Month: December 2014

Another work weekend

This weekend we brought along the peanut and she was a big help 🙂

I found her like this when I came downstairs from doing something – she’s ‘making lists’ and has her tools ready.

Don’t ever change alex – you are too perfect 🙂

We had a busy day Saturday.  Alex and I ran to home depot while Ryan started with some spackling.  We have this tough to reach spot at the top of the staircase (ceiling and walls) that is taped but not finished.  Ryan got a good coat on that area.

Doesn’t this plank look totally safe?

We also managed to get 2 coats of paint on all of the ceilings that were ready – that’s the 2 bedrooms and the hallway (minus the stairway area).  Next time we’re out I can do smoke detectors and lights now!

Ceiling painted – 2 coats!
Back bedroom
Hallway ceiling

Our neighbor was over to work and he sheetrocked (which included some 2×4 installation) the attic stairwell – we are only doing the first section to the 2x4s they have up because the attic is unfinished but this way when you open the hopefully soon to be installed attic door, it opens to a seemingly finished stairwell.  We will probably leave this untaped since the rest is unfinished but we’ll see.

Attic stairwell – calling it done for now

All in all we had a productive weekend when you consider 6 hours of that is driving 🙁  Sunday we ran errands then drove home after packing up.  Attempted to drive during naptime (no nap).  All well.

Now it’s time to enjoy Christmas and family.  In the new year we’ll return to the home building 🙂

Front Hall trim

Well we had a bit of a break on the house work with Ryan needing back surgery and then getting it.  His recovery is going great though and this past weekend we took a day to drive out and work on the house, leaving Alex in NY with grandparents.  We drove out friday night in the horrible ice rain, then back saturday night in slightly better normal rain 🙁  That left us one full day to work on trim in the front hallway.

First Ryan installed the rosettes and top piece of trim on the doorway that was missing it.  Then he firred out the front doorway so we could install the trim around that.  We have to strip more rosettes so the tops of the doors (front door and closet door) are waiting for that to happen.

Plinth blocks, trim up the sides of the doors and baseboards installed
The chair rail and the trim up the side of the door – the baseboard is also done in this section.

We managed to get plinth blocks in, baseboard, baseboard cap and trim out the strange section at the bottom of the stairs.  Then Ryan got some more chair rail in.  We need to buy chair rail and the trim for making shadow boxes up the stair well so we’ll need to get that measured and bought for a next project.

Baseboard cap started up the stairs and the cap for the section at the bottom of stairs is done
The tricky section with some angles that took a little work – to get the baseboard cap to wrap around nicely.

I think we were both happy with how that little section came out at the bottom of the stairs, it looks nicer from the tile side than the stair side but there isn’t much we could do on the stair way side as it’s just a ‘cap’ of wood over there.

The front hallway is getting closer, shadow boxes are the main thing left in there, then it’s painting and upstairs trim next!