The past two weeks, minus the part where I wasn’t sick to my stomach puking with the flu, and the part where I had a nasty head cold a few days later, we worked on the house bunches. We framed all the exterior windows. We made walls, sanded, painted, bought tons and tons of trim for all the inside windows and doors, rocked in the fireplace, and demolished the ugly blue bathroom and started putting it back together. We had help, and it helped, but we didn’t get everything done. It rained all week, which made it hard to cut and run around, so that slowed us down.

Planning is tricky, I’m estimating I made 5 or 6 extra trips to Home Depot last minute for things that we forgot or that broke, which really wore me out. Just like always, the best pictures are on the Nikon, but here is everything I managed to get a shot of with my weenie camera.

I’m pretty proud of what they were able to accomplish, and I’m anxious to to a big album of befores and afters to to really showcase all MK’s hard work.

House Stuff  10/10.

The window to the left of the fireplace used to be two small wood ones. We chose a non opening panel to give you more view. The door creates enough breeze, and the windows were forever drafty. The trim in the whole house is pre primed and white, but since this window was 12 ft. long we had to get specialty wood. I know it doesn’t match the vinyl window casing but it looks too pretty to paint just yet. Click to enlarge. The ledge is dreamy and the design is just what I wanted. This house is starting to kick ass.

Ta Da:

How great is this? I don’t have any breaks on super crazy house work week, so I don’t get to tell stories all about the work we are doing. I never understand people that can make painting a wall a twelve page blog post anyway. Boooring.

However, you don’t seem impressed enough. Maybe reminding you what BEFORE looked like will help:

Or how about how it’s been for the months:

Love it! Vinyl was the more expensive choice, but will need no painting, no tough upkeep. All the windows outside are done now! MIL brought a friend that has been doing tons of work with us. We finished ripping out all the wood (the closet in the living room) and are getting ready to rock in the fireplace. Can’t wait.