Month: August 2016

We are on track with this crazy 2 weeks of finishing up these rooms.  Last week we got the painting finished in Bella’s room and all the prep work on the trim in Alex’s room.  Thursday we got the priming done on Alex’s trim with a late night at the house.

Friday night I started sanding the floors by edging them with the orbital while Ryan started sanding the trim that was primed.  Saturday we took turns watching the kids and sanding the floors (i did the edging and Ryan used the big sander).

At bedtime Ryan took the girls home and I got the first coat of poly on the floors.  Today we went over, checked the floors (they were dry!) and again Ryan took the girls home (the fumes are too strong for the girls to be in the house) while I sanded and put on the second coat of poly.  One more coat tomorrow morning hopefully if I can get over there early enough.  I can take the morning off of work but only the morning.

The cherry floors have so much character and color – we love them and may have to do cherry on the rest of the house if they hold up well.

So far we are on track with the plan.  If i can get the third coat of poly on in the morning then we’ll take monday night off.  Tuesday night we’ll check the floors and if we can we’ll start painting trim but the girls won’t be able to come to the house until next weekend at the earliest (we’re going to try to air out the house Tuesday-Friday).

Excluding shoe molding (which is very very last) – the trim is all installed in the 2 bedrooms now!  Ryan worked Fri, Sat and Sunday and got it all installed!  There is SO much trim!  Brad spent last week painting Bella’s room and her trim is just about done (1 coat needed on a few small things, then touchups on the wall paint!).  I spent a little time this weekend (nap times) caulking and filling holes then last night finished the caulking (still a lot of holes to fill!)

And on to Bella’s room progress..

We have a crazy plan so we can move in the weekend of the 20th!

• Tue – Fill holes
• Wed – Sand/vacuum
• Thur – prime all trim
• Fri – sand the trim AND Sand the floors
• Sat – finish sanding and poly coat 1
• Sun – sand/vacuum/poly coat 2
• Mon – sand/poly coat 3
• Tue let it dry
• Wed – paint trim
• Thur – paint trim
• Fri – finish painting?? (trim, wall touch ups etc)
• Sat – install shoe molding
• Sunday – move in!
• Monday – back up day to move in 🙂

The days (Sat-Mon) that the floors are being poly’d are going to be short days for work upstairs so that gives us time to do work downstairs in prep for moving in.  We have a wall to build to hang the tv on, things to move to the basement, the kitchen to setup with better storage etc.  AND siding to put up IF it’s not raining (looks like rain though).

I’ll let you know next week how we’re doing… cross fingers for us!

This past weekend (and last week) we made some good progress on trim.

In Bella’s room I got all the trim sanded and primed except the actual window sashes and the main door (it wasn’t cut down yet).

Ryan made great progress on Alex’s room.  He finished the bead board, put in the shelf she has at the top of the dormer.  He made door jambs for all three closets and then trimmed them out as well as the small window and door to her room.  He got the main piece of baseboard installed all around the room.  He has to do the molding that runs along the top still and the chair rail all around plus the window in the dormer.  Finally he has to finish out the beadboard area with trim.

By the way i will have to get a closer/clearer picture of those doors trimmed out – they look so great!!!

We have a ton of wild life at the new house, deer, rabbits, eagles (1), hawks as well as the common ones.  Just this weekend we had a buck with 2 doe out by the lake and friday we had a mom with 2 baby deer.  I don’t usually think to take pictures but I did this time!

I don’t know how often we’ll see them once we move in and Fitz is running around more often but they are really not scared of people and will hang out in the yard even with the kids running around (deer and rabbit).  The rabbits really have no fear and have stayed around while I was walking fitz even!