Day 301

Well, we are in the 300's now :/  Just trying to keep it under 365. 

Last night my mom and I went to Bed Bath and Beyond and Target to look for curtains and blinds.  Boy are nice curtains expensive!!!  I got curtains for the living room, upstairs bathroom and Penelope's room.  We still have curtains packed away from our last few houses, but I know that none of them will match now and Penelope has 2 windows instead of 1 now.  She also got new curtain rods and we got one for the living room too.  We aren't sure what to do with our bedroom.  None of our old ones will really match our grey and teal walls.  But I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on curtains and have like 8 old ones that we can't use.  We'll see.  I'm still really excited to get the carpet in in a few weeks.  Then I'll be itching to move in.  And we'll be able to add some furniture. 

Josh finished all the back splash last night.  This picture, however, is not the completed project.  Just needs grouted. 

My mom painted the living room ceiling and my dad worked on patching up the walls. 

Josh's dad, Danny, started framing the downstairs.  These pictures don't do it justice.  It's hard to tell.  

This drywall is all new and it a hallway to the basement.  The wall on the right is a bathroom wall and doorway. 

This is part of a wall that's the end of the little hallway that will be closets.  The laundry room will be on the other side. 

That's all to report for today.  I'm just waiting on the living room walls to dry to paint them.  I also need to finish that one cabinet door and could add another coat to the dining room if I get adventurous. 

Day 298

Not many pictures to show this time.  Yesterday felt like the weekend since Joshua and my mom were both home from work for Veterans Day.  Josh spent his time at the house working on the back splash in the kitchen.  It takes a long time to measure and cut around all of our outlets.  Still have more work to do. 

His dad has been working on plumbing our kitchen sink and we just needed to buy a few more parts, and bought the wrong kind... His dad also put another light up by our deck and hung florescent lights in the garage.  The laundry room is in the beginning stages of framing,  There is a half wall up.  Iv'e been working on sanding the drywall in the living room to get it ready for paint. 

My mom and I went out with the kids yesterday afternoon to look at carpet.  We started at American Freight, but they no longer sell carpet.  We headed over to Ollie's because we heard they did.  Josh didn't want really expensive carpet since we have 2 toddles, a dog and a cat.  But Ollie's just sold sections if you wanted to do one room, basically.  I wouldn't be able to to 3 bedrooms and a living room with all the different colors they had.  Well, it wouldn't look nice anyhow.  So Josh sent me to Menard's to look at bathroom counters.  We have an odd size at 39 inches and we are putting our sink to the right side to have more counter space and Josh wants a square sink.  It would have to be custom, so I checked on that and using sandstone, the associate said it would be around $1,000.  Um, no thank you.  Our kitchen counters only cost us $300 or so.  We will probably just get formica and cut it ourselves after we get a sink.  Anyways, we looked at carpet there and I decided to just go ahead and order it.  The living room will be tan, as well as the hall and the 3 bedrooms are gray.  They gray had to be special ordered.  When it comes in, I'm going to call the carpet installers and have them pick it up and install it.  Probably towards the end of the month.  So exciting.  so I want to get the living room done asap.  It needs patched in some spots and the ceiling needs done and the baseboards need laid.  

My mom started sanding a dresser for Penelope that was left at the house.  It's old but looks pretty cool.  I just have to buy paint and knobs for it.  I'm thinking lavender maybe. 

 Sunday family trip to Home Depot

Curtains in Oliver's room.  A little shorter than our last house, lol. 

So, plans this weekend,... more backsplash and more work on the living room walls. 

Day 287

 

 

 

 

Replacing stairs

 

 

Doorway to laundry room