A Summer of Remodeling: July 17-23

Completed Projects Update: Week 8

Our plans for this week include:
sealing the grout and tile in our kitchen, hanging drapery rods, measuring windows and installing 2" PVC blinds, and starting to organize the garage

* move into house

Done!

* re-texture all of the ceilings (from popcorn to a flat finish)
Done!

* remove all linoleum (kitchen and bathrooms)
Done!

* update kitchen

FLOORS
Saturday: David sealed the tile and grout!!!
COUNTERS
Done!
CABINETS

Done!

* update bathrooms (refinish walls, replace toilets, fixtures and faucets)

Floor installation is complete

* remove wood paneling in entry and family room
Done!

* re-texture paneled walls

Family Room and Entry are done! We are planning to do the guest bathroom soon.

* freshen the house up with new lighting fixtures

2 of 4 ceiling fans installed

* paint walls throughout house
Guest Bedroom
Done!
Baby's Bedroom
Done!

Dining Room

Thursday: David cut in all of the trim and we finished painting the window insets in order to hang the blinds.

Master Bedroom
Done!
Family Room

Done!
Bathroom
no new progress
Kitchen
We need to finish cutting in around the ceilings and wall corners.
Closets
Monday: David installed the 4th of 3 rods for our clothing! Now, all of our closets have been freshly painted and equipped with great storage capacity! Wohoo!

* paint trim (crown molding, baseboards, door trim) throughout house

no new progress

* add a privacy fence to the west side of property
no new progress

* clean-up landscaping

Done!

* purchase/make window treatments

Sunday: David hung the curtain rods in our bedroom and the family room. It's awesome getting to remove vertical binds and replacing them with fabric drapes!

Wednesday: I shortened the length of the PVC blinds in the breakfast nook today (they were custom cut for width but left too long by the prior owner) and purchased the PVC blinds for the dining room and guest bedroom windows. I'm getting excited about removing the black plastic from our front windows---and I bet our neighbors will be happy about it too :)

Thursday: David hung the dining room blinds.
Saturday: David hung the guest bedroom blinds!
* garage
Monday: David loaded and hauled off our first load of trash from the remodel. We expect it to take a few loads :)

Saturday: David worked on cleaning/organizing the garage and also added the door to my laundry room pantry cabinet. He then built the cabinet for the garage that we are using to store cookie cutters and canned goods :)
* baby prep
Peanut's Crib
Tuesday: David put together the crib for Peanut's room and I washed the bedding! We are officially full-term now, so we are excitedly awaiting Peanut's debut!

I love our Jenni Lind-style crib!

* help from friends
Wednesday: My friend Haley came by today and helped me wash windows! She also was a champ and dusted off the ledge above our kitchen cabinets. Good times!

Friday: Haley and I went through the seasonal decor items and sorted them to have stored in the attic. Haley was awesome and also cleaned out some of my old classroom tubs that had been marked up with pencils and markers by students... the tubs are white again and ready for use :)

* random
My goal this week was to finish unpacking and to put all of the unpacked items away. I also made the lofty goal of finding places to store all of the random stuff- like luggage and leaves to tables and old teacher lesson plans/supplies. I am happy to say that I made great progress! I guess the fact that I decided to organize/spring clean while unpacking is what I can attribute to "nesting"... but then again I love to organize.

This week I also put together a few boxes of donations to take to Goodwill and a box of old teacher things to give to to teacher-friends. My time Un-packing/Organizing/Spring Cleaning is coming to an end--which means fun time prepping for Peanut is around the corner!