Porch rail!

We had some beautiful weather today, so we set out to put a porch rail up.  It didn't get finished today but we made good progress.  Mitch did the vast majority of the work.  So when I use "we"...

Here is what the house looks like sans rail:

Here are some photos of Mitch putting the rail together.

I did help wedge the rail in place:

Colin watched from his bumbo on the porch:

Adding supports underneath:

Here is the new view from the porch:

And this is what the house looks like now:

Next we will do the side rail, then it all needs to be painted.  This its time for summer porch sitting!

Mitchie takes on the tub scum

Mitchie + tub + pumice stone = nice, white tub. 

Here is a nice photo of the work in progress. To the left is what the tub looked like.  To the right is what it looks like post scrubbing.

Here it is now.  All clean and white and lovely!  Makes me want to take a bath.

The bathroom is so close to done!

Green bathroom!

Yay, the bathroom wall is painted!  We still have to get the broken window (that I broke...doh) fixed, and the trim painted. 

We're back!

Yay, more remodelling!  So because of the arrival of Mr. Colin, we have not done much.  The past few days Mitch's dad came and helped us by doing a bunch of tiling in the bathroom.  Awesome.

First, here are the before and after pictures of the master bedroom, which we finished in the nick of time before Colin was born. 

Before:

And after!

Before and after of the closet:

We still have to fix up the other windows, but that won't happen until we take the siding off the outside of the house.

Now, bathroom!

Finally, all the studs are covered!

Tile is done!

Floor is done!

New mirror, towel ring, and toilet paper holder.

Here is what the built ins look like now, with the tiling behind them:

So now Mitch and I need to pick a paint color.  Once the bathroom is painted and the broken window is fixed, the bathroom will be DONE!!!

Race to the finish!

We're really working hard on trying to get the room done before baby gets here, which is any day now.

First we got the quarter round on the baseboards.

Baseboards without quarter round:

And with quarter round:

Mitch painting quarter round:

And quarter round complete!

Next step was to finish up the windows.  This is putting the sash cords and lead weights back on.

And here are the windows with the frames back on.

Next step is to get the trim around the windows back on.  We got new trim, and my mom made an appearance to help get the trim painted.

Next time Mitch and I have a day off together we will get it cut and put on the windows.

Next step was baby stuff...we did heaps of baby laundry.  Plenty of bibs and onesies!

Obo did the honors and assembled the crib and dresser/changing table.

Crib!  Its a cosleeper that will butt up to our bed.

Changing table/dresser, full of clothes and diapers, ready for baby!

Last but not least, mom got started priming the closet.

So on monday the plan is to paint the closet, get trim on the windows, and move the furniture into the room.  Then baby can come any time he wants.

more work on molding/baseboards

Almost done!  You can see in these photos some of the corners where there are seams in the molding are still in the process of being caulked/spackled and painted, but otherwise the baseboards and molding have been caulked and painted.  Mitch is going to finish those areas up and touch up the paint, then in the next few days we will put the quarter round on.  Then once the windows are back in (which should take no time at all - they're already painted and everything) we will move furniture in.  The closet still has lots of work to be done, but that can be done with us (and baby if necessary) living in the room. 

Here is the molding, looking sassy.

Baseboards.  The quarter round is down on the left (but not yet painted) and not on the right, so thats what that will look like once we get it on around the whole room. 

Some more pictures of the (almost) finished room.

Anniversary!

No photos to post today.  I painted the molding and baseboards, but there is still some work to be done and the wall to be touched up and then I'll take some photos.

Just wanted to make an entry to point out that we closed escrow on this house 1 year ago.  We've gotten a lot done, though not as much as I had hoped.  Apparently its hard to remodel a house on limited funds when both people work full time on conflicting schedules...we'll see what happens in the next year, though with little one joining our family, I'm not optimistic about getting that much MORE done this year...hopefully we'll be able to keep slowly chipping away at things!