Weekend Progress?

[wawa]

Get anything done over the weekend?

Share! PiP if you've got 'em.

[ssmjlm]

The baby's closet system is all done! But of course I need to take pictures. And DH needs to caulk all the trim in the closet and nursery.

One side is all shelves and the other side is 2 hanging bars.

[wawa]

With some help from the IL's, this weekend we wrapped up a bunch of lingering to-dos.

We now have trim in the living room and all the rooms upstairs, 1st coat of paint on all walls, the living room hearth is demo'd (we're eventually putting a new piece of stone in there...it was very blah terracotta tile before), all the light fixtures installed upstairs, the toilet and all the shower fixtures installed in the master bath, the master bedroom trim puttied, sanded and caulked, the living room trim puttied sanded and partially caulked, and the baby's room mostly puttied.

Hopefully by the end of this week we'll have all the trim upstairs puttied, sanded and caulked and painted.

Demo'd Hearth:


Master BR w/ trim:


Back bedroom w/ trim (and dropcloths on the floor since we were painting):


Baby room w/ trim and paint! (yes, the much debated purple-gray. I like it. Looks a little more purple than real life in this picture thanks to the pinkish rosin paper on the floor. the color near the ceiling is more TTL)


ETA: Forgot the master bath!

[thewop]

We purged the basement. There was a massive pile of junk corner and I told H I wanted it all gone. I didn't care what it was. It was out. It was old empty DVD cases, old magazines, and empty boxes. I had the H put a dresser that was out in the garage in the basement so I could have a place to put all my laundry stuff. We also did 90% of our laundry.

[bunnymendelbaum]

So. Much.

-painters/ drywallers finished and I went a little berserk putting the house back together.
-nursery DONE!
-guest/playroom at 85% (need ceiling light & window blind)
-living room is no longer a messy playroom! It still has toys but all concealed.
-DDs room clean and back together.

-we also went to 2 parties and had a cookie making party!

I'll PIP soon. Doing naptime right now.

ETA:
Living room cleaned but empty:


Nursery sneak peak:




Play/guestroom:

[statlerwaldorf]

I didn't get anything done. We have all been sick. I finally got the bedding for DD's room I ordered from Kohls on Black Friday.

[sjh722]

We moved Saturday!

Also, installed counters on Friday and the stove and kitchen sink yesterday, lol.

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Dec 17, 2012 14:03:14 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

Nursery sneak peak:

Was this the chair you posted about a while back? It looks really good in this room.

[wawa]

bunny - I LOVE the nursery color! that looks great! And the dark trim looks really good in the LR and guestroom/playroom.

[Deleted]

We didn't actually do anything ourselves but it has been a big week for the new house. The plumbing, electrical, and HVAC were installed during the week. Followed by the weekend when my awesome new house was in our local paper.
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This is one of the pics that they printed in an article about new home construction in the area. It was taken by the newpaper people on Saturday and the roof is now ready for tiles. Yahoo. My house is famous.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Thanks!
That is my $20 goodwill chair cleaned up. I love it. Colors are perfect and it is so freaking comfortable!
I'm going to do a full nursery reveal on my blog, but I want to borrow a friend's nice camera.

[FoxInFiji]

A lot got done on the floors.

- filled every crack and nail hole in the new HW floors with two colors of solvent based filler
- constructed the plastic zipper wall and taped off every vent and open electrical box
- I rented the sanders (mini ordeal getting them and loading them into the truck)
- sanded the floors
- more filler
- lots more sanding
- bought a new square hand sander because the edger wasn't cutting it
- more sanding
- vacuumed the floors
- tack clothed every inch
- searched for over an hour for the 18" lambswool applicator I bought, gave up and then built our own from a 2x6 and the lambswool refill we had
- started polying
- gave up on the make shift applicator and did all 800 sf with two 5" applicators meant for the edges
- finish at 1am last night
- return sander before work this morning

- attend two holiday parties and my Dad's birthday party (accounting for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights)
- get some Christmas shopping done on Saturday morning but not finish due to insanely long lines and no parking

So guess what I was doing at lunch today? Calling all over town to find a new lambswool applicator and lots of the Tri Krete sandpaper made for poly. I get to do the whole floor by myself tonight sweee! I'll do pretty much anything to move out of the basement though.

[FoxInFiji]

Wawa - Way to cross off all those items off your to do list! Those paint colors look great and the master bathrooms is looking more and more like a luxurious spa. I love it! We moved into the basement last week in a rush to get the floors in. We were bummed to have to give up our pretty new bathroom and live in a rec room surrounded by everything we own haphazardly tossed in boxes/bins. But I reminded myself you had been living in your basement for far longer than we will so I shouldn't complain. Haha!

Bunny - That nursery looks amazing! I love how all of the furniture pieces work together and still compliment the style of your home. The guestroom turned out so good as well.

[wawa]

Holy hell fox! You guys are so much better than we are at getting shit done. if we had plans every night there is no way we'd have gotten that much done. We stink at getting up early and buckling down if we were out and about the night before. You rock!

and welcome to basement life! Also doesn't help with the waking up bright and early thing...it's so nice and dark down there.

[amblor]

DH finally got all the flooring laid in the nursery and the baseboards cut out and placed where they are going. I organized all of our papers in the office form 2010 and worked on the baby scrapbook.

[FoxInFiji]

Dec 17, 2012 17:00:45 GMT -5 wawa said:

Holy hell fox! You guys are so much better than we are at getting shit done. if we had plans every night there is no way we'd have gotten that much done. We stink at getting up early and buckling down if we were out and about the night before. You rock!

and welcome to basement life! Also doesn't help with the waking up bright and early thing...it's so nice and dark down there.

LOL we're not good at getting up early we just stay up really late. DH works nights so noon is pretty early for him. We got stuff done Friday and Sunday night but Saturday we were at my awesome work party until after midnight.

Our basement life isn't quite as bad because we have an exposed/walk out basement. So on the finished half where we are there are two 6'x4' windows and a patio door to bring in light. The fact that we don't have any of the drywall patched or the wall where we took the fireplace out built yet is kind of crummy though. We have a clear site to our furnace and water heater from the bed so there are lots of strange noises to get used to while you're trying to sleep. But being forced to use only the gross basement bathroom again is just awful. We've already done that (from July '11 - April '12) and we're over it! Also we can't find anything...as can be noted in the "we lost the one piece of equipment we need to poly" line. I think I will be washing and re-wearing the 12 work shirts I kept out from now until we move back into the bedroom.

The bright side is that the floors look gorgeous! They were pretty before but the first layer of poly really brought them to life. It's like night and day. I will never regret going through the effort of using oil based poly. We should be able to get 4 layers on and allow for some dry time by the weekend so now DH is talking about epoxy grouting and wet drywall sanding this weekend. I told him the drywall sanding just isn't happening with floors that fresh and hey Earth to DH it's Christmas weekend I still have presents to buy and nothing is wrapped! Jeez.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Fox I commend you for DIYing the floors. It is such hard work!

[wawa]

Dec 17, 2012 18:05:14 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

Fox I commend you for DIYing the floors. It is such hard work!

ditto. We didn't even contemplate doing that one ourselves.

I can't wait to see how they look!

[ssmjlm]

I finally took some iPhone pics of the closet:

[FoxInFiji]

Dec 17, 2012 19:00:10 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

Fox are these your sheoga floors? How do you like them so far?

I love them! They were really well milled with no warping. We could litterally use every single piece if we had to...and we almost did because my CAD file of our house is apparently not as accurate on the sf measurements in the spare bedrooms LOL. There are only a few minor end spots where one board is higher than the other and we were able to sand most of them out. We only used a little 80 grit and a bunch of 100 and 120 grit so that says a lot right there on how smooth the boards were pre-sanding. They had zero issues with boards fitting together. Everything was nice a tight save for a handful of boards that had a splintered edge but that was due to the way they were packaged (not boxed just plastic straps holding it together) not the milling itself.

The clear/select grade hickory is exactly what I wanted. I'm a not a fan of knots and mineral streaks which are all too common in hickory and few places even have that option in unfinished. We loved how they looked so much that we just decided to only finish with poly and not do the light stain I was originally wanting to do (to even out the colors and hide any imperfections). The 4" wide plank gives it a bit of a rustic feel and helps with the overall look IMO because there are less boards and less noticeable seams where it goes from dark to light. DH took off work and installed them with his dad and they did a good job on selecting the boards so that the grains and color lined up between boards. There aren't too colors of light pieces next to each other or very different grain patterns within the same row. It almost looks like one continuous board across the room in some spots. My FIL used to be a carpenter and has installed a lot of flooring (prefinished hickory in his own house and in his father's house) and he was super impressed with the quality. We got it for about the same price per sf he got his prefinished flooring on sale at Menard's. Then we had $80 in rental fees and $300 in poly so they were very affordable. I think he's a bit jealous.