Last weekend I took Friday off of work (kind of, I still came home to work all evening but the intention was there and I had the *DAY off) 🙂

My friend Sarah recently just bought a new house and had a few projects she wanted to do so I went down there to help her out.  The main project was sanding down the railings and adding a coat of poly since they were so rough.  We did a few other projects too but she’s having the whole house prepped and re-painted so that didn’t have to be done.

The weekend it was back to working on our own house.  Saturday we drove around all morning looking for trim we liked and ended up finding something decent we are happy with.  This is for the chair rail and shadow boxes in the livingroom.  While we were gone our contractor and neighbor were working away.  The vertical posts were covered nicely and then baseboards installed in the diningroom.

See that beam on the left of the knee wall.

And this beam is also done

Baseboards are in (still need cap molding but we dont’ have it yet).

Baseboards in the livingroom were started (cupola mostly done).

Livingroom cupola baseboards

And our neighbor finished spackling the front hallway and closet.  So spackle wise we have one section of the diningroom being left un-done for now and the upstairs hallway left.  I hope this weekend to have him sand and prime what is done on Friday!

Front hallway

Towards the door

Stairway (just the bottom 1/2 is done, my neighbor is afraid of heights!)

Front closet

Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning Ryan’s project (with my help) was the moldings on the cabinets.  As you see, the taller cabinets have a very complicated multi-piece molding.  It’s kind of crazy actually.  We even modified it and removed 2 of the backer pieces by lowering the very top molding or it would have been an inch taller than it is now!  So first Ryan got one tall cabinet done, then he did the smaller cabinets that just have cove moldings.

Saturday progress (these 2 cabinets)

Sunday progress – these 3 lower cabinets – just 1 more cabinet to go!

During naptime Saturday I also got the molding on around the microwave cutout, we completely forgot we bought this molding but it was in with all the cabinet crown!

Looks much better now!

And finally my last project for the weekend was getting the final coat of paint on the bathroom door!  It’s all ready to hang now!

Door done, my little helper helping to put hinges on

All in all a very good weekend.  If my neighbor is good with priming walls, then this weekend we’ll start the chair rail and shadow boxes!  I need to pick the next door to start refinishing (probably a tvroom door) and we have some electrical to do (I need to hook up that microwave outlet and remove a bunch of knob and tube just sitting around).