Pantry

My Dad always said, "If you do that, your name is going to be Mud" when I was going to do something bad. Well after these past few weeks I feel like my name could be Mud. We prepped all the walls with mud and sanded, then mudded, then sanded, then textured. A lot of Mud was happening here!

 This is the door that is no longer there, but do you see that stuff on the wall? Yup wall paper... My good friend will be very blessed. She helped me rip this stuff off, did I mention that we also redid the ceiling in the room? It had PAINTED popcorn... This is a room straight from the 80/90's. YUCK! That popcorn was very time consuming to get off and so was the wall paper.

Kitchen

Did you ever wonder what a lowered ceiling looked like on the inside?

 The dry wall is going up to make a level ceiling. I can't believe people functioned with a 7 foot ceiling. I about took the light out trying to get the mop out of the sink.

This is the wall that used to have the washer and dryer on it. My husband turned the water line around so the washinging machine could go on the other side. He also tapped into the cold water line so that we could use it for the refrigerator on the other side of the wall. (The house was built before refrigerators had water dispensers so there was not a water line for this).

The drywall is up and you can't notice all the hard work with the plumbing behind it. Also the frame for the pocket door is up and just needs the drywall placed on top of it.

Play hard, sleep hard

We had a week and a half that we really concentrated on moving. Between my husband and my schedules it was hard to find time. We also had to clean and prepare our old house for renters. We really found that we are blessed. My husband and his brother pulled some late nights moving truck loads, my parents and sister came and helped us move on a Saturday. And my Mom and sister surprised us and showed up on my sisters birthday to help us clean. We also had help from our home teacher and another member of our church with moving a few of the heavy things. All and all, we got it done. I will have to add pictures of our red neck ways with some of the items out front since there is not room with the remodeling for some big things.

We did get some time to play in. It actually rained in Las Vegas! It is so rare that when it happens you have to enjoy it. We took Evalyn out and ran around in it. We had a blast!

With all the moving and change of location Evalyn found anywhere comfortable to sleep.

Before we moved in we would go and work on the house here and there. I started having Evalyn take naps in her room to start getting used to a new room. The door knob hadn't been replaced yet which left a perfect spy hole for me.

Kitchen...

 

The kitchen needs quite a bit of overhauling. It's hard to see in the first picture but the ceiling drops one foot from the other room over the kitchen area, has fluorescent lighting and hanging cabinets. The way the kitchen cabinets are designed it really closes off the kitchen from the rest of the large room.

 

 

 

This is a VERY rough draft idea of what I want the kitchen to look like. I want to remove the the counter where the sink is and create an island and put the sink there with the dishwasher. We will take the ceiling up and add canned lighting.

 

In this picture you can see we have taken out all the upper cabinets to start working on the ceiling. It looks better and opens the room up already. I will work on the cabinets while my husband does the ceiling. (I definitely got the better end of that deal)

                                         Another view of the dropped ceiling and ugly light.

Pantry Updates

Well... No matter how much sweet talking I do, I am not going to be able to use the old door that I want for a pantry door. The door is to wide to use in the space we have. So it looks like my husband wins this one.

 

Again... I LOVE other peoples opinions and thoughts. When my Dad came over on Saturday he asked us if we board all the door ways off and leave this small opening for the pantry door how are you going to get the washer and dryer in and out.... WOW! We hadn't thought that through. It looks like we are going to install a pocket door to make sure we have the widest opening possible. We will have a few inches on the safe side for the washer and dryer to fit.

 

 My husband has re-routed the dryer line and opened up the space for the door to be put in. The washer box has been turned around into the pantry and we were able to tap into the water line for the refrigerator.

 

 

This was the original door way into the bedroom. Soon you will never know it was here.

 

Master Bedroom

The pictures are dark but you can see the progress. There was a door in the master bedroom leading to the back porch. The bedroom is quite small and I kept wondering how I was going to fit our bed (a California King) in this room and still be able to have a functioning door, plus I didn't like having so many doors to the outside. Eventually we want to add a master bedroom onto the house and turn this into another "kids" room. It finally dawned on me.... DUH! Put a window in. So we did.

My husband and his great brother worked ALL night one night and one of the things they did was put the window in... It looks great! I scraped the popcorn ceiling off, and my Dad helped re texture the ceiling Saturday. We just have to re texture the new dry wall and paint!

An outside looking in look. We have a lot of fixing to do on the outside.

E's room update

I love people's opinions... I had my Mom come over and help paint and she mentioned that the thin stripe would look cute in gray. Wow! I am such a copy cat that I hadn't thought about changing the color.

 

I decided to do the stripe in gray and I love it! Now I have another color to decorate with in her room too. I finished the flooring and added the baseboards, and painted her closet on Saturday. Now just touch ups and paint the trim around the door and window and Evalyn's room is ready to move in!