My goldfish pond

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Here are a few pics of the progress. The tenants moved in last Wednesday. We are moving this coming Monday. Here are a few pictures of the rental. They have a covered deck in the front and the back.
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We were here picking out slabs today for our countertops. We picked Blanco Perla quartzite.
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Here is a view looking out from out kitchen to the deck. We tried to make the windows look like commercial storefront windows even thought they are all wood. I think we are happy with the result. We haven't finsished the underside of the canope yet. You can see the new deck right outside our windows.
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Here is a picture of the pond today. Finally all the bright green algae went away!
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And last but not least two pictures I took of the sunset last night. Both were taken after 8:00 PM.
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Hi Mitch. Most the doors have standard pin hinges in brush nickel. For our unit we used hidden hinges for the outswing doors so you can't see any hinges. This was mainly for closets with double doors and a few single closet doors. For our unit we used Emtek stainless steel hardware in a lever design.
 
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Wow, wow, wow!! It looks great, lucky tenants and gorgeous views of sunsets! Won't be long now, till you can putter with your pond :)
 
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Thanks JW. It turns out the fish I lost 10 days ago was my oldest fish and the most aggressive male from my old pond. i'm kinda glad I wasn't sure which one it was at the time because I would have felt even worse. When I first started out this was the only fish that survived my "learning" experiences. One of the guys that works for us also has a fish farm in Coatia. He took one of my pumps and fit an air tube into it so it blows lots of tiny bubbles. I have never seen that before. i'll take a picture of the setup. Anyway I think the extra O2 is helping now and all the fish look healthy. Hopefully I'll get my waterfall built this summer and that will help a lot too.
Thanks Tula, My daughter who lives in Cincy is visiting this weekend. She lives in OTR if you know where that is.
Thanks Lisak. The sunsets actually came from a park near where we are living now. It's 55 acres so when you get close to the middle where there is a hill you don't even see the city even though you are smack dab in the middle of it.
Here are some more pics of the "almost" finished home. We are starting to pick up the paper and plastic and you can see what's under everything. If it looks nice it's all because of my wife. As the GC I just wanted to get it done fast, but she spent a lot of time on the aesthetics and it is much better than if I was doing my standard finishes. Here are a few of the master bathroom or "en suite" as they call it nowadays. The floor has an infinity drain. we haven't installed shower glass of mirrors yet. The shower glass is going to cover half of the opening and will go floor to ceiling. There is a raincan in the ceiling and we had to place it so the spray would stay inside the glass.

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Here are some pics of the stairs from our main floor to our top level. We don't have the railing yet for the lower stairs because it needs adjustment. The lower stairs are custom mitered so there are no nosings. My wife saw a picture of this in a magazine and we were able to copy it.
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Here are a few living room/ dining room pics.
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It's probably hard to tell from the pictures but there are no mouldings around any of our doors or windows. We tried doing some new things to achieve that. I think some of it worked better than others. Hopefully where we glued in plastic corners it will stay so we don't have to rip it all out some day and redo it! We are moving Wednesday but won't get our kitchen counters until the end of next week at the earliest. i think we will be just happy to be moving and can survive until the counters are in. Moving is going to be interesting because I fell this week playing tennis and bruised my ribs. I'm getting better but can't do much lifting or anything like that for a while so we got two of our daughters to help us pack.
 
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Absolutely stunning! I'm so sorry you fell and hurt your ribs. I fell a week ago and badly sprained my ankle....such a pain - ugh!

I love OTR, that whole area is rich in architectural interest :) We live north east of the city and admittedly are older and not downtown as much as we used to be - ha ha!
 
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Your wife has beautiful taste. The whole thing is like my dream!

Must have been Let's Get Hurt Week. On Monday I got stung by a wasp in the nose - my whole face swelled up including my eyes. It was purdy. On Wednesday I broke my index finger right at the first knuckle, doing dishes no less. Dangerous business.
 

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