The Beginnings of a Baby Room

This was the room before I bought the house.  The teddy bear wall paper in a girl that I know is now in college's room tells me that perhaps she did not spend too much time with her dad.

Just another view.

I did not document the transformation of this room very well, but see the heater below.  While my parents were here, my dad took that off the wall since I now have heating to the top floor.  Here is my mom showing us all how to clean the windows prior to priming them.

This is a view of the room with me standing at the window. I could not get a picture that direction because there was too much light.  For those of you who are not oriented...the door on the right you are looking at my bed with a carseat on it.  The door on the right goes out to the hallway and the middle door is a closet that does no have a whole lot of space because the vents now go through it.  The gray was a little darker than I expected, but I could only pain with what I already had, so I can't complain.  I will make it work.  Now that it is dry I don't think it it too bad anyway.

This is the new light in the room.  If you look at the first picture you will see that there was a lovely white fan in the room before, which has now been replaced.  Updates to come as they are completed.

The Kitchen Update

 Remember this kitchen.  Well it is no more.

Here is a walk down memory lane...with some new memories.

Yucky floor.

Here is the doorway that I had to remove the frame off the door.  I ended up putting spakling all round and just painting the walls blue like the rest of the kitchen.

This is not a very clear picture, but the wall is completely primed.  Covering up the old green wall enough to paint it. 

Prepping all around the kitchen window above the sink.

This is what the painting around that window now looks like, minus the tape and plastic.

Here is the finished blue wall and freshly painted window and door frame.  Painted the same off-white color as the cabinets.  All done with help of my mom.

Here I am...not looking my best, but you can see my big belly and the wall that is painted completely blue around the door frame.  Plus, you can see the tiling behind the stove that me and both my parents did.

Well, there you have it.  Thanks Mom and Dad for your help.  Could not have completed it without you.  More projects that were completed while they were here to come.

Oh Yeah And...

The shower doesn't drain properly.  I have showered in it once and had to turn the water off four times so that it wouldn't overflow.  Hope I can get that fixed soon. Plus, the inside of the shower never dries.  How do I fix that problem?  I left the bathroom fan on for hours.  Days later the base of the shower is still wet. I would love suggestions.

Um, What?

Remember the freezer that would not open?  Well, I carefully removed the molding so that I had full access to the freezer.  It stayed that way for about a week.  I brought some questions to the service HD about the measurements that were done and why the freezer didn't have enough room.  The builders came out and replaced some cabinet doors that were painted a little funky.  They were supposed to be checking out my options for the molding around the door.  When I came home from work I saw that the molding had been placed back around the door frame.  I just started to laugh.  Once again...I have no access to the freezer.  This was last week.  I have to admit, I haven't taken the molding off again.  The idea is just exhausting.  So, once again I look at the freezer and think....hhhmmm.  I will put that off for another day.

This week was not a great weight week.  On Saturday I had spent 10.5 hours in the yard.  That is equivalent to 3000 kcalories in one day.  It didn't help.  I gained 1 pound.  Oh well, I didn't really eat junk, but I know that with big workouts I tend to gain weight (weird).

Shower Power

 For all of the impatient readers...here is the shower.  If I post everything now, there won't be anything to talk about for the next few weeks.  A girl can only get so many things completed.  Here is the shower from standing in my bedroom.  The lettuce green walls are not so overpowering without the overhead light on, but they are still going to be going soon.  I was going to do it this weekend and then I decided that I should do outside work.  Winter is on its way and when it is here I will have plenty of time inside to complete painting projects, and other little indoor tasks.

This is a look from inside the bathroom.  There is not a ton of room in the room to get a decent pic.  Yep, once again it has a yellow tint.  It is a mixture of the light in the bathroom and my camera.  You get the gist though....clear glass (cheaper), but quality glass and frame.  It was much better than what I had in there and couldn't get lined up.  I have lived and "maybe" I have learned not to attempt showers.  I make no promises though.  I still have this idea that I could do it.  It was the money that I would have to put into it before I got it right that was actually holding me back.

Kitchen Knobs and Pulls

This one is for Lee, who pointed out that I have not displayed my pulls and knobs up close.  They do match the faucet coloring.  Here they are for a closer viewing.

Various Home Updates

 Here is the shower again.  The colors look much better today, not so yellow.  There are three gray walls.  Today the shower faucet and handle were put in.  One step closer to a finished shower.  Ignore the dirt in the bottom of the shower from the worker.

 They were not supposed to put the toilet back in.  I was planning on putting it in myself for way less money.  I came home and the toilet was back in.  I had plans to repaint the room before putting the toilet back in.  Luckily it won't cost me a cent.

 The is the sink, now in working order.   The water in the bathroom is lovely.

 This is the distance between the wall and the toilet.  It is going to be difficult to paint behind the toilet, but I am not taking it back off.

 Another view from of the toilet.

The kitchen faucet that was just put in on Monday.  Yay! Of course there had to be another problem here.  I put the hand sprayer up for the photo, but it leaks.  I have to order another one now.

Why No Shower Yet?

 Well, you are going to have to be creative and pretend that these pictures are not all tinted yellow.  It is going to be fixed today before I can get more pictures of what was wrong.  The base of the shower has been in for weeks.  I had ordered a white gray color.  Then they came to put in the walls and it turned out that the company who made them finished the wrong sides.  No problem...a solution was created.

Well, then the caddy box was opened....oh look it is a lighter white gray.  Suddenly, a realization was made by me that the walls and the base were not the color I ordered, they are gray white (darker).  They looked good (I promise they do even if the pictures look terrible).  All of the boxes stated that they were the same color.  Well, this means that the extra wall piece to fix the prior solution was probably going to be the wrong color.  Whoops!  I am going to keep the base and the wall and just have them order the same gray color to fix the problem.

What are those bars you say.  Well, they are to adhere the walls (which are a stone) to the walls behind it.  The walls are not completely straight.  The whole old house has special little crooked areas all over.  Don't worry it is not the foundation...just age.  I find myself getting more crooked daily as well.

Trials, Trials Everywhere

I have been blessed...the fridge arrived safely, but with it came another trial.  Trials, trials everywhere.  They are in my feet and in my hair.  Is there anyway I will be able to get food in there?  Uh nope.  It looks good in my opinion, but the drawer for the freezer does not open.  It was such a tight fit that it hits the trim on the wall.

 If you look closely it was so tight to get it in that I had to removed the smaller trim on the left edge of the door to get the fridge into place.  The smaller trim is hanging schewampus.  I have left the plastic on the fridge until I do whatever I am going to do about it.

 This is a picture of the drawer being pulled out until it hits the trim.  The trim is the straight piece on the right.

 This is looking down at the fridge from standing position.  Look how far my drawer will pull out.  I don't think I can get any food in there.  Could you?

So I am left with the question of what to do with the trim.  If I could find some extremely narrow wood I could create some sort of trim,  Or no trim?  You can see that every other doorway in the house has trim.  What to do, what to do?

Guess who gets a Fridge Tomorrow

Yep...me!  I haven't been so excited about anything in my house yet.

Counters and Sink

 Yesterday I got my counters placed.  I really like them so far, but it is true I haven't used them yet.  Plus, I like the look of my sink.  The only problem is that it isn't usable yet.  In the next day of so I should have the sink hooked up. Yay!

My stove here will also be hooked up at the same time as the sink.  I was told that the plumber does the gas link.  I am really excited to have a working stove.  Not having one since May I have become very appreciate of the abilities of a stove.  The microwave in the picture is hooked up which is a plus.  Slowly but surely the kitchen is coming together.  I have paint for the room, but I am afraid that the tiling if going to wait until I have the money to do the project.

I Got a New Railing

 This is the old amazing railing that was in my house when I moved in.  It is difficult to see the beauty of the slathered porcelain/weird paint.  It drove my friend Natalie nuts, so she removed the top of the railing with a hammer. 

I will admit that part of me was happy it was gone, but the other part of my was scared to death.  See the board on the end of the railing, well, it is actually dry wall.  Every time I would walk up there with the lights out I would worry about either going through the drywall or impaling myself on what was left of the railing.  After months of concern I got my dad to help me tackle this project.

 My stairwell was a bit of a hazard for a couple of days.  My dad did some demolition and then we went about measuring, measuring, and measuring.  Then to HD to get the supplies.  I started to take pictures a little late, but I think that you get the idea.

 These are my beautiful newel posts.  My dad cut them the right length and then be drilled and screwed large screws into the bottom of the posts to our hearts content.  My dads hands became pretty cramped...I mainly held things.  Occasionally I got the drill.

 These boards were my drilling success.  I was to excited to drill all the holes down the center of the boards.  I think that they turned out rather well indeed.

 Here is what it currently looks like.  Eventually I am going to paint it white with the rest of the trim upstairs, but for now I am just happy not to impale myself on it.

 It is difficult to see here the wood covering up the metal brackets holding the pole in.  We did some creative covering.  I think that it turned out rather well though.

 It is a beauty!

Oh the Joy of Cabinets

 I was so happy when I came home to this scene at my house.  As I left for work today my cabinetry was being installed.  This area is where the fridge was previously.  Now it is where the stove will reside.  The stove is scheduled to come tomorrow.  Bad news is that I won't be home.  Good news is that my Uncle Jeff was kind enough to step in and help me out once again.  Yay!  They will be taking my old decrepit stove, which has been residing on the back porch with my toilet.

 Here is the home of my new fridge.  I am sad that my new fridge won't arrive until October.  Oh well, you win some and you lose some.

This shot is just what it looks like.  This is the cabinetry for the sink.  I am so excited to have my farmhouse sink in place.  I am not sure why it gives me so much joy, but I am going to be so happy when I have a functioning kitchen again....or actually for the first time since May.