We are on an every-other weekend schedule going out to work on the house and this weekend Alex stayed with her grandparents so we could go out by ourselves and make more progress! It was a productive day and a half for sure.
Saturday Ryan worked on trim all day – starting with the master bedroom, putting up window trim. We need to buy more window apron trim but he got what we had up and the windows look great!
3 windows even have aprons!
3 without aprons (plus we need aprons for the back bedroom and master bath)
Next up he worked on baseboards. He couldn’t finish the uptairs hallway shadow boxes and chair rail because the door for the master bedroom needs to be installed, and before that it needs to be stripped, so we packed it up and brought it back and Ryan will strip it here and we’ll bring it back ready to install.
Had to cut the old baseboard down to match and then put in a new piece.
Notice the blue rug at the top of the stairs is gone! Floor looks great underneath. We didn’t take it off all the stairs just this section so far.
Baseboards continue around the linen closet and down the hallway on one side.
And partially around the washer/dryer stand
This is the door to the attic trimmed out (no pic before) and technically there’s baseboard on the right side of it too…
I focused on ceilings and electrical this weekend. First I hooked up smoke detectors so we now have all the smoke detectors hooked up and connected! I also put a light in at the top of the back stairs and a bunch of the covers for the HVAC in the ceilings (and recessed lights have covers now)..
Light at the top of the stairs in the back and smoke detector all hooked up 🙂
Covers on HVAC and another smoke detector (had to do upstairs and downstairs but didn’t bother taking pics of all of them!)
Washer and dryer outlets and put the trim piece on the drain/water thing.
The washer/dryer stand is just about ready – we have to put a piece of trim around it and water proof it, then we’ll bring up the washer/dryer and then we can put the last door in place at the top of the back stairs.
On Sunday we worked a few hours on the master bathroom. We had our neighbor clean up the ceiling in the bathroom and start sheetrocking a bit (just one section) on Saturday. Ryan put in the ceiling fan/light box Sunday morning and then we ran all the rough electrical in there (outlets and lights).
Sheetrock on one small wall 🙂
Fan installed, just need to hook up that wire.
Wiring for lights and outlets by vanity
We drew out the plans for the vanity and the shower so we’re ready to finish the rough-in plumbing hopefully this week. We’re going to order what we need for the bathroom this week too (need the vanity placement so we can plan the light boxes exactly).
So the master bathroom has been started, trim work continues nicely and electrical is going along. I replaced a bunch of the switches with the nice rockers we are using and started putting in outlets in the upstairs hallway.
The next trip out we’ll have Alex so probably getting more trim done and I’ll get a bit more electrical done during naps and such.
OH – and we got the built-in doors hung – they need a tiny bit of sanding down to close nicer and then touch up painting in place, then we’ll put knobs and magnet pieces on and they’ll be done…
They look nice with doors on!