilders isn’t the fancy pants that makes their boxes and drawers out of walnut.
Nearing the end in Newton. Large kitchen addition, new deck/decking, restored the front of house to painted siding and trim, resided the rest of house, and built stone walls.
TRANSLATION “We know businesses are scraping by, so we are going to hit employers w a 60% increase even though we are sitting on millions in stimulus money. I mean we’ll tryyy to institute a freeze, but don’t count on it”- Comm of Mass FU @massgovernor
This week...Can I win the lottery already.
You’re a Martian if you can listen to this song and not be in a good mood.
Driving home crushing good tunes. This week smashed me.
Installing built ins today in Andover. Here’s a sneak peak at the office setup we made. (Ben Moore Whale Grey)
Long day/week/month/year/weekend ahead. Linguine and clams was in order.
I need a box truck.
This monster desk top will finally be delivered to Andover today!
Working on some cabinets for a nice client in Back Bay. I am by no means an excellent cabinet builder. I am a pretty good one though. I think the hardest part for me was coming up with the most efficient way to build the strongest cabinets given the equipment I have and the space I have to work in. My shop is pretty decent sized but there’s never enough room. My equipment setup lends to a combination of pocket screws and dado joinery. There are a bunch of different ways to skin this cat, and everyone feels like theirs is the best. For me, I have a high skill level for trim and finish carpentry so I self taught myself over the years to build my built ins and cabinets. I feel like there are a lot of cabinet snobs out there, and that’s cool, but to the guys out there that don’t have $40,000 in shop equipment- it is possible to crank out the same type of work as others and there’s no shame in how you get it done providing your product is strong, well built and properly finished.
Multitasking. CSL renewal via zoom today so I’m also making drawer box stock to help pass the time. Look at me! @nsbuilders isn’t the fancy pants that makes their boxes and drawers out of walnut.
RIP Dick Hoyt. A true Boston/MA legend. We could all be a little more like Dick Hoyt. I hope I am half the father to my children.
Courtney love is a piece of crap, BUT, Hole was a pretty decent band, and she was really good in The People Vs Larry Flynt.
This was, for real for real, one of the worst waterproof jobs short of the southie shower from last year that had tile over sheetrock. We moved the valve and shower head to the other side and move the niche with a classy picture frame accent for some super nice clients. @toreticonstruction slinging the tiles here 🤘🏻
Crab cake, egg & cheese on an Italian roll w sriracha to kick off my Sunday workday.
Productive Saturday in Malden!
Progress pics from Essex kitchen! Cabinets/design by @grandbanksbp
Couple of Craigslist steals I got this week. If you know what these are you know the time savings. The deal I got, I literally couldn’t afford not to take them. I’d regret it forever.
RIP Dick Hoyt. A true Boston/MA legend. We could all be a little more like Dick Hoyt. I hope I am half the father to my children.
Courtney love is a piece of crap, BUT, Hole was a pretty decent band, and she was really good in The People Vs Larry Flynt.
This was, for real for real, one of the worst waterproof jobs short of the southie shower from last year that had tile over sheetrock. We moved the valve and shower head to the other side and move the niche with a classy picture frame accent for some super nice clients. @toreticonstruction slinging the tiles here 🤘🏻
