There were a lot of hands working at the house this week,
making more progress on our remodel journey. Early in the week the “demo guys”
returned and gutted the guest bathroom.
After the wood floors are refinished downstairs we will begin the update
of that bathroom and the guest room next to it.
I look forward to showing pictures of that update – we have some very
fun ideas to turn it into enticing “guest quarters” for our friends and family
to come visit!
But back to this week’s progress…our dedicated painter, who
powered through a couple days of a cold, finished painting in the kitchen. She gave the tired-looking cabinets a fresh
coat of white paint, and also gave us some great accent green on the walls and
in the back of the cabinets.
I spent some time this week staining the kids’ vanity doors
and cabinet fronts. I never realized how
long it takes to prep, stain and finish cabinets! I think I need to invent a quick-drying stain
J. I know the kids are ready to have their
bathroom to use.
Chad also worked most of the week finishing up the window
and baseboard trim. This house had a
variety of trim and baseboard sizes and shapes so our goal was to make them all
the same.
One big highlight of the week was the start of the front
room ceiling! There were large cracks in
the ceiling so we worked on an idea to patch and cover them with beams. We hesitated at first, considering the cost
of bringing in treated wood beams from the east coast, and also how heavy they
would be to hang. So then our contractor came up with the idea of actually
building the beams – constructing the four sides of the beam literally on the
ceiling itself, making them hollow inside.
After they are finished building the beams, they will distress them a
bit and we will stain them. Inside the
beam squares will be long wood pieces to finish the look.
Even though there are days of frustration with how long we
have been digging through boxes to find our belongings when we need them,
looking back over this blog to track our progress certainly helps us realize we
have truly come a long way. We still
have a longer road to go down than we would like, but perhaps we need to look
at this like the tortoise and the hare story.
If we had zoomed through everything as fast as possible without taking
time to really plan, budget or regroup along the way, there would have
undoubtedly been mistakes and regrets.
So far so good…as Proverbs 21:5 says, “Steady plodding produces
prosperity, hasty speculation leads to poverty…”
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