Wednesday, August 24, 2011

More Pictures

Jordan's Room Before (nice bright pink)




Jordan's Room after. The first picture is the accent wall which is a darker blue than the other 3 walls.




Fireplace prior to any work


Fireplace with brick and drywall at the top.


The guest room on the first floor across from Jordan's room prior to painting


 Guest room with a closet and no doors but the accent wall same darker blue like Jordan's room and the other 3 walls are lighter blue. This is the section of the wall where the paint just started to peel when we added primer and then tried to paint the dark blue. Dean did a great job to fix it and finally the wall held the paint! All of our bedroom closets have these shelves and clothing rods. They are really nice to have.

This is our room. Walls are worse than we thought and Dean has had to mud all most every inch of wall. It is now primed and he is continuing to sand and mud. Hopefully soon it will be ready to paint. This room is going to be painted the same dark blue color that is the accent walls in the guest room and Jordan's room.

These are the spindles up at the loft area that overlooks the living room. This is where Nicole spent her Saturday.
 These spindles (on the staircase) is where Sarah spent her Saturday cleaning.

 This is a side view of the fireplace with the drywall. Couldnt get it to turn. Sorry! It is amazing.
This is the second bedroom upstairs. We will be using this as an office with a tv and computer. We chose to paint it a light dove gray. It turned out really nice.  On Saturday Riley came up the stairs and saw this room and said, "Mine". So I guess we can say this is Riley's room!

Hope to have additional pictures soon. We will be starting to paint the outside of the house while the scaffolding is up to replace siding. Might as well get as much done as possible instead of moving the scaffolding several times.

Monday, August 22, 2011

It's been a long month!

We have been using almost every spare time to work on the house. We really have gotten a lot accomplished, however it's a bit overwhelming when it is some here and some there. We are getting there though.

Over this weekend we had a great blessing and many family members came down to help. We had 11 people who took on different jobs and made progress. Jordan got the task of power washing the deck. He had a big messy job. The girls, Sarah and Nicole helped by cleaning 60 or 62 spindles for the staircase banister. Staci and Mark were able to completly give two coats of paint to 3 new doors. Judy and Ken have been providing their support, Judy has cleaned and put Old English on all my cabinets in the Kitchen! wow, there is a lot of those. Ken has helped with his expertise of electrical knowledge. He was able to switch some lights around and hang some ceiling fans. Dan, Nicole's boyfriend was a gem and did some serious landscaping trimming some bushes and was able to mow a ditch in the front that was being to look like a small jungle.  Kay, Dean's mom, has been able to come over during the weeks and help paint. My mom has been helping paint some closets and walls. We have many walls that need paint among other things.

We have run into some problems with some of the walls. They have been worse than what we had thought and Dean has had to really put some work into them by mudding and sanding and sometimes mudding again. In one room, we thought we had it almost completely painted and then the paint started to just peel right off. That sucked and we had to start over with mudding and then priming.

We have been really greatful to all those who have helped us. We really could not do it without their help.

The fireplace is almost finished. Here it was before.


Here it is with the bricks done and although this picture doesn't show it, the sheet rock is up above and has been mudded.



Most of the siding has been replaced and ready to paint. There is still some to be replaced I guess that will happen this week.  Here are the new basement doors. They look really nice.

New siding
Hope to have more pictures from the inside soon.