Carpeting the Laundry

Yay! This week feels productive. Tuesday we started painting the bathroom, today the carpet was installed in the laundry room. It’s kind of crazy because we don’t have carpet anywhere else in the house, but we just wanted a cheap solution to our M.C. Escher style room – it makes it feel like a new construction in the suburbs!

5:32pm

Laundry room carpet

5:50pm

Laundry room carpet

6:41pm

Laundry room carpet

Next step soon (as in by the end of the weekend) – painting! We want to go ahead and get it painted while we have moved all the furniture back into the rest of the house (which, by the way, is crazy because it makes it feel like when we first moved in). Because we know once we move everything back in we’d never get around to moving it back out and painting it. So better to have chaos in the dining room again for a few days than an unfinished laundry for the next 3 years. ;-)

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Bathroom Painting

Last Friday Patrick was working on removing paint off the kitchen built-in drawer.

Paint removal

…while I was putting primer in the corners that hadn’t been painted.

Paint bathroom

Today we finally put the first coat of color in the bathroom!! We almost got the entire room done. I have to finish a few more spots by the ceiling. But my husband keeps asking me every 30 seconds if I’m done and we can finish watching “Little Miss Sunshine” so I can only take the questioning for so long! (Otherwise I would have finished it tonight :-P).

Paint bathroom

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Last 2 Weeks Yardwork

As you can tell we’ve been a little more slack now that we’re somewhat settled in. It’s just that now that the toothbrush and TV are out and working it’s hard to worry about the rest of the stuff! People keep asking when the housewarming party will be. Patrick keeps saying we should ago ahead and schedule it – that way we’ll be forced to unpack the rest of the junk!

So anyway, Patrick painted the 2nd coat of the kitchen built-in, so it’s looking pretty good. We still need to scrape the drawers and repaint them, and get the doors scraped and fixed so they can get hung back up. In addition he started painting the molding on the arch. But our main focus seems to still have been on the yard now that the weather is so nice and we’re itching to go outside.

Two weeks ago…

Getting ready to work on the pretty front bedroom door.

How nice! We had a few pieces of glass already replaced, but now noticed that there were a few more cracked ones. Must have happened with all that moving around? That door is very heavy afterall.

Our yard is still covered in leaves, and that giant branch that fell into the yard shortly before we closed on the house.

Trying out our brand-spankin-new “Log Master.”

Should I send my lumberjack photo in to Remington, or what?

Today…

We finally got gas for the lawnmover (funny that it took us so long to use it considering it was the first thing we bought for the house!). Also note that nice stack of chopped up wood. The lawnmover will also help that leaves problem…

Look how those leaves pretty much *poof* went away! Those brown spots you still see is where there’s no grass – errrr weeds growing. And yes, there are still a couple of piles that need to be cleaned up, but we’re making progress. You can also see that another bunch of daffodils popped up! I’m so excited! And if you look at the fence on the right hand side there is a little gap where you can see through to the neighbors daffodils – that’s because I tackled a small amount of the fence covered in kudzu 2 weeks ago! That stuff is entwined so much into the fence that it’s quite a challenge to get off (compare to 4 pictures up). I’ll have to try to remove as much as I can before spring really hits – they don’t say “a foot a day” for no reason!!

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We Passed Final Inspection!!

Yesterday was quite exciting. For the past week our contractor had told us she had ordered the final inspector to come by. So every morning we have woken up early and somewhat cleared the bathroom and kitchen, etc. to make it not look as lived in and “homey”. And every morning we had been getting an email with some reason or another why the final inspection had to be postponed. Anyway, so Thursday was finally our day – the inspector was really supposed to come! Melisa had camped out front until the inspector pulled up and then snuck into the house to let us know she thought he was here. She had mentioned being nervous about the stairs to the garden not having a rail, and mentioned other houses where the inspector had been so anal he had requested them to put weather-stripping in all the windows, etc. Well, our inspector knocked, came in…we tried to make the polite small talk. He took the papers, looked over all the signatures. Then made a comment about “you guys must be eager to move in” to which Patrick and I somewhat nervously laughed and answered “oh yes, very”. He then signed the paper and said “have a good day” and walked out!! He barely walked into the house! As he walked out Melisa asked if we needed to get our occupancy permit, and he said we didn’t need it. Ok, that’s cool! We’re not sure if the bank may still want it or not, so we’ll see. After he walked out Melisa commented that it had to be the easiest inspection she had yet. We laughed about how anti-climatic the whole thing was. I guess I did all that clearing off stuff for nothing, but better safe than sorry, right? Either way, we’re all done! We can get rid of our “Notice of Issuance of Building Permit” sign on the porch, woohoo. What landmark are we going to give our friends now?! ;-)

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Yard Work

Yesterday was a gorgeous day. We had a sunny blue sky and temperatures somewhere around 69F! Patrick and I snuck out for a while to do a little exterior work. I finally racked some leaves, but there’s no need to show you the rest of the yard because despite all my work it looks like I haven’t even touched the yard! I hope it won’t be fall before I manage to get rid of all the leaves…
Raking leaves

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