Wednesday, September 25, 2019

WW: Work Weekend Part 2

All work and no riding makes Leah a very dull (and grumpy) girl! But sometimes sacrifices must be made, alas. And it is truly fulfilling to watch the pieces of the house come together after so many years of planning and dreaming and saving. So here's a summation of work since my last post (which I guess was only last week, but we're getting a lot done!).
More doors last weekend.... But it was the final six-panel, hooray!

Flooring the kitchen, because our appliances were arriving far sooner than we thought (which is a good thing, just accelerated our kitchen timeline a bit)



Installing the toe kick under the cabinets. Some of these little things seem so insignificant but they make things look so much more "finished".

Installing trim in the guest bedroom


Hanging the utility room door

Installed the faucet for real

Staining door trim

Installing said door trim

Guest bedroom door fully trimmed! 

A few weeks accumulation of cardboard 

I found the perfect tiny pine 90s to stain to "finish" the backsplash

Flooring the master


Staining the master bathroom slider


Cute Mason jar dish soap and sponge holder!



Enough floor left over to do my tack shed and probably my horse trailer dressing room! 😁

Flooring the dining room

Finally done with flooring, lol

Hung the bathroom slider 

From inside the bathroom

Backer for under the breakfast bar

Bunch of tiny trim pieces to make the kitchen look more finished (where the toe kick meets, edge of the breakfast bar, around the backsplash, etc.)

Starting to look like a real kitchen! 


Monday my mom came over to grout the backsplash....

While I kept staining trim.... DH left notes for me on the back of boards where they were going, lol. 

Fedex arrived with our appliances!

Which was a total letdown because 3/4 of them were damaged in transit.... *Womp womp* no big though, I got ahold of the company right away and they're shipping out new ones. And in a funny twist, the only one that made the trip unscathed was the dishwasher, which happened to be the only appliance we don't currently have! I was planning on selling our current fridge/stove/microwave once we completed the new house, so they can keep doing their respective jobs in the interim while we wait for replacements for the damaged ones 🤷‍♀️


The extent of me doing anything with the dishwasher was just making sure it fit in the hole. It does, huzzah!

Checking out my housewarming gift of teal pots and pans in front of the finished backsplash on this wall 😍

Mason jar cannisters - I knowwwww the urge to nest is SO STRONG. I just want to move everything in RIGHT THIS SECOND 😅

Master bedroom is fully trimmed

So is the living room

Other side of the living room

Back slider is trimmed
Dining room is mostly trimmed - missing two small pieces, and then 2/3 of the utility room needs to be completed then I'll be DONE WITH TRIM. 
The tank that will be connected to our sewer pump that will run to our actual septic tank... This is the last big contractor piece that is keeping us from moving in - can't finish the plumbing until the water has somewhere to GO so hopefully they get this done this week! 

My life is currently a neverending cycle of stain, grout, rinse, repeat 😴


But I'm SO PLEASED with how this turned out 🤗🤗🤗
Hopefully we'll start slowly moving furniture in this weekend while we also make progress on those finishing touches! Full move in for us will be dependent on both appliances (ha) and getting a fence up for the dogs.... But I do feel like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I'm reasonably certain that it's not a train!! 😉😂

8 comments:

  1. I hope your appliances come soon so you can live in your fabulous house!

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  2. Ugh, that must have been a huge let down to see damaged appliances. Fedex is the worst. Everything else looks beautiful though! I LOVE the backsplash in your kitchen.

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    1. It was a bit frustrating, but thankfully the company was super great about getting them picked up/new ones on their way (via a DIFFERENT carrier, not FedEx this time 😂). And thank you! My kitchen makes me smile every time, I LOVE it!

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  3. Phewww you're so close to the finish line. And omg that flooring. DH looks so done with everything

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    1. I think we're both pretty done with everything at this point 😂

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