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Traditional Door Headers
I spent this morning caulking and filling all of those headers that Kade made over the weekend. He has been patiently waiting for me to get them done. Hopefully tomorrow I can prime them, then I need to paint them so we can get them up!! They're...
Awesome…just AWESOME!
I guess all of the weeks and MONTHS of hard work on this room are finally paying off! This is what the cabinets looked like this morning after being sprayed with poly yesterday. This little 8" paper was really all I needed to protect the ceiling from overspray with...
FINALLY!!!
DONE! I sprayed two coats of Minwax water based polycrylic on the laundry room / clutter room / pantry cabinets today. HOWEVER...I didn't take any pictures because you couldn't really tell that I had done anything, lol! So...for the sake of having a...
Are We Ready Yet?
This morning I pulled down all of the paper to reveal the crown moulding & base that I still need to paint. Look at how yellow the "primed" crown moulding is compared to the white that I already painted on the cabinets! Kinda gross! Nothing like prep...
SAVED!
Well...maybe saved isn't the right word...but EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK with these gosh darn cabinets!! I lightly sanded them this morning and then gave them another coat of polyurethane. They look great now (well....great enough, lol) The crackle...
Mirror Mirror On The Wall
Kade finally hung up the mirror in the half bath today. I just love that mirror 🙂 It's actually the mirror that goes with the dresser that we're using for the vanity in our hallway bath. (see pics below) Here's the dresser as I bought it. I couldn't...
Window Sills & MORE PAINT!
Look! It's our very first INSTALLED window sill! Don't you love it? I do! Kade did a great job fitting these. EVERY window had to be custom fit. (imagine that!) First one installed was the one over the kitchen sink. It's strange to look...
Ready, Set, SPRAY!
Oh my gosh....as of this morning I was STILL doing prep work. Let me just say...it's not easy to hang giant pieces of plastic by yourself, lol. I had to look almost like a cartoon in there pulling the tape off of the plastic and trying to get the plastic...
Prep Work……stinks!
🙂 Why does prep works ALWAYS take so long?? Today I taped off the INSIDES of all of the cabinets in the clutter room / laundry room. I figured this was the best way to prepare them for spraying paint. This protects all of the "guts" of the cabinets and only...
Little Helpers
Had some little visitors this morning! The Kellys stopped by to drop off some Pampered Chef goodies and to visit for awhile. (IT WAS SO WONDERFUL!!) The kids wanted to help clean up the limbs in the yard that had fallen from our dead tree. It...
Ready to Go…AGAIN
Well...the cabinet boxes are ONCE AGAIN primed and ready to paint! This has got to be the LONGEST cabinet re-do EVER!! At least they're not SUPER yellow anymore! The funny thing is....I honestly tried to convince myself that the yellow tint & streaks just...
Here We Go Again!
I can't believe I really sanded these cabinet boxes in the clutter room / laundry room down and started over!!! I finished them up today Here's a good pic that shows how "yellow" the poly ended up being. In the corner of the crown you can see where the poly'd...
It’s Official!
I . A.M. C.R.A.Z.Y!!!! No, seriously....I'm absolutely, positively, without a doubt, CRAZY!!! Today I picked up the sander... walked in to the clutter room... and sanded the polyurethane off of the cabinet boxes!! I just couldn't take it! I knew I wouldn't be...
For Better or for Worse 🙂
That's how I feel about the clutter room cabinet doors at this point 🙂 Today I put the final coat of paint on them. I need to look back and see exactly when I started working on these cabinets (or maybe I don't, I'm sure what I find would be SUPER...
This and That
Today was one of those days that was just a little bit of everything. First thing I did this morning was run down and check the wash tub that I bought for the laundry sink. water level looked good... don't see anything around the bottom... and NOTHING...
Oh, July!
July has been quite the month for us. No major visible progress on the house, just small things like caulking for hours and painting trim, etc. All of the finishing touches that we need to make upstairs. Not much picture worthy anyway. So...in...
Party Time!
Yesterday we celebrated an upcoming wedding! Jeff & Sidney's wedding will be here soon! We had the bridal shower in the afternoon and then the bachelor/bachelorette party was after that - celebrated just like a big party. It was quite nice I must...
Celebrate!
Today was an exciting day! We got to install 2 (yes, that's right, TWO) of our appliances!! WOO-HOO! It's looking more and more like a home every day! We started out with the micro-hood....looks pretty nice there I'd say! We got this for one heck of...
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