I took the night off of work last night and after Alex went to bed, and after dinner I got some painting done! I got 2 more sides of the livingroom trim painting done (the archway wall and the knee walls as well as the window on the front wall). So the livingroom just has …
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 …
Aimee, Jason and little Jason welcomed little Madelyn to the family last friday! Alex and I drove down for 5 days in CT to hang out with little Jason and make the time that Aimee and Jason were in the hospital a little easier on him (Alex is a fun distraction). Little Jason did great, …
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 …
It’s been a few weeks since I posted progress from the house so we have a few updates. On top of that fact, my in-laws came out this weekend and extra progress was made with their help! Let’s start with the Diningroom! Our contractor has finished up the beams/boxes for the cofferred ceiling and they …
This weekend was full of progress on various things. Friday our neighbor taped the diningroom (the part we can tape) and our contractor started on the cofferred ceiling boxes. On Saturday they both were installing the boxes and we have the sides on for most of the boxes (just the bump out part is left). …
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Another great weekend of house progress. Our contractor and our neighbor were over Friday and Saturday, they got the sheetrock finished in the diningroom (the part we can do), the first round of taping in the upstairs hallway (and stairwell!) finished and the archway in the livingroom stripped the rest of the way! Woohoo! Then …
Our contractor and neighbor came on Friday and Saturday again this week so lots of progress was made! Friday our contractor started stripping the archway in the livingroom. Even though there is no lead paint in this (we had everything tested so we know where the lead paint is – upstairs mostly), I wanted the …
The front livingroom now has all been taped, our neighbor got out of work early yesterday so he came over and taped the vertical seams. Moving along nicely! It’s great! Our contractor is here today, working on the upstairs hallway floor project this week. After this week we’re hoping he can commit to one-two days …
Ryan was able to take a long weekend, taking Thursday and Friday off this week (new year!). This means house progress continued, especially since our contractor and neighbor were also here working! Ryan got a good start on the trim in the bathroom, each piece had to be made except the rosettes which I stripped …