Not the Bathroom... but still

So... it's been approximately two weeks since I put paint coat number one in the bathroom. Unfortunately I have not gotten back. In my defense I did attempt to go a couple days ago, but alas, the furnace decided to stop and it was very, very cold. Not good for paint on walls or Ashley's fingers. And Josh forgot to take a picture today, so I apologize, but you will have to wait until Monday to see a picture of the bathroom with only one coat of paint. (Perhaps I will do another coat on Monday before I take a picture and you will get to see the bathroom fully dressed.)

Because I think Caed is adorable I have put picture of him here. (I have heard that people without kids do not like when parents put pictures of their kids everywhere. I personally don't understand it. I have always enjoyed looking at pictures of other peoples kids, especially when they're little. Even knowing someone out there probably will judge me for it I will continue to post pictures of him everywhere. There will be pictures on my cell, on my facebook, on my blog, on my fridge and on my walls (when they are done) because even though I'm always with him I always enjoying seeing a picture of him too. I just like him. :) Please continue to like me despite this flaw.)

In other news. The living room is almost done, which means that most of the really, really, really time consuming stuff will be done (1. demo and 2. insulation, but mostly demo). Just 3. dry walling will be left in the really, really, really time consuming department.

In hopes that Josh doesn't read the blog about the house he'd renovating I am going to tell you my plan. I have mentioned that I don't like drywall. So, I will paint very, very slow spending all my time painting instead of helping drywall. Diabolical, I know. I'm basically a super villain, competing with Gru, Megamind and probably some other awesome villain that we all love, despite the whole bad guy thing. I will keep you up to date on how that progresses.

OH! And Josh did take a picture of the really ugly ceiling texture in the living room, so I will share that with you. 

I know right! It's not pretty. I am sorry I think that. I'm sure it took someone a lot of time once and they really liked it. I do not. In defense of the ceiling in this picture, the wood strapping is not native to it. Josh put it up in preparation to drywall over the existing ceiling.

Here are some other pictures.

The living room (taken from the kitchen).

The kitchen (taken from the living room).

Our bedroom.

Caed's bedroom.

Caed reading.

(This is a book he got from Owen and Jody. He loves it. I thought his expression in this picture was pretty funny.)

Bathroom

I have one coat of paint in the bathroom. It's really dark. I know it's going to look good with the wainscoting and the white shelving and probably a white cupboard of some sort, but right now it's just... dark. It looks almost black, maybe I should use a flash when I take a picture. But I'm scared to put it up, because I don't want you to not like it. Mostly I really want it to look ok so I don't have to repaint, and I keep telling myself it's fine. I've only painted one wall and the bathroom and I'm already tired of it... bleh. If I just left the drywall and mud unpainted could we call it modern??

Maybe I'll post a picture tomorrow.

(Josh has also been hard at work, doing lots. Like lots lots. Both bedrooms have been demoed and uninsulated and re-insulated. Drywall has been replaced. My island is framed and the living room is in the process of getting demoed, uninsulated and re-insulated. And I suppose I could post pictures of it, but they're not fun. In the pictures defense I would rather look at drywall then be anywhere near it. The same goes for insulation. I liked mudding for about 5 minutes. That was it. Now it's tedious and awful and messy and I don't really know what I'm doing. Also sanding it down was not a job meant for wimps... which I might be... you can decide for yourself, but after sanding two bathroom walls (it is not a big bathroom) my arms felt like noodles. I sat on the unfinished kitchen floor and watched Josh work for the rest of that evening. He finished it for me... it probably didn't take him long.)

Oh because pictures make blogs cool, here is the tap I think is neat for the bathroom. The one I actually got isn't quite as neat, but I'm thinking about taking it back so I can order this one... it's a little cheaper too. There isn't much to think about it seems.

The bathroom tap I'm going to order.

Pretty in White

My cupboards are mostly installed and the appliances are in the house... only the fridge is set up though- it didn't come in a box. So here are some pictures of the kitchen, try to ignore the huge box that is an oven in the middle of it. And imagine pretty hardware on the doors, and a pretty back splash over the counter top, which you also have to imagine. If you're up for it, you can also try to picture a door on the pantry... or paint in there... and a nice light fixture, and crown molding... and less mess... ok, so there's a lot left to do. :)

There is my oven, and my island.... still in boxes. :) The fridge is out though! Pretty side by side, with an ice maker. You can't even see there are dents in it. In the picture anyway.

This is my favorite part about my kitchen. It's a broom closet (slash a place for keys and wallets etc. that is not on the counter). You can sort of see the edge of it beside the fridge in the first picture. And it's a little dark, but on the left side of the picture you can see the stairwell to the side door.

Cupboards

As of last night we got three cupboards up. Six to go!

 No peaking.

Paint

The kitchen is painted... next step- cupboards.

Cliffside is my kitchen. I think it will look nice with my white cupboards and back splash.

 What my cupboards look like...

What my backslash will hopefully look like.

I'm choosing between global waters and black sable for my bathroom. White wainscoting on the bottom. I'm leaning towards black sable... thoughts?

While we're into colors here is our room (blue) and Caed's room (green) colors. 

It looks like something

Drywall makes a huge difference! It looks like a real room.

A PANTRY!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited. I've never had one... in my apartments and rentals... go figure. I really am spoiled. I think it will be the best.

Kitchen

Our cupboards came three weeks early. (Yay). Which will seriously speed up our moving in process. Because we can get them in and then order counter tops now instead of in three weeks. So this is lovely. It also means that the bathroom has momentarily been forgotten about.

Kitchen kitchen kitchen. Here are pictures of what our kitchen, piled with cupboards in boxes, and without drywall looks like. I'll post pictures that show off our new drywall and the pretty pantry Josh built me tomorrow.

Demo.

Old insulation gone. The worst job. So much dust. And windows framed in.

Getting the electrical in.

Sneak peak at the cupboards. Pre-assembled and with that soft closing hardware. Spoiled anyone?

The wall I insulated in Caed's bedroom.

pictures!

I have received my new charger!!! So nice. So I will take you on a brief tour.

(1)

Notice the beautiful green turf. Everybody's dream for the front of their house. Well honestly it was a little helpful. "Ours is the one with the great turn front steps, you can't miss it."

(2)

This is our back yard. You see the corner of the garage. Comes with a nice hill to roll down. But seriously. It's a nice size.

(3)

Open concept. So nice.

appliances!

Our appliances came today. So pretty. And heavy. But I didn't have to lift them so no complaints here. I'm so excited to try out the oven - we got a convection oven for a better price than the regular oven was, hopefully I like it.

Now I'm sad our cupboards don't come until the end of January.

babies and men wrecking things

So it has been a while since my last blog. And I will make an excuse. I wanted to put up pictures with my post. My baby boy ate my computer charger. Or tried to. The charger did not like his attempts. And the pictures are on the computer of which the charger that is angry with Caedmon charges. Alas, this post will not have pictures. I have given up waiting for my new charger to come before posting. (Ok, the charger costs 99 dollars at future shop or I could be patient and order it on ebay for 40 and that includes shipping. The choice is obvious. So the wait began.  I would be patient. And that lasted two days. My wonderful and beautiful sister-in-law has loaned me a laptop.)

So my baby wrecked my charger.

And my husband, he wrecked a wall.

Which is a good thing.

Open concept anyone? Yes please! I'll take one.

So my kitchen is now in my living room... or they share. And that is awesome.  Thanks to two brother, a father and a husband I have the open concept house that I preferred. And it looks great. Along with a beam to support the ceiling, they have also enlarged the bathroom (as well as adding new insulation and drywall, which meant ripping out the old insulation... not that there was much and drywall... which there was and it was built to last. Apparently drywall in 1957 was meant to stay up.), the floors are closer to being even throughout and the electrical is getting oh so close to being done. I'm sure they've done more too which I've probably neglected to mention, but it will come up in the future.

Now we just have a garage full of garbage to get rid of.

Buying A House

Such a grown up thing to do. But we're finished school, married and have a kid, so maybe we are grown up now. After a few weeks of ups and downs and lots and lots of phone calls, looking at the house, going back to the house, measuring the house, taking pictures of the house, and questions, lots of questions, it's ours. We were handed the key (yes, just one) on Wednesday. 

The house would not be considered pretty on the inside (or the outside... plain maybe), and I'm not just saying that in comparison to the $400,000 show homes we looked at. There is carpet in the kitchen. And we're not neat people. We have spilled orange juice on our floor more time then I'd like to admit (and by we, I do not mean me), along with countless other liquids and non liquids that I would not want to try to clean out of carpet.


So after 2 days of owning, the carpets are out, the kitchen is gone, some walls are down and it's a bit of a dusty mess, but it looks so much better.

Heading to Ikea this weekend!

Check out some before photos (subpar iPhone photos, but you'll get the gist.)