Homeowners in week four...

It is crazy that we have had the house for four weeks now. In some ways I feel like we have gotten a ton done, in other ways we still have so much to do. I think that is because there are a few things in each room that aren't finished. For example, the master bedroom still needs the floor painted and the new door cut for the bathroom. The family room needs to have the new section of drywall put up, but we can't do that until the roof is fixed. Another instance is the kitchen- we have the floor taken up, the cabinets taken out, but we are still working on the walls. Then the utility room has been painted, but still needs new flooring. So, we have made progress, but so many finishing touches still need to be done.

Monday and Tuesday consisted of sanding down the patched drywall in the kitchen, which Justin mostly worked on. Bert was amazing, again, and painted the utility room in White Raisin from our Rustic Refined color scheme from Sherwin-Williams, which I have been blogging about. I really like how the color turned out, and this is the same color that we will use in the kitchen. Also, I worked on painting the three walls in the master bedroom that won't be affected when we make the full bath. It sounds easy, but there is a lot of trim work to take care of- three windows, several doors, and the baseboard and ceiling. It just takes some time. (Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures to post of me actually working... guess it's hard to take pictures of myself- someone should get on that!)

Today dad helped Justin get the claw foot tub over to the house (finally!!) in the evening before church. The plumbers were able to come early because they needed the exact measurements. They took the plumbing for the kitchen sink out, so now we only have one functional sink. And that one's not even very good because it gets jammed so often! Justin found a decent amount of quarters in the pipes that the plumbers took out. I think we'll rinse it off and give it to church. Speaking of money, we hope to cash in on that old cast-iron tub that is now out of the bathroom too. That is, if no one takes it off of the front porch. I think it's a couple of hundred pounds though, so that might be a bit of a discouragement. But that's all for now. More to come in the next few days!

And a silly kiss to end the night... I was trying to stay away from too much dust.. LOL