Doors & Clean-up

On Thursday we had our door guy come and install all our doors. Thursday night we finished up the baseboards that were connected to the doors then we started the clean-up. We had a lot of help so it went fairly quickly. We emptied the basement and got it ready for the carpet.

Uncle Dave spent about one hour scraping the glue off our stairs. Brayden sat and talked to him almost that entire time.

More Tile & Paint

Crunch time started as we neared our move-in date. We knew we wouldn't be able to finish everything, so we started at the top of our list and tried to get as much done as we could. Josh & I spent a day painting the kitchen while Brooklyn slept and Brayden helped paint the walls.
Josh decided to quickly finish tiling the basement laundry room and bathroom. He spent two nights at the house until about 3am getting it done. Here's Brayden helping Josh mix the cement before we headed back to the condo for the night. Here is what it looked like after they layed out the tiles:
Doing the bathroom closet:
Rudy stopped by and helped Josh do the tricky drain. They did a fantastic job.

Baseboards

The never ending project continues. We don't have the doors in yet, but we decided to quickly do as many baseboards as we could. I painted them all last night, then we nailed them up, caulked, and touched up the paint. We'll have to come back and finish when the doors get put in. Here I am painting the baseboards with Brayden's help:We didn't have a nail gun, so there was a lot of pounding going on. Here's my dad and Ryan Tucker working on the rounded corners:

Here's the family room:

Finished Tile w/ Grout

We were able to finish the tile and grout in tonight. Although the grout looks ok in the pictures, it is much pinker than we expected. We have had many conversations about what to do about it, but haven't decided. For now it's staying put. We might end up staining it later. We are VERY happy with how it all turned out. The tile is perfect and looks great.

Tile!

After weeks of searching for the tile we liked, we found it at Home Depot. We LOVE the tile and it was in our price range, especially b/c I still use 10% off coupons on everything I buy there. Uncle Dave had a night off so he offered to come teach us how to do it. Thanks to Steve, Michael, Adam, and Uncle Dave for all their help. Here's Adam cutting the tile: Uncle Dave hard at work:

Bathroom: Steve:

The Crew:

Painting!!!

Before I get to the painting, I wanted to post a picture of the texture that is on the walls in the basement. It's called orange peel. This is not a very common texture, but it is what is upstairs so we kept it consistent. It's hard to see in the pics, but it's there.

We finally started painting both the upstairs and the downstairs. I wasn't sure about the color, but it turned out awesome. We had a lot of help which we are very thankful for. We used my dad's paint sprayer in the basement and we rolled the paint upstairs. It's hard to see b/c of all the paint in the air, but here are some pictures from the basement after we sprayed it:

My aunt Cindy has helped us out SO much. Here she is painting like a pro:

We got a lot of help from the Ericson brothers. Thanks guys!

Andrew Allman. Need I say more?!

Andrew is the perfect guy for the ceilings.

More Sheetrocking

I had no idea that sheetrocking was such a long process. It has taken SO long, but we are finally getting to the end. We decided to go ahead and sheetrock the laundry room and bathroom while we are at it. Here are some before pics.

This is the greenboard we put up around the tub.
Brayden's little retreat where he could snack and watch shows.

The after pictures:
This is the bathroom closet area:
One tired boy:

A Very Long Week

About every night this week we went over to the house and worked on it. My dad spent the week finishing the sheetrock. He also spent a lot of time prepping the laundry room and bathroom for sheetrock. It was a nightmare, he said. Wires and pipes were everywhere they shouldn't be. So he had to move a lot of stuff so we can now sheetrock.

Here is our makeshift play room so I can get some work done. It has been the best thing I've done. Finally Brayden has something to do while we are there.

All Brooklyn needs is a box.
We did our first coat of paint in the living room. Doesn't it look so much better?
Here are some random pictures of the finished sheetrock and mud.

This is the second best thing I've done. I went to Walmart and bought Brayden a tool set. He is in heaven. He loves to follow my dad around and "help" him. He loves the tool belt because it is just like grandpa's. The set has about 20 more tools in it, but I will try and give him one new tool each time we go to the house. Hopefully that will keep him excited, eventhough I don't think I'll have trouble keeping him interested in the tools. He doesn't stop playing with them.