Hello, and welcome to our renovation!

Tai (my sweet, handy husband) and I (Kersten) are in the middle of a renovation for a condominium in the Marmalade/Capitol Hill West neighborhood of Salt Lake City. Renovation Voyuer was kind enough to give us a platform from which to shout about drywall, tile grout, low VOC paint and similar goodies, and you get to peek in on us and let us know what you think of our work. Check out all the “before” pictures you can stomach here.

A couple of things make us different from what you’ve seen on this site before. One, this is a temporary place for us — once we’re done with the remodel, we plan to immediately start looking for land and build a modern home somewhere in or near Salt Lake City (a longer explanation here). That means that while we are concentrating on doing high-quality work on this place, we’re not breaking the bank. In fact, during many of our shopping trips for this round of supplies, we’ve eyed fixtures, lights, flooring, finishes, etc. that we think will look great in a longer-term house and therefore will be worth spending the extra cash on.

Two, you’re catching up with us mid-process. In fact, you’re coming on board just as the fun begins! If you’d like to read about our sub-floor saga, the grueling tile process, and my numerous complaints about not having a functional toilet in the condo, check out our original blog. From here on out, we’ll be talking a lot about some of the finishing touches — those little things that will make our trashed-out condo a bona fide home. But, if nitty-gritty construction is your thing, there’s plenty on slc202 dating back to August ‘07 to distract you from whatever your real life work is!

Finally, we’ll be doing cross updates. So while we’d love the extra traffic over at slc202, I anticipate that anything on renovationvoyeur.com will mostly be duplicate material. Sorry in advance about the redundancy, but there is a limit to my snarky creativity!