With the amount of work ryan had to do this weekend, he really surprised me when he said he’d do house work on sat and just work Sunday.  I had not been getting my hopes up with the late nights he’s been pulling that he’d have time this weekend.

Saturday we got to work on the drawers, ryan hung the last bit of hardware for the drawer slides, then we built the last 4 drawers!  Next we made face frames for them all with a nice routed top and attached them.  All 10 drawers are finally done!  Just doors to finish up and the built-ins will be done.

The right hand cabinet with finished drawers!

The middle cabinets with finished drawers

And the left hand cabinet with drawers - that's 10 total!

After that we put together the glider we got for the nursery (our first nursery purchase).   For now it will live in our room because we don’t have a place for it and Fitz is not a fan when it moves 🙂

As if that wasn’t enough for a day, Ryan said he would hang one of the tvroom doors if I could find the door and door frame I wanted to use.  Unfortunately this was harder than I though and he almost put in three frames before we found the real matching frame for the original door.  (The frame was hiding).  And we have a door (Fitz is also not a fan of this 🙂 )

Door to the front entry hung! This swings out into the entryway as it originally did.

After that we settled in for some chili for dinner and went to bed early.  Sunday Ryan had to work so I decided I would do some spackling and then end the day with some sewing while he watched the big game.  There was one section up by the crown molding that needed to be spackled so I got 2 coats on that (maybe one more needed) and I got the closet corners all taped and a skim coat on both the left side and back walls (including the ceiling).

I think in general I need one more skim coat on every surface and the closet will be ready to be sanded!  Considering how this started I’m very impressed with it.

Corner taped and another coat on the seam of this wall. Taping that curved seam was HARD!

Ceiling got a good skim coat as well as that left wall. This side did not get taped since it was in decent shape (not great shape) but didn't have a hole that needed taping at least.

And a view of the back wall, after this I actually skim coated that whole descending wall so everything except the right wall has a skim coat or more now.

While I was skim coating I think Ryan was looking for a break because he said that if I got everything set up and found a door and door frame (for sure this time) he would install the other door in the tvroom!  I dropped everything and went on the hunt.  This door originally was replaced by a newer door so I had to go through the collection of ‘removed’ doors and frames to find one for this spot – and we were in luck!

Door from the tvroom to the kitchen area installed!

A view of the built-ins and the door hung 🙂

That leaves only 1 more door (which I’ve already picked out) to be hung in the tvroom – the closet door.  It’s kind of nice to wait until the spackling is done though in there first (almost!).  We can start baseboards (which will make the built-ins look more finished) anytime now!

At this point I was going to caulk the built-ins but the game was about to start and I would have been blocking the tv so instead I went up to my sewing room and spent the next 4 hours making up a crib skirt for my sister’s nursery (hey it’s never too late – well it’s not too late yet – my nephew does still use a crib) 🙂

Pleated crib skirt, the main material is white with green stripes and the pleats are solid green that match the stripes nicely.

A better view of the pleats.

The only reason that took so long is that I overlocked every seam so it could put up with harsh washing (not that it will but just in case).  This probably wasn’t necessary but I had the time and it was good practice (i’ll have to make one of these for my nursery soon and being a dust fanatic it will definitely get washed a lot).  AND I used up 2 spools of thread almost on this – overlocking uses a lot of thread!  Me thinks I need a surger soon 🙂

What a great amount of progress we made!  I can really see a finish in sight for the tvroom which is good since pretty soon we’ll be switching gears to start the nursery and focusing on that room!.  I’ve planned out what I want to do storage wise in the closet in the tvroom which has motivated me to finish that soon so I can get some stuff stored in there (I currently have no closets downstairs at all!).