Finally Friday

I have worked hard this week!  No, really, I have!  The downstairs living room and hallway is finished!!  It is a gorgeous shade of gray.  It was between the color cards of gray meadow and shaken not stirred.  Without a second thought, shaken not stirred :) 



I spent one afternoon working on the stairs.  I pulled every old carpet staple and hammered in all the loose nails.  There were more than I could even count.  That job was awful! But now, they are ready to be sanded and stained.

I bought paint this week for the living room and kitchen.  I painted a spot and hated it. Jason, the nice paint man at Lowes that probably hates to see me coming, let me bring it back and he lightened it for me.  The pic is of the new color.  I like it with the new hardwood floors but I'm still not thrilled with it next to the beams. So, stay tuned to see if it sticks :)

Art day

Katie and Julie had a snow day, with no snow, so we did some art projects.  Thanks to pinterest we had lots to do :)  Tomorrow, back to painting my awesome new house!

A few good days

On Saturday I had a date with the Wallace Propane gas man :)  He ran lines for my propane fireplace in the living room and the bedroom.  I cant wait to get my logs in!

Sunday brought my new kitchen cabinets.  Dad and Coy put them up in about an hour.  They look great!

Mondays always bring progress in Blairmont!  Coy, Piv, James, and Chad were off work so we were busy. Sheetrock is going up, mud is drying, and I am sanding.  My shoulder can feel it!  James got the light up in Julie's room.  She loves it!  We did the kitchen tile, again, and it looks perfect this time :) 

Tuesday was more sheetrock and fixing the leaky front window.  The wood underneath the window was completely rotten.  But, is all fixed now!

**  During all this progress I have had a heavy heart.  Please pray for Dara and her family.  I can not imagine the heartache they are feeling right now.  **

Slow days

Its was really slow over at the house last week. My sheetrock/painter/carpenter is out of town so i tackled some other projects.  My white fabric headboard for my king bed is ready!

I started on Katie's bedside table, but it needs more fluff :) 

Chad and James took off Friday to start on my kitchen floor.  They laid the first box of tile and it looked really good.  I did some errands with the twins and came back about 3 o'clock.  I walked into the kitchen  and oh... no... the 18 x 18 tiles are the wrong color.  The first box was brown the rest were too gray!  They were only a few shades off but not at all what I wanted.  Chad did not notice until I mentioned it.  He tried to seal it and convince me it was the same, but it wasn't.  I called Lowes and made the flooring guy come up and look at the floor.  Chad tells him that he is just working there and that I am the owner.  Yeah, he just threw me under the bus all alone on this!  Lowes guy agreed with me and they are refunding and reordering the tile. Chad, who is not happy at all, pulled up every 18 x 18 and scraped up the thin set.  I told him thank you, but he didn't talk to me until later Friday night.  Now, we are waiting on the reorder and then my floor will be done!