Day 49

Went over to the house again last night with Josh.  I put the second coat of white in Oliver's room.  I think it will be ready for gray next.  Thank goodness.  I was having so many issues getting started though.  First, I had to scrape paint blobs off the wall that had dried from last time.  So Josh showed me the best way to do that.  Then I couldn't get the painted-over outlet cover off the wall, so Josh helped.  Then I started painting the second coat and it was so blotty again.  Called Josh over to help figure out why.  It was the paint.  I painted the section of wainscoting behind the toilet.  So I let him get back to working in the bathroom and then the broom handle holding my paint roller keeps falling off.  Then he helped my by putting a screw in it.  I felt so helpless trying to paint a stupid room.  I swear it took me two and a half hours. 

 

 

Josh put the tub walls up last night.

 

This is the bathroom tile that Josh started to lay.  He said that he had all of the tile cemented down and realized he forgot to put the wires and stuff down for the heated floors.  So he had to rip it all up and re lay it.  I'm just glad that he remembered before it dried completely.

 

Bad lighting and white wainscoting.

 

The entire kitchen floor is nailed down and completed! 

 

I took the kids to Menards with my mom to get the kitchen and dining room tile.  I was actually really excited about the carts because there were two baskets seats in the front of the cart and the one we got had a car in the front that the kids loved.  I could fit at least 4 little kids in the cart.  They were giggling and driving all around the store.

 

Thank goodness we took the sales flier with us because we couldn't find the right tile, then the sales associate told us where the one we were looking for was, but that wasn't it either.  Finally, we found it, but it wasn't marked with the sales price.  Luckily, he still gave me the price that was advertised. I said, "I'll take 26 boxes."  He said there weren't that many in stock (the website said there were) so he special ordered them and they should be in next week.

 

 

We wandered around the store for a while and I was totally overwhelmed by the cabinet knobs and pulls.  How does one ever decide!?

 

I'm so happy that (I think) I'm done painting Penelope's room because I'm getting so tired of painting.  I might be halfway done with the bedrooms.  Not looking forward to painting the ceilings and so so happy that I don't have to do the living room and dining room.