It's like watching paint dry

Hi all, I know there has been a lag in posts.  That's because taking pictures of drywall is like, well, watching paint dry! Only that would be getting ahead of myself. Sigh.  Did you ever watch the construction of a building in fast forward motion? It seems to take forever then, bam, the building is done. Well, there is a lot into making sure that while we renovate, the house doesn't fall down.  Superman put in a new support beam so we can open up the breakfast bar. It was nerve wracking, I'm not gonna lie. I breathed a sigh of relief when it was finally in.  Superman had it all under control.

Here is the new beam in place and the breakfast bar opened up.  

We found this Carnation milk box in the kithen wall. The bottom of it says, "From Contented Cows". 

I did some sanding on the kitchen table. I still have some more to do then I will give it a light sheen to finish it off.  

I made these picture bases from boards we tore off the walls upstairs.  They are COOL!

Then it was time to hang some drywall. It didn't take long because we are putting bead board behind the cabinets.  Then last weekend, we had "wallboy" come finish our drywall for us.  He says we aren't allowed to do it ourselves.  He's a drywall perfectionist! So we let him to the finishing while Superman tried to hook up the new gas stove.  Wallboy jumped in to help with the stove, but we had to do some trouble shooting.

The above picture is actually a before and after picture. This is the same wall with the new door installed. I LOVE the new door. I watched deer out the back last time we were there.  

We had to cut this cabinet down to stand it up. I'm going to leave the cabinets open, except for where I put the old window. It fits perfectly! I nailed some salvaged boards of the side and I'm going to make a chalkboard out of it. Oh, I am having fun. 

This is "wallboy". He also happens to be my uncle. :) 

If all goes well, my next post will be pictures of the painted kitchen with the cabinets in place. Yahoo!! So exciting!! Happy harvest.

Runnin' on empty

This particular weekend, Superman and I were at the Red Berry all by ourselves. The kitchen floor was completely torn out the week before. The weeks were starting to run together and we were starting to run out of steam but we pushed forward. I don't know what I'm doing but I can take instructions. I can hammer a nail with the best of them now. We started putting the floor joists in. It was well past bedtime but we only had two more to go. We did it! We celebrated with a victory picture.

The next morning after breakfast, we hit the ground running. I cut and hung insulation boards while Superman starting cutting plywood. We had a real system going. Before you knew it, the floor was done! It doesn't shimmy when you walk on it anymore.

One last project before we left was taking out part of the wall to open it up to the dining area. We will need to put a support beam in, then we can cut those 2 by's out and make a cute breakfast bar. I'm over the top excited; it's all coming together!

The following weekend was a flurry of activity.  On Saturday, Superman painted the kitchen cieling white. I was upstairs sanding the one wall in the hallway. Between the two of us, we had dirt and overspray on EVERYTHING!

In the evening, we headed up to our room. In a previous post I mentioned that we talked about making two rooms a master suite. We decided that it would be a better use of space to keep two rooms. So here's the compromise........french doors! Superman started to install the french doors. One door down, one to go. It's going to look so nice. When we have guests in the other room, we'll close the doors and slide some curtains over them. I'm  really excited about our room.

The next day, we had surprise visitors, well, I knew they were coming up.  Lady bug and her mama and sister, AJ, came up to surprise Superman for his birthday. They also came to help. Superman was busy cutting a hole in the kitchen wall to install a new door out the back. AJ and and Lady bug's mamma helped.

Later, we headed upstairs again. This time it was girl power! We were tearing boards off of the walls to prepare for insulation.

Our friend, Randy, made a returen visit. This time, he ran some wires for the kitchen. Oh the kitchen is so close!