Someday my birthday party planning with simply be planning for a party (favors, decorations etc.) but like last year we have a huge push to get the house as done as possible before the party since this is the only time of year some of our family gets to see our house! So the big push continued last weekend.
Friday my neighbor came over and finished filling nail holes and got the upstairs linen closet taped. Saturday he came back and sanded ALL the trim in the livingroom and diningroom (including ceiling boxes). Not a fun job!
Ceiling boxes are pretty much where they will be for party
There is some hope we’ll get them caulked and primed but I’m not actually that hopeful (ryan is). We’ll see.
Our contractor was only here Saturday and he got baseboard caps installed in the kitchen, baseboards on the backs/sides of cabinets and baseboards in the front hallway (the one section we can do currently).
Hard to see but those baseboards finally have caps!
And this little hallway off the kitchen has baseboard caps too!
Baseboards in the front hallway
The front hallway is basically where it’s going to be for the party as well, although I do hope to maybe get the ceiling painted so I can install the light. Not a deal breaker though.
Ryan and I caulked all the trim in the livingroom and diningroom Saturday, sanded (and scraped) the big archway in the livingroom and Ryan finished putting up any trim that was missing (a few of the shadow boxes in the wainscotting and the plinth blocks in the front hallway). Saturday was a busy day handing off toddler duty and house work.
I stained the oak knee wall caps the color we will stain our floors when we refinish them!
The other one and the trim all primed
Saturday night we stayed up till 1am priming all the trim in the livingroom – yikes!
Trim all primed!
Sunday was another busy day but Ryan had to work so it was just me painting when I could fit it in. Alex decided to skip her nap but she was in her crib from noon-three (with some breaks where we went in to rock her to see if that would help – it didn’t). But it was a few hours for me to paint and then the evening when Ryan watched her. First I finished up priming all the trim in the diningroom (not the ceiling or columngs, but the baseboards and windows).
Baseboards primed
Baseboards wrap around and end at the edge of cabinet
Windows are all primed!
And finally some actual paint …
Hard to see but it’s linen white, the wainscoting is all going to be this solid color along with all the trim. The walls will be a light brown later on.
Some poly on the knee wall caps
This side of the archway and 2 windows are painted
Painting takes a while because there’s a lot of surface area! But hopefully a little progress each night will be made. Once we get a coat on I want to get 1 coat on the walls so we can see the finished look just about. This whole working in the evenings only works if work isn’t busy but here’s hoping, I need some evenings off, been a busy few months!