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House projects: Week 3


Oh my goodness, so many wonderful things have happened this week. First, our wood floors are done...which means our move-in day is not far behind!

We had all the floors in the main level refinished (which is about 80% of the square footage of our finished home) so we could do very little until that part was done. We love how they turned out! We had 5 rooms, a hallway, and our stairs to the bedroom (basically anything wood) refinished.




We had our washer/dryer installed at the end of last week, but finally tried them out this week and are already loving them. We also created and hung up a "LAUNDRY" sign to cover up those ugly electrical boxes which was a total blast to make.And I whipped up some curtains to help make the place a little cheerier. We still have a ways to go, but it looks worlds better than it did (and I'm no longer freaked out to go into that yucky room).

(Kevin starting to clean the laundry room on our first day of work there!) 



(During and after photos!) 






Railings are now 100% finished. We had 90% done last week, but after the welding I did the final coat of paint and we now have nice clean black railings (rather than rust colored)


(Photos of the old rusted railings)



(And below our beautifully painted railings!)
  



The drywall work in the bedroom is done, and we've just barely started to tape off the bedroom for painting! The walls are currently yellow...and not like a pretty yellow. So we are taking care of that in our bedroom and bath.

(before there was a door to our bathroom and everything was open)
(door installed, taping commenced!) 



We finally got a lawnmower and Kevin mowed the yard. Which may not seem like a "house project" but for us it was since it required the purchase of a large piece of equipment. We've still been deciding where to pull vines off the house and working at that as well. Many of our windows were so covered in vines that we were seriously lacking in natural light.


We are tentatively setting a move in date for a week from Saturday! That way all our other projects can be completed while we are actually living in the house!

What are some of our other big projects up and coming?
1. Paint bedroom/bath
2. Paint nursery (in a few weeks once we know what our nursery will look like)
3. Spend time updating the master bath
4. New carpet upstairs
5. Add a door (human sized) to our garage
6. Painting the kitchen


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