Check!

MORE PROGRESS!!  Of course, life doesn't stop while you're renovating so I've added some big milestones to my list (in my opinion, of course!)

• New tires on car... Check!
• 5 MORE gallons of ceiling paint (already spent 5)... Check! 
• Metro Heating and Cooling FINALLY scheduled to come replace furnace... Check!
• Duct cleaning for two units - with two different companies, scheduled.  Check!
• Jimmy The Sandman scheduled to refinished 2,300 sq. ft. of hardwoods... Check!
• ALL Christmas gifts purchased & wrapped... Check!
• 2 baby shower gifts + wrapped... Check!
• Tom's brother's wedding gift + wrapped + delivered... Check!  (i'll stop with the check! thing now)
• Beam in kitchen stained... I can't take credit - Rick and Josh did this, but its done!
• MORE casing cut to exactly replicate existing casing AND some of it is INSTALLED!

Nice smile Josh!!  Josh and Tom were using our custom made router bit to cut casing to exactly match the existing.  I think its pretty neat we did this - those bits were NOT cheap!

The router they were using... thankfully they did it safely!

We were at the house until 9:45 last night.  Then - got dinner.  Ick.

Tom has two nice cuts from his recent work.  :/

Last night we were installing flooring in the powder room.  I had this great idea of replacing some white tiles (in an all white tile pattern) with navy blue ones.  I've seen people do it before, but no idea how time consuming it was.  I don't think it would have been that bad, had Tom not spent all day working and it was 9 at night.  Plus, this was his first time EVER laying tile.  I don't think he read anything about how to do it - as he started at two ends and tried to meet in the middle.  He measured and measured and measured the floor, but when it came for the last two rows to meet in the middle, they were off by a 1/4".  That sucks.  So, today he is ripping up some of what he did.  I feel for him.  :/

Each of those blue tiles there you see were individually cut out.  Then we had to cut off the glue from each side of each 1x1 inch square.  We also had to cut out the tiles from the 1ft. square of them to fit the blue in.  I think it will look pretty awesome, hopefully pretty custom when its all done.  But man, a bit of extra work.  Tom was not happy with me for wanting to do this... :)  It definitely did take a lot more time.

Those are navy blue walls :)  Stencil pattern yet to be applied. :)

Also, the lady that used to own the house (it was foreclosed on her) - has been living with someone down the street.  Weird, eh?  So, the person she has been living with off and on down the street stopped by the other day.  She gave us the below lantern, that her 'friend' took from the house when it was foreclosed on.  It is apparently original and used to be on the back porch.  Looks pretty sweet I'd have to say!!!!  Let's hope she has more stuff to return - that's original to the house!!!

OH!  And more cabinets are going up today!  Just a few, then we wait on the special order ones.  BUT the wall in the kitchen, where the brick was, is now dry-walled and painted - looks pretty cool!  Frigde is also in place too!  Yahoo!!! :)

Next two/three weeks are EXTREMELY busy for me.  So my early apologies if I'm MIA for a lil.  

Thanks for reading.  Love you all.

H

Of course...

Of course...

• I would make our FINAL scrap run - and NOT take a picture.  AND - it was our biggest one yet!!  Just about $300  (1,750 lbs of cast iron pipe.  HOLY MOLY)
• my daughter wakes up when I begin to type.
• I special order 2 cabinets and two small misc. things from Kraftmaid - and it costs about 1/4 what it cost me to buy 32 cabinets.  Geesh!  I even got the cheapest cabinets you could imagine - no special anything and our 32 cabinets have ALL the bells and whistles!
• Tom and his Dad spent quite a lot of time futsing with our french doors.  Tom and I did the same thing about a month ago (I did post some pics of that).

I could probably keep going - but think I need to start my day!

HAPPY MONDAY YA'LL!!!  Have a great one.

'Shit'

Is what Tom was described as looking early this morning by his boss.

Yowzers.

But, he was up at 4am the last two days and came home at 9pm both days.  I actually fell asleep on the couch waiting for him last night :/  I just want to be able to spend some time with my husband.... but enough of my sappy shit about how tough this reno is.  I think you've gotten that point.

IVE GOT SOME GREAT PICTURES!!!!

But, some updates:

• Ordered flooring, and it came in early!! Yahoo!!!  Here's what it'll look like.  It has some brown from the cabinets, and blue/gray in it too.  I'm thinking it will look great.  To be installed very soon hopefully!

• Electrician is pretty much 98% finished - YAHOO!
• Stain is going well.  Its amazing how much time it takes!  (I'm bummed.  I thought I had a picture of this wood Josh and I stained.  Took 2 of us 45 min. to do the 1st coat of stain.  It was on pieces of wood that go below the window.  Tiny piece of wood, but decorative that make a difference.  Bummer)
• Rick scrubbed the jack n jill floor the other day.  We are trying to salvage the original black and white tile we found underneath tile.  The black and white tile has a bunch of glue stuck to it.  But apparently it is looking pretty good!

  

  Tiled bathroom when we bought the place

  

  Tile we found under tile.

  Jonathan Moran finished the woodwork and vanity.  The vanity was pretty expensive, but it is solidly built - and built by a local woodworker :)  I have been to the house at least 3 times since we got it in, but keep forgetting to find it and look at it!!
• Mickey is moving and groovin.  Its amazing how much drywall work needs done, and patching of plaster, geesh.  Seriously.  And, he worked 33 days without a day off, probably still counting.(he has a day job, he works for us on the nights/wknds).  So, I made Mickey a pumpkin pie (all from scratch, no cans used) to say thank you.  He brought a friend the next day.  :)

Okay, so I wanted to show some house pics in chronological order.  Here goes the kitchen:

 That shit makes me happy!!! :)  And here is another angle, from the dining room, in chronological order :)

And one more set of shots, from the living room, in chronological order :)

Mary Alice literally just saw these picks.  And says, 'That's the new house!... Where Daddy lives.'

That breaks my heart.

But she also said, 'Is Mickey there?'.  'Not Mickey Mouse, Mom.'   :)  She does love Mickey!

CABINETS!

CABINETS ARE IN!!!

CABINETS ARE IN!!!

CABINETS ARE IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

East wall of kitchen

That frosted glass will eventually be changed out with some sort of clear glass and I think the one next to it as well (but that will maybe be after we move in) and all the hardware will be changed too.  

I started looking at pictures of the house before we did anything to it this morning... WOW, what change there has been!!

Tom left the house at 6am yesterday and got home at 8:30.  Left this morning, around 6:30am.

ITS GO TIME!!!

Speaking of which, I should probably go do something productive... BUT... CABINETS ARE IN!!!