We have been BUSY over here
working on getting our
projects
all wrapped up.
I’m not usually a “selfie” kinda girl.
I’m pretty happy just being behind the camera,
but
I thought this would be a kinda fun photo to share!!!
So…
Onto what we have been up to these past couple of weeks.
Hubby has finished moving insulation, lying at odd angles,
working in the tiniest-crawl-space-between-a-joist,
and cutting plywood to get into said-space
and has finished moving the
heating and air conditioning vent from inside that
large, long horizontal spot
(where the fake wall used to be)
to where it should have been all along
(in my humble opinion)
😉
along the right side of the ceiling
here in the second bathroom upstairs.
He has also replaced the little night light
ceiling light with the ever-so-much-more-practical
ceiling fan
(this was an easy switch compared to moving the vent!).
Both look great!!!!!
So proud of my husband for his doing this ~
something I have wanted to have done for years.
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| Sorry this photo is so dark… I could have turned on more lighting (or opened up the aperture…), but didn’t think about it. 😉 |
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| THE word for the day!!! Feeling fabulous that all this work, though it is chaotic and practically every room in the house has something going on in it and we are living in the middle of all this destruction/construction! 🙂 |
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| What the wallboard looked like prior to sanding |
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| …and afterwards. 🙂 |
While he was doing all that,
I’ve been down in the kitchen slaving away on cabinets ~
sanding, painting, more sanding, more painting.
I’m about half-way done.
🙂
Not far enough along as I’d like to be,
but
happy that it is coming along.
(Still have to cook, clean, do laundry, work, blog…
a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do, right?!)
***
I also have been working on finishing up the thresholds
going from the kitchen into the dining room
and
from the hallway into the living room sitting areas.
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| You can just see where the kitchen threshold will go over in the very upper right of this picture. |
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| This just will NOT move to where I want it, so here is the photo to go with all the talk about wallboard mesh and the little hand-saw, my new favorite tool!!! |
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| Just a pop of color from outdoors, since I was out there staining in the overcast p.m. |
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| These are the oak planks all cut to size, routered on the leading edge, and sanded and stained. |
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| Different stains that I have had and used over the past 28 years of marriage. 🙂 One of these I used on some Windsor chairs we no longer have, and I think the “sugar maple” is what I used on the sofa-table-turned-side-board. |
Lastly, I helped Hubby yesterday by holding the
vacuum hose for awhile while he was cutting wallboard
to finish an old repair.
Then, I went up and spent the afternoon sanding wallboard
in the 2nd bathroom
(the one we are working on remodeling).
***Wallboard is dusty stuff!
Definitely wear a dust mask rated for keeping those nasty little
particles from going into your lungs!
I found these sheets of super rough
wallboard mesh
at
Ace Hardware
for sanding wallboard
and they work great!
I went through 3 of them just going over those open
wall spots.
Tip:
One of the older gentlemen who works at
Ace Hardware
told me that you can cut a piece of this sanding mesh
off
to clean up hard calcium deposits in your toilet
(those hard water spots that the toilet brush doesn’t quite get rid of).
He says to just roll it and stick it in there and scrub gently.
Good tip!!!
And it works!!!
🙂
Well, that’s it for now!
Happy Mother’s Day to you!!!
Blessings to you,
Barb
🙂
p.s. Almost forgot! A friendly electrician came by (hubby called to wire the ceiling lighting together on one switch) this week, and Hubby mentioned he wanted to have a plumber look at our sink attachments, so…
A plumber came this week, too!
Busy week!!! Bye, Ya’ll!
***Will be sharing this week with
Feathered Nest Friday
http://www.frenchcountrycottage.net/2015/05/feathered-nest-friday_14.html#more
and some DIY sites.***
vacuum hose for awhile while he was cutting wallboard
to finish an old repair.
Then, I went up and spent the afternoon sanding wallboard
in the 2nd bathroom
(the one we are working on remodeling).
***Wallboard is dusty stuff!
Definitely wear a dust mask rated for keeping those nasty little
particles from going into your lungs!
I found these sheets of super rough
wallboard mesh
at
Ace Hardware
for sanding wallboard
and they work great!
I went through 3 of them just going over those open
wall spots.
Tip:
One of the older gentlemen who works at
Ace Hardware
told me that you can cut a piece of this sanding mesh
off
to clean up hard calcium deposits in your toilet
(those hard water spots that the toilet brush doesn’t quite get rid of).
He says to just roll it and stick it in there and scrub gently.
Good tip!!!
And it works!!!
🙂
Well, that’s it for now!
Happy Mother’s Day to you!!!
Blessings to you,
Barb
🙂
p.s. Almost forgot! A friendly electrician came by (hubby called to wire the ceiling lighting together on one switch) this week, and Hubby mentioned he wanted to have a plumber look at our sink attachments, so…
A plumber came this week, too!
Busy week!!! Bye, Ya’ll!
***Will be sharing this week with
Feathered Nest Friday
http://www.frenchcountrycottage.net/2015/05/feathered-nest-friday_14.html#more
and some DIY sites.***
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