9-24-08 Cubards are Primed!

So I do not have a picture but I am happy to say that Jane and I finished putting the 2nd coat of primer on all of the kitchen cabinet comonents. :)

I will check themover for imperfections and then start with paint. I cant wait to be done with this.

Sept 10-20 progress

Time to update the blog.

Here is a picture of the living room with the new paint and flooring. Notice the door now has a window and the half wall has a mantel on top.



Mark and Jane worked on painting the trim so that it could be put back in the rooms after flooring. Ben has been working 7am-11pm every day lately and was only able to stop by on a break to see how things were going.



Dad and I have now gotten fans put back up in the master, tylers room (pictured below) and the dinning room. The other fans I had planned on putting back up were very noisey and I decided I will go purchase some cheap ones for the kitchen and guest bedroom.


Mark and Jane painted the top of the kitchen/dinning room and I have started primming the cubbards. Jane helped prime the doors.



We will continue the lengthy process of priming and painting the kitchen cubbards and then we will be ready to put in the flooring and countertop.

Carpet is comming for the bedrooms on Saturday so they say. Then we can finish those rooms with the trim and closet doors. I am actually hoping to start setting up Tylers room Sunday but we will have to wait and see.

Sep 5-7 Flooring and Paint provide Encouragment

Since I have been bad about putting up pics lately here are pictures of the new closets that we added to the Master bedroom (top) and Tyler's room (bottom) Also note that we finished painting the bedrooms, hallway and living room except for some minor touch ups.

Ben's dad, Mark, has been a great help in accomplishing all the painting so that we would be able to lay flooring this weekend. He has spent all week finishing those rooms for us. Lucky for us to have a retired parent eager to help, since time has been our biggest obstacle.

The next project was to lay the wood laminate flooring in the hall and living room. Our fathers came and helped us lay the more difficult pieces in the hall and closets.

Below Mark (Ben's dad) is figuring out the cuts that Bert (my dad) will need to make to go around the door frame of the bathroom.


and (below)Ben is laying the edge pieces that will but up to the tile laminate that will go in the dinning room later.


This picture (below) gives you a good look at what the results looked like in the hallway.



At around 730 pm, we sent our fathers home to get some deserved time off and Ben and I spent the rest of Saturday "Date Night" completing the majority of the flooring.

It was actually nice to be alone working on something that actually provided visual results. The flooring provided needed encouragement that this house will actually be completed at some point.

I didn't get a picture of the living room as Ben and I worked late into the night and didn't get a chance to take another picture yet.

We are very happy with the look of our new flooring and anxious for the carpet to arrive so the bedrooms can be finished off.

Next we will focus on the kitchen/dinning room. We ordered the new counter top and it is due to arrive sometime after Sept 21st so we at least have a deadline in mind for getting the kitchen/dinning room done.

I will do my best to get more pics to post soon.

crunch time!

Well, it is September and the house is not ready. However, Carpet is comming next monday and we are working hard to get the bedrooms, hallway and living room done including the wood laminate flooring before the carpet comes.

We only have painting and the flooring left for those areas.

Then the only thing holding us back will be the kitchen/dinning room. This really means that I need to get my cubards painted as they are holding up the rest of the work in that area.

Mark and Jane (Bens parents) are now back from Minnesotta and we are sharing their house with them untill we can move into ours.

Mark is helping us on the house and Jane has to leave for the rest of the week for work.

Ben has gotten very busy with work and I am now working 45-50 hours a week to help with all our bills, so finding time to work on the house is getting more difficult.

Remember us in your prayers.

8/25/08 update

So I have not taken any pictures lately as I have not charged the batteries to the camera. I will attempt to get some soon.

Since the last posting we have gotten the doors back up (once painted), We created a second closet for the master bedroom by steeling the adjoining rooms closet and then built a new closet for that room. It is framed, drywalled and has 1 coat of drywall mud on. We still need to finish sanding it before we can paint.

Ben and dad also re-patched the bad patch in the master and patched the holes in the ceiling and wall where we removed half a wall in the living room. This will need at least one more coat of mud before it can be sanded to paint.

I have nearly finished painting the half bath. I had not planned on doing anything with this room yet but Ben and Cori decided to remove the wallpaper border one day and then I had to paint.

Ben has also started re-building the cubard where the newer (still over 20 years old but 20-30 years newer than the one I have and it is a self cleaning one, unlike the one that came with the house) and bigger wall oven is going as well as making a spot for the microwave so we can keep it off the couter.

Nick came over and helped us on Saturday and he switched the garage and front door for us so that the garage now has a fire proof door separating it from the house.

With any luck we can get the bedrooms painted this weekend and then start finishing the painting in the living room and hallway next.

I still have to get my cubards painted as soon as Ben finishes rebuilding that one unit.

Ben also bought our new furnace this weekend and that will be installed after we move in and before it gets to cold.

Well, I think that is about it for an update. I will try and get some pics up soon and keep you posted.

Sat Aug 16: New Electrical Service thru Monday Aug 18

Saturday Dad and Bob (a cusin) put in a new 150 amp electrical service for us.

Here is a picture of the old pannel box after it was removed.


Here is Dad putting the final touches on the new panel box.


I spent the day running back and forth to Lowes to get the supplies needed.

We also put another coat of paint on the doors, and on Sunday Ben changed the locks on the house. I continued prepping the kitchen for paint.

Monday night Dad started finishing the half wall after Ben had pre cut some pieces for him during the day. Hopefully that will be taken care of by the end of this comming weekend and we can get the Living room done.

Aug 8-11

Here is a list of our accomplishments:

-Ceilings painted in 2 of 3 bedrooms
-Trim painted in 2 of 3 bedrooms
-Trim painted in hallway
-Trim painted in full bath (this realy cleaned it up)
-Started painting doors white to match trim
-Painted smallest bedroom brown.
-Started painting Tyler's bedroom red and green.
-Removed backsplash in kitchen (realized we will need tile or the faux tin to cover the walls due to condition of wall)
-Sanded cubards in kitchen for painting
-removed wallpaper from soffit in kitchen
-Primed dinning room

While things are going slow we are steadily getting closer to completion.

Here are some pics.


Ben has removed the backsplash and started sanding the main cubards in preparation for paint.


Cori helped me scrape the wallpaper backing off the soffit of the kitchen so that I can paint it later.


Tyler and Daddy started painting his bedroom. He got his big red wall. I loved the green that I picked too.