That will never get old (from P&P). We have finished our linen closet (the floor needs to be finished but we’re not doing the upstairs floors just yet so that has to wait).
Meanwhile – I got the final coat of paint on the trim this weekend and put in the shelves (and filled them).
Shelves in the closet!!!
The doors are now painted and waiting for knobs to be added and the doors hung back up.
Doors painted
I also managed to paint the trim around 2 doors in the kitchen Sunday night before it was too late to want to continue. There is a lot of trim left to paint in this house but a little at a time moves it along!
first coat of paint on door trim (and the baseboard between them)
I’m VERY excited to have a linen closet, I was able to empty out a bunch of stuff from my bedroom and once the floors downstairs are done (this weekend???!!!!!) I can move my sewing area and desk/work area downstairs as well. Then it’s on to the last phase of our demo – the last 2 bedrooms in the house! Scary thought!
Not a lot of house progress this past weekend because we were potty training and Ryan had to work most of the weekend.
I did manage however to work during naptimes and our neighbor came over on Friday and painted windows. 9 windows got a single coat of interior paint done (the exterior is already done on these). These are the diningroom and livingroom windows. Hopefully this friday the second coat can get on them!
I got the closet trim primed and a coat of paint done. I also primed the closet doors. Trying to squeeze in some time to do the final coat of paint and start painting the doors so I can start using my closet! The shelves are just hanging around ready to be hung!
Nothing else exciting – next weekend will be similar – still potty training so can’t leave Alex too much but I may have my neighbor’s daughter come over to play with Alex a bit and get some time to do something or other around the house!
This past weekend (we were home on Monday only) marked some progress on the linen closet! Friday my neighbor Pete was over working so he sanded, primed and painted the closet (then did some other projects like empty out the master bathroom area).
Closet painted!
Monday we went to home depot and got the closet system, then I painted the second coat on the walls and ceiling. Once the paint was dry I installed the closet light, then Ryan installed the rails for the closet system (we’ll wait on shelves which just pop in until trim is done). Then Ryan made and installed all the closet trim (baseboards and door trim) on the inside of the closet!
Rails and baseboard installedDoor trim and light. Since it’s the inside of a tiny (narrow) closet we’re just doing flat trim, nothing fancy. Once the shelves are in you won’t even be able to see the trim.
All that is left is to sand, caulk the trim and then prime/paint the trim and doors! I’m so excited to have a closet soon upstairs! The only problem with working on it is that it’s RIGHT outside Alex’s room so I can’t do anything noisy when she’s trying to fall asleep, so we’ll see when I get some time to sand it (painting is quiet at least).
House progress is always fun, especially on a weekend when we also got to go back to NY and see all our family! The Pig Roast was this weekend and we had a great time – the weather was really nice even though rain was predicted!
Alex and Jason had a blast, they both love tractors so first thing we went out (in pajamas) and let them sit on Grandpa’s tractor
‘Sharing’ 🙂
On Sunday Grandpa got his car out and the kids got to drive that too!
Cruisin
I don’t have my pics off my camera yet, just my phone ones plus I didn’t take any pictures at the actual pig roast, I was too busy talking to people! It was a great turn out (anything is better than last year when we got rain AND cold!).
We were home on Mother’s day weekend and got a little house work done! Then we also had my neighbor over the last 2 Fridays so a little more progress. All on the upstairs hallway.
Ryan got the back wall of the hallway demo’d so you can see the back staircase and attic staircase now. The plan is to put a new wall in that goes straight across and will have 3 doors (bedroom, stairsdown, attic stairs), all that swing in away from the laundry room which is at the end of the hallway in the nook behind the bathroom.
A view from the hallway by the bathroom door. There used to be a wall there 🙂Another view, this is the wall of the attic stairs.
My neighbor got our linen closet spackling done, it’s ready for sanding/priming/painting and a closet system to be installed!!! Can’t wait!
My neighbor also finished the demo on the side wall so the whole back area is ready for electrical and a new wall. Ryan and I got most (1 left) of the recessed lights in the hallway installed and I got the switches and lights mostly wired. Next up is smoke detectors and outlets.
Recessed lights installed down the hallway. Linen closet at the end of the hallway.
I’m very excited, we’re starting demo on the very last few major projects (obviously we still have a lot to finish) but soon demo will be done and it will all be just putting back together instead of a mixture!
Friday our contractor finished the upstairs hallway flooring!
Hallway floor
Our neighbor finished spackling the livingroom over Friday and Saturday and got the linen closet sheetrocked. Our contractor got the closet door installed and Ryan finished installing the bathroom trim. I sanded and primed all the trim on Saturday evening.
Linen closetCloset sheetrocked!
A view of the baseboards primedDoor trime!
Small bit of baseboard on the sink side.
I’m hoping to get some work done in the evenings this week, specifically some electrical so that our neighbor and contractor can sheetrock the front hallway (finish sheetrocking it) on Friday. We hope to continue with 1-2 days a week of their time so things progress along more steadily than when it’s just us working!
Our contractor was here all week. He got the hallway subfloor patched and prepped, got the double door removed from our room so he could frame in the back of the linen closet and got to work putting down the new flooring in the hallway.
End of Thursday progress. We reused old flooring for that small section, then the new stuff for the long hallway.And it goes all they way down to where a new wall will be built later on.
Our new closet door arrived today too (for linen closet) so Ryan will probably install that tomorrow.
Our neighbor is back today spackling. Livingroom is coming along nicely. This weekend we will finish up the bathroom trim, get the vanity installed, ready for our plumber 🙂 We’ll get the door hung for the linen closet. And someone will be coming hopefully to buy the radiators, getting those out of the way! Looking forward to the weekend, and I know Alex is looking forward to her myGym class since she thought we were going there today and kept saying ‘myGym’. Sorry kiddo, just going to the gym at school to run around 🙂
Ryan was able to take a long weekend, taking Thursday and Friday off this week (new year!). This means house progress continued, especially since our contractor and neighbor were also here working!
Ryan got a good start on the trim in the bathroom, each piece had to be made except the rosettes which I stripped down on Friday (my day off). I got the final coat of paint on the walls and ceiling so that we could finish up the electrical in the bathroom Friday, including hanging the new light fixtures. All that is left now is to put in the last 3 pieces of trim (rosettes and top piece of trim over the door) and prime/paint all the trim. Then plumbing!
Trim installedLights installed. And yes that’sa new patch that has to be painted that we saw after the light was in 🙂 Always some touchups.The vanity temporarily set in place so we could figure out baseboards.
Our contractor built a new archway at the top of the stairs, removing the old one that was in a less desirable locaton. Then he started framing out a linen closet that we’ll squeeze in at the end of the hallway next to the chimney. I’m very excited about this closet! Ryan also removed the last piece of wall that was next to the old chimney we removed. So next up is starting the hallway floor repair work.
Linen closet!New archway
Our neighbor came over Friday and started taping the front livingroom, all seams are done except the vertical corners so that’s coming along quite nicely!
What a strange weekend we had. Saturday I was feeling so much better from my cold finally so we worked on the house (knowing we had only one day this weekend since Ryan had a bunch of work work to do on sunday). First we ran to the dump to drop off the final loads from last weekend, then over to pick up our new windows from Marvin.
Home again we decided to continue the demolition in the upstairs diningroom so we could put up the new wall for the hallway. It was very messy demo due to the insulation in the ceiling and we only did half of the ceiling (just enough to put up the new wall), since the master bathroom will not be done for a long while and i’d rather get the floor down before we demo the rest (it’s not fun cleaning demo debri from the upstairs and downstairs due to cracks in the subfloor). The demo went pretty quickly (poor Ryan had to do all of it) but I helped with bagging it all up and now we have another dump load for another weekend waiting outside (hopefully before it snows!).
With that completed I spent about an hour vacuuming up the exposed insulation and the debri. Finally we started the new wall. We left a few of the studs out so there’s a makeshift doorway to get through for now (since we’re not finishing the bathroom for a while we’ll use it as our ‘guest room’ while we work on the nursery – need to put the bed someplace!).
Finally with the wall in and secured to both the upper and lower joists it was time to remove the jacks to see if the floor had any less movement or not. It has definitely improved, it still moves (the joists included) if you jump on it so we may need to take future measures but there was definite improvement over before.
Ceiling demolition
And the other sideNew wall started (still needs 2 more studs and blocking but it's enough for now).
Unfortunately on Sunday, even though we knew Ryan wouldn’t be able to work on the house I still had hopes to get a few things done but I woke up with a sore throat and headache (cold really doesn’t want to go away). The sore throat was probably due to not drinking enough water on saturday because staying hydrated sunday certainly helped. So while Ryan worked I crashed on the couch with some Pride & Prejudice and stitched as well as napped.
Stitching Progress update. Making good progress on this piece.
Then the stomach bugs came to our house. Kind of. Fitz was the first to go down. Sometime after dinner he got sick (right in his bed too), and it was horrible. He continued to get sick 4 times total over the next few hours and we were on high alert for any sign he might need to rush outside. I have a nice big load of dog blankets that need to be washed (waiting to see how today goes first). Poor Fitzy. I finally took away his water (since he was just throwing it back up) and he was okay through the night.
Of course then later in the evening I got a bit of a bug (or just an IBS attack). I was up till 3am with uncontrollable shivers every 20 minutes or so. Not fun. Poor Fitz and I are quite the pair. So I decided to work from home today due to my lack of sleep and wanting to be able to keep an eye on Fitz (who is acting fine but wants to eat grass now – can’t find any! – which makes me think he’s not better yet). He is allowed a little water (although he hasn’t touched it yet) and I gave him some yogurt with peanut butter for breakfast so we’ll see how that goes. If he doesn’t get sick he’ll get rice and chicken for dinner tonight. Hopefully whatever it was has passed and he can go to his new daycare tomorrow.
I myself am feeling better, I feel like I always do after an IBS attack so that’s probably what it was (from eating too much yesterday?). I’ll take it easy with what I eat today and stay hydrated. I should be able to work most of the day (maybe a short nap at some point). And poor Fitz is stuck in the room with me so I can keep an eye on him.
That was our weekend – so much fun 🙂 I am very excited about the house progress, we can now put down hardi-backer in the master bathroom area and make it into a temporary guest room with sheets for walls and the bed moved in there. Then the nursery clean out project begins and eventually we’ll demo that room and get it going!
