Weekend Update

But not the SNL version! :)  This weekend my nephew Matt came out to help Jas put the crown moulding up in the master bath.  The bathroom is huge (bigger than the kids' rooms -- a fact I try not to point out to them!) with a lot of corners, so we figured it would take most of the day.  Wrong!  By lunchtime they had most of it done, with only a few pieces to go after we ate.  Matt left around 1:30, and then Jas and I started on Anna's room.  By 3:30 we had both kids' rooms finished, and now all that's left is the laundry room.  But dear Matt plans to come back out next Saturday and help finish it out.

This week Jas plans to work on building the first of the rooms in the basement.  After much planning we have decided to tackle the storage room first, and get all our stuff stored away.  After that, we can tackle building the classroom for the kids and I, as well as Jason's hobby/RC room. 

I'll do my best to post step-by-step photos of the storage room construction this week.  So stay tuned! :)

House Update aka Why Has This Blog Been Neglected?

If you didn't know this already, we have been without internet at our new house up until this past weekend.  So the blog posts have been few and far between.  So I'm here to update everyone on what we've accomplished in the last couple of weeks. 

Saturday, January 30 was spent on crown moulding.  Jas, with the wonderful help of my nephew Matt, got the crown up in the "main area" of the house.  (In other words, the living room/kitchen/dining room/hallway.)  They worked most of the day, and it was definitely slow going.  It's not that putting up crown is incredibly complicated, it's just very tedious and time-consuming.  Every piece ends up being measured and cut and trimmed several times, and so it takes awhile to get it done. 

While they worked on that, I began painting the master bathroom.  We chose Olympic Premium in Glazed Pears.  It's a very soft creamy color, and is much lighter than the other colors we've chosen.  But it looks very nice in the bathroom.

Jas helped me finish it up after he took Matt home, and we even did the ceiling since the color was so light.  We moved onto the kids' bathroom after that, and finished it up after supper.  A long day, but we definitely got a lot done!

Sunday we worked on our bedroom.  We used Valspar's Soft Camel (Susie had an extra gallon that she hadn't used.).  Amazingly, the color almost matched the Vanilla Brandy in the living room. 

Now all that was left was the laundry room, which we worked on Monday night.  I taped everything off and prepped the laundry room Monday afternoon, and then after supper we painted.  Now all the rooms are officially done. 

We still have crown to put up in all three bedrooms, plus the master bath and the laundry room.  Hopefully we can get those rooms knocked out in the next couple of weeks.  We've been working on plans for the rooms downstairs, and I want to get to those as soon as possible.  But the crown needs to come first. 

So that's what we've been up to.  Now that we have internet at home again, I'll definitely be able to post more updates.  And hopefully some photos! :)