Drywall, Sanding, Mudding, Painting..AGAIN!

April 2010:

Does this stuff ever end? After completely ignoring the upstairs for the last year, we decided to start working on it. The upstairs is our extra bedrooms and bathrooms. We have family coming up to visit in June for my sister's wedding, and we were hoping to have enough done on the house so they would be able to stay with us.

The upstairs had all the drywall up, but not much of it was mudded or sanded. So, we had to start kicking butt!

This is our bathroom upstairs! I guess the tub gave that one away!

Closet!

March 2010:

Just in time for Kristi's birthday, her closet was just about finished. She is loving her new closet! For months now, we were living out of one dresser, laundry baskets, and hanging clothes from random places in the house.

This is where Adam was hanging his work clothes BC (Before closet)

So, he decided to build a closet

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Addition

February 22, 2010.

I just had to put this in here. :) Adam and I expanded to our little family back in February. After much thought, we named him Carlos!!!!!!!!! We love Carlos! He is a 2007 Acura TL.

New Faucet in Tub

March 2010:

We got a new faucet (Guess what kind of faucet?) for the the tub? Yay for running water!!!

WOW!!!!!!

I can not believe I have not posted anything since January. I was just thinking the other day, is it really May already? Wow...this year is going by fast. I am going to try to backtrack.

February 2010:

Apparently, not much happened this month as I was looking back through my pictures.

We did tile around the bathtub in our master bathroom. This really makes the bathroom look beautiful. I can't wait until I can take a bath in it!

Our lovely kitchen

January 2010:

This is one of the few things we have done in the last month. We brought our stuff that was in our cabinets in the other house to the new house. We had fun trying to organize the new cabinets. We had so much space, we didn't know what to do with it all. It is fun to go grocery shopping, and then come home and put everything away. Here are some pictures I just took of the kitchen. It is starting to feel like a home---what a great feeling!

-Kristi

A view from by the back door of the kitchen.

Another view of the kitchen. Do you notice the countertop on the island?

That wasn't there before. We will eventually put 3 or 4 barstools under there

use it as a place to eat.

This cabinet is to the left of the sink. The bottom cabinet is pretty sweet.

Those shelves with the cans swing open, and you can put more stuff behind it.

Another view of the kitchen. Now, I am standing in the corner with the fridge on one side and the dishwasher on the other. You will notice that the countertops next to the stove still need stained. Also, the walls by the backdoor and window still needs some sanding and painted.

Another view of the kitcehn with the dishwasher. I love having a dishwasher and a garbage disposal, it makes doing the dishes so much more enjoyable.

Our fridge and microwave.

There is my banana holder. I love that thing. Haha!

Kraftmaid cabinets are awesome! This one has a spice rack in it.

This cabinet is below our sink. The top one tilts out, and has a space to put sponges in. I don't really know what to put in that thing that is connected to the door yet. Maybe some time of cleaning stuff.

Our freezer is awesome. It opens on the bottom and has that top drawer that slides in and out.

Fridge all opened up with yummy food.

Our pantry cabinet. So much room! As you can see, to the right of this picture is the living room. Not even close to being done yet.

Even though the kitchen looks done, there is still some minor things to do---backsplash, cabinet door holders, painting the ceiling, taking the cover off the vent hood, finishing the backwall. Not to mention, buying a kitchen table and chairs, and window covers and such.

It's been awhile...

January 2010:

It's hard to believe it is 25 days into the 2010, and I have not yet posted any updates for this year. There is a reason for that. Adam and I have been taking a little bit of a hiatus from working on the house. Once we started living in the house, we decided it was time to take a little break. After all, we have been working on it for over a year and a half. It has been so nice to spend good quality time together that didn't involve having a nailer and 2x4's near by. We have done some small projects,but nothing big. We stained our countertops, put shelves in the cabinets, and organized the kitchen.

Instead of buying each other Christmas presents this past year, we decided to buy some things for the house together. We bought new pots and pans, a new flat screen tv, new water glasses, and my favorite--a banana holder. It has been so nice having a working kitchen. For months and months, we lived on frozen microwave meals, peanut butter and jellys, and eating out A LOT. Now that we have a working kitchen, we don't even mind doing dishes.

Now that we have taken over a month off, we are going to start working again. Next on the agenda: Put the tub in the bathroom, finish the tile around the tub, bathroom sink and vanity, finish the closet (so we can hang our clothes up), and curtain rod and curtains in the bedroom. We have our curtains bought, but they are sitting in a JC Penny bag on the floor. We hope to have the majority of our house done by June. A lot of family will be visiting from out of town for my sister's wedding, and I hope to be able to have some of them stay in the "DeVries Dome."

Hope everyone is having a great new year!

-Kristi