Day 272

 

Since I'm going so long between posts now, it's hard to remember everything that is getting done.  We finally set a date that we want to be in the house.  Who knows how realistic it is.  I'm just going to imagine that we are getting evicted on a certain day and have no other choice to move in.  It gives everyone more motivation, I think.   

 

This is when I was trying to pull out rusty nails from old hardwood flooring.  Impossible.  Of course Josh tried and made it look easy.   

 

 

 

 

I painted the sides of the kitchen cabinets after we got the paneling up.  They need more coats and I forgot to do the ones on the bottom and we have to pull the fridge out to get the last one on.

 

 

 

Josh installing the door frame for the pantry.

 

 I sanded and spray painted the old canister lights for our living room. The middle one is sanded, so you can see how bad they started out.

 

I don't have pictures from last night, but Josh and I seemed to have gotten a lot done.  We put up 2 bedroom doors, but still need to work on their frame.  I put the final coat on the hallway and painted some more side panels of the cabinets.  Josh was cutting tiles for the dining room.  Since I wanted a herringbone pattern, he has to do a bunch of weird angles against the wall.  We also got out replacement vent hood (the last one was majorly dented after delivery) so he started mapping that out on the wall. 

 

Tomorrow is Penelope's 3rd birthday and she's having a party, so I stayed home and got ready for that.  My dad and mom went over to cut the base boards.  Then my dad put up trim around bedroom doors and my mom painted closet doors.  Josh has been working on smoothing out the kitchen counters.  He will finish that up tomorrow, hopefully.  I would like to go and work more tomorrow since it is the weekend, but it's also Penelope's birthday, so I don't know.  Maybe if I can get her to take a nap after her party ;)

Day 256

This is going to be a quick post because I have a lot of things going on at the moments, but thought it was high time for a housing update and some pictures.

 

Sometimes I take the kids over after dinner because it's their only chance to see their daddy.  They run around the deck, climb on lawn mowers and put stones in mailboxes.

 

 

The never-ending cabinet projects.  The ones in Penelope's room are "done" and the ones on the right, in Oliver's room still need more coats.  It takes at least a week for the paint to dry since it's oil-based.  The front of the doors have at least 3 coats and the back has 2.  Now you can see what a paint this is.

 

 

The fridge is in the kitchen!

 

Got the second coat on the bottom cabinet frames.  The top are done at 3 coats and the bottom just needs one more.

 

 

 

We had to get a part of our leaky roof repaired over out dining room.  Not cheap. We called A&J Home Improvements and from the time they came out to first look at it, to the time it was completed... it was like 4 days maybe.  Would call them again.

 

Our front yard view from standing on the garage roof.



 

A few nights ago, my dad and I went over and started hanging up doors that were painted.  We only got 6 uppers because the other ones need more coats.  Once they were up, I could see runs in the paint on the sides.  Josh suggested just wiping it with paint thinner.  I hope that works.  These kitchen cabinets have really been my big project and besides one coat (that Josh's mom and grandma did)  I've done it all by myself. Besides hanging them up.  BUT I am ready to be done with it ;)