Basement Finished!

This is it! The time I have been waiting for for over a year.  My basement is finished(well as finished as it is going to get for quite some time).  My husband was so wonderful and finished all of the mudding and sanding, so this past weekend we could get to work on priming and painting.

So first up priming.  All done! Yeah.

Next we painted.  I forgot to take a pic before we started pulling everything out of storage so don't mind the messy room.  Can I just say also this picture does it no justice because the lighting down there is awful.  The color is a pale yellow/cream and really brightens up the room a ton!

Next up is trying to figure out where all the furniture is going to go.  I think we have rearranged it about 8 times now (yes in one day).  I think in the above picture is probably how it is going to stay.  This step was much harder than either of us ever imagined.  We have big chairs that we love, and we wanted to keep it looking open so that our young ones would have plenty of space to run around in.  I think we achieved that look, at least for now!

I couldn't be more excited, my house is truly coming together, and just in time.  We have less than 5 weeks until the baby arrives!  We scheduled our C-section last week and so as long as she doesn't make an early appearance she will be here on 4/6 early in the morning! Now who wants to come help me teach the little man to walk by then??

Basement-Painting

Ok so I got antsy, go figure right??

I said the longest wall in the basement was done being sanded right? Soo I decided it was time to prime and paint that wall, just because I can!

Here is it all primed.

Here is it all painted.

I also put my desk back out in the room, so my bill paying can be a bit more organized and I finally got to hang my laundry sign up above the door! (I have had this sign for 2 yrs!!)

It's the little things in life that make life good and enjoyable in my opinion. I was so happy to see color on the wall, just in case you can't really tell from the pictures it is a pale yellow/cream color that is down there.  The lighting is awful sorry.




Now hopefully it will help us get motivated to get moving on the rest of the walls, so we can finally call it a finished project! (well not totally because once I finish the remodel, I will have to find some craft stuff to make for down there)

Kitchen-Almost There

My Kitchen is getting so close!  No one can fully understand how happy and excited this makes me!!  I literally jump up and down just thinking about it. I just keep thinking about it functioning as a normal kitchen again without dust everywhere, and only one counter I can use. Won't that be so grand! I love to cook and bake so it will be great to have all my counter space back.

Yesterday I got the last of the cabinet doors sanded, and two of them primed.  Now I just need to stain the last 4.  The hardest part about all of this is all the waiting that has to occur.  I have to stain both sides of the cabinet door and each side has to dry for at least 4 hrs in between.  In other words, these last 4 cabinet doors could take me a couple of days to get done.  I can only do 2 at a time because that is the biggest area that I have to place them on while they are drying without ruining anything! So we wait....and wait...and wait. Something I have never been too good at.

But I know it will all be worth it in the end.  Here is a picture of what the cabinets currently look like without the last couple of door on them.

 The insides of the cabinets on top will eventually get painted white, but we ran out of white paint so that will have to wait for a while. Which isn't a huge deal in my mind.

Dresser refinish

We recently decided to move my dresser up the Eli's room, so that when the next baby arrives there is room for both of their clothes.  Currently there is just closet space but Eli takes up the closet so figured we needed to add another piece of furniture to the room to accommodate this.  My dresser was a very small one from walmart that we got on sale.  Light Birch/Oak color, so didn't go in the room too well. 

Soooo.... we decided to be different.  The room is currently brown on the bottom, blue on the top.  We decided to be different and paint it in the chalkboard paint.  I couldn't help but think how fun and different this would be.  We could write what items were in the drawers or draw pictures.  The possibilities seem endless.  So very excited.  Greg seemed to really like the idea too, so off we went to walmart to find some paint.  They sell it in a spray can for $4, not too bad.  I am going to use our sidewalk chalk to write on it with so we don't have to buy more chalk.

Before Picture:

After Picture:

Dresser Finished:

Yeah, so excited to fill this with little boy and girl clothes!

Kitchen- Trim in

This past weekend we were able to get some of the trim done! I was so happy.

Greg cut all the door trim to the length that it needed to be.

Then we both got to work on staining them! I love that part and I love the way it turned out.

Next he put it up for me.  Yeah that means the trim is done around both of the doors. This means we are getting closer.

We just need to find a table saw to borrow so we can cut the baseboards and get those up, unfortunately our house is old so we got wide trim so it matched the rest of the house which means it doesn't fit in his box! But it's going to look amazing once it is up.

Kitchen Redo Part 3

The painting is all finished! It feels so good to know that all the hard work as far as taping everything off is all done.
Looks pretty nice!

Now I just really need to get these cabinets finished so I can move onto the next step, trim and then new flooring. I can't wait for those as it will really help to pull everything together and look way more polished. Then comes the best part, using it fully functioning without "stuff" in the way.

Another benifit, once I get these cabinet doors back on, I can put a lock on them so Eli will stop pulling all the dishes onto the floor(which is messy from all the sand from the cabinets). That means I will have less messes to clean(in the kitchen that is), and less dishes to do! Always a plus in my book!