4/18/2012

The floors are all rolled.  He immediately covered a large portion of the living room floor, set up saw horses and then spent a lot of time painting case trim.  All the doors are now installed with case trim around them all.  The kitchen sink is now in the counter top.  Every time I go in to look, something has changed.  It looks more and more like "home" every time I walk in the door.  He has done such a fantastic job of finishing it all out.  The doors still have to be painted, then doorknobs installed, etc.  The base trim still has to be painted too, but we are getting closer and closer every day.  Some days, I just sit there and mentally arrange the furniture, deciding what will go where, what to keep, and what we might get rid of because we really have no need for it.

On the homesteading front, we now have three baby goats, two doelings and a little buck.  The second doeling was born the day before Easter, and the little buck born on Easter Sunday.    

04/09/2012

He is going to rent the floor roller to roll all the tile with today.  ALL the tile is done now, all the floors are done!  Now after he rolls the tile, it'll be on to doors and trim.  They have to be painted, of course, plus he still has to install kitchen sink, toilet, water heater, and pressure tank.  Closer & closer every day!

The homestead is doing well too.  We're up to 3 goat kids, with another doeling born Saturday and a little buck yesterday on Easter Sunday.  

April 4, 2012

The underlayment is all down throughout the entire house.  Any cracks have been filled, and the sanding is all done.  The house has been swept and swept again.  The room centers have been marked out, and the bedrooms were damp mopped.  He is ready to start laying tile in the master bedroom today! 

3/30/2012

It's been hectic here lately.  We had a new addition on 3/12.  Sadie gave us a darling doeling!  

She still doesn't have a name yet, but we'll figure something out.  Nubian kids are always so darn CUTE!  

After two back-to-back days of shopping trips, we got the rest of the flooring tile we needed, plus trim paint, 2 more ceiling fans...  and lots of miscellaneous stuff.  I think we got most everything on the list, anyhow.  The under-layment for the floor is all down, every piece of it!  We did pick up our medicine cabinet for the bathroom too.  He has it all stained & about ready to hang.  The ceiling fans are already up too!  He'll be ready to start laying the rest of the tile throughout the house soon, but first the prep work, as always.  I'm always amazed every day by how little I really knew about how things are built.  LOL 

3/23/2012

Hummmm??  Well, not much more to see yet, Nancy.  At least, not that he wants to take pictures of yet.  The tile is down in the bathroom.  The tile is down in the utility room.  The laminate flooring is down in the pantry.  He really didn't like the laminate or the way it goes together -- so we sold the rest of the laminate flooring.  He put underlayment on the floors of both bedrooms and the master bedroom closet. Yesterday, we went and picked up some more underlayment for tile plus some other things that Mtn. Grove building supply had cheaper than Lowe's.   I have a doctor's appt up at the lake Tuesday, so we will hit Sutherlands (for our medicine cabinet) and Lowe's for the rest of the stuff on our list, including tile for the bedrooms.  He's also spent a lot of time tying up little stuff.

03/08/2012

He's done about all he can do for the moment in the kitchen...

So he started putting the bathroom together:

The underlayment for the floor is down, and the next thing will be to lay the tile, and then install the toilet.  It really is beautiful.  We still have to go pick up the medicine cabinet, and a bit of the oak trim, but it's getting close.  One more giant step forward!

03/03/2012

Last two cabinets go up in the kitchen, and the counter top is in!

Here you go, Nancy.   LOL  Shanny took the photos with her cell phone.  HE didn't want to take any pictures till those last two cabinets were stained to match and he had the merlite up on the walls.  ;-)