House Projects

Nate's break hasn't been all play and no work. We have exhausted ourselves this past week trying to fit in as many projects around the house as we could. We did a lot but still only covered about a third of our list. Many of the things we did have been on our "to do list" for months. We put up new curtain rods in Preston's room and the front room, which required filling the previous holes, touching up the paint and hanging the new rods. I hemmed the curtains in Preston's room and made curtains for the front room. Yikes! We cleaned the windows inside and out. We scotch-guarded our couches. I repainted a mirror for above our couch. We took down the shelf from above our couch, filled the nail holes and re-painted getting ready for the new decorations.

And, our biggest project included putting up fake wainscoting in our kitchen area.  We are almost done with the wainscoting. It took a lot of time trying to get straight lines on the walls for the chair rail. A little bit of time cutting the wood and trying to figure out the correct way to cut a return. Then even more time lining up the individual boxes and caulking all the spaces between the box and the wall. Then came the priming and first coat of paint. The wainscoting still needs a second coat of paint before it will be fully done. We are getting so close.

It's amazing how all of these projects seemed to take twice as long as they should have with Preston running around. We also seemed to make quite a few trips to Lowe's and Home Depot within the week.  I guess that's what usually happens when working on projects. All in all, we felt like we got a lot done this week.

Here is our completed entry-way. We did this right before Disneyland. We finally finished the bench. 

The curtains I made.

Our kitchen before work began

Preston loved helping Nate with all things tools. Here they are ready to cut wood with the miter saw.

Chair rail up!

One wall of boxes up

All the boxes up

Stay tuned for the completed pictures! We are planning to finish early this week.