Six Word Saturday

To participate all you need to do is describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words. For more information, go to Show My Face. and Cate will explain it. Add an image, a video, a song, nothing.




Old kitchen paneling is coming off.
What a mess it is making.
Will floor ever be clean again?
Didn't really take all that long.
Going to be so much brighter.
 Once the drywall is all up

Six Word Saturday

New living room furniture looks good!

Six Word Saturday

To participate all you need to do is describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words. For more information, go to Show My Face. and Cate will explains it....feel free to explain or not explain. Add an image, a video, a song, nothing.


Finally! Two monitors - up and running!

Computer Room and Baby Update

Computer room coming along nicely. Closet doors, bathroom door and trim around both is all that is left to do.

Johnny for me, John for him.

Now - my grandson is still not here. They've made one trip to the hospital but were sent home. She is having contractions but they are supposed to wait till they are 5 minutes apart before they go in. DIL said my son got really excited and she had to tell him not to drive like a maniac on the way to the hospital. I guess that's normal!

Six Word Saturday

To participate all you need to do is describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words. For more information, go to Show My Face. and Cate will explains it....feel free to explain or not explain. Add an image, a video, a song, nothing.

Computer room is looking better already.

Still has a way to go but the ugly blue walls, brown trim and orange ceiling are going away. In their place will be very light bluish gray walls, gray trim, and white ceilings - and the picture above Biz's computer - just wait till you see the one above mine!

It's Getting There

This is  what the living room side did look like.

Living room side in process

Living room side as of today

Kitchen side - uncovering

This is what we found!

Stripping!

Stripped

Kitchen side today  - still a long way to go.

 This project is taking a looooooooooooong time! But I think it will be worth it - we're going to put some kind of onlay in the middle of the two white panels and leave the woodwork and doors natural. Have to have the bottom drawers and door built - which of course, takes money - hopefully with my tax refund!

Procrastination

Nothing like waiting for my last day off to start working on the kitchen cabinet. Thought it was a matter of lightly sanding before I could start painting the inside and it turned into quite a project. Biz decided to scrape all of the old paint off. Needless to say - no painting has been done yet but it will get there.

The cats spent the day curled up on the couch - together. Guess they wanted to stay out of the way.

These two would never admit they like each other - notice how they are back to back! Also notice how the Queen gets the fuzzy blanket!

Giving Thanks

Today I am thankful for the Biz and his willingness to help me do all the projects that I come up with for him.
Cabinet is starting to look much better - although it is a slow process but one that I definitely couldn't do by myself - or afford to have done. I am going to have to have the drawers built - probably by the Amish and probably not until after Christmas - but it's coming along.The "plan" is to replace 2 walls of the knotty pine with drywall to brighten up the kitchen. The cabinet will be used for it's original purpose - to hold the dishes which will free up a lot of cabinet space for foodstuffs which are right now stored in the basement.

One day's work - one can of stripper

So much more to go.

What have I got myself into?

 I've posted about the built in cabinet in this house that I wanted to uncover on the kitchen side - I could tell that it was supposed to open from that side too.

 Here it is again.

 The paneling came off this morning - no turning back now.

 Wow! not in very good shape.

But I think it will be cute when it's redone.

Remodeling pictures

 

 This is where I used to live- pretty much out in the middle of nowhere - I loved it but due to a lot of issues, had to move

This is the house I bought - in a small town - it's the same distance to the town I work  in but 40 miles closer to my daughter - but it is IN TOWN - hard to get used to.

I miss my truck!

 This was the kitchen when I bought the house.

 This is the kitchen now- stripped all that awful paint off the cabinets and this is what I found. I still need to do something with that backsplash.

 This was my bedroom.

This is my bedroom now

 This was the other upstairs bedroom

This is it now

 The stairs

Those stairs now

 The living room before

And now

 Dining room/entry before

Dining and entry way now

 And this is the computer room - actually another bedroom. It's next on the list to do.

 Here is the bathroom - it will be after the computer room

And this is the built in cabinet in the entry - it didn't get painted because I want to strip it. I can tell that it is supposed to open from both sides but the kitchen side is walled over with this knotty pine paneling (last picture) - I will be pulling that off as soon as I get brave enough - Any suggestions on how to go about stripping it?