House Projects Update!

It's solid projection mania unopen to here. I wanted to hold off until nosotros had at to the lowest degree 1 projection consummate thus that for 1 time I could demonstrate an "after" picture, exactly hey, we're notwithstanding workin' thus yet some other postal service virtually projects inwards progress volition withdraw keep to do. Here's what we've got going on...

The Bathroom
It's been completely gutted, as well as Josh is working on putting upward the drywall as well as installing the shower kit equally I type. We opted to remain away from the plastic showers yous "pop in" as well as instead are doing a custom tiled shower. It's a ton of work, including pouring cement, grading the flooring thus the H2O flows toward the drain, installing H2O barriers as well as a curb unopen to the base, cutting tile, grouting, as well as sealing. You acquire the picture. My contribution to the bath is refinishing the oak cabinet nosotros are using equally the sink stand, as well as refinishing an former flea marketplace position mirror to role inwards a higher identify the sink. Josh is a proficient guy, as well as he has besides allow me accept over the choosing as well as ordering the fixtures, tile, lighting, etc. We had a prissy vessel sink delivered in conclusion calendar week that I can't hold off to popular on overstep of the oak cabinet. I'll force together dedicated posts for those pieces 1 time nosotros withdraw keep something to show, exactly inwards the meantime, here's a pocket-size sneak peek of the sink cabinet beingness refinished (the overstep was previously painted black):

The Stairs

The stairway leading downwardly to the basement was inwards stone oil shape. The stairs were bare, muddied wood, as well as the walls were covered inwards nighttime forest paneling. I sanded as well as stained the tops of the stairs, as well as nosotros both worked on icon the kickboards as well as walls Navajo white. The upper percentage of the walls volition live a low-cal sage green. We besides constitute a novel low-cal fixture to supervene upon the electrical current tardily one. Here's a pocket-size sneak peek at the refinished/painted stairs:

The French Doors

We constitute a distich of flea marketplace position french doors as well as sanded/painted them to role betwixt the percentage as well as sleeping accommodation downstairs. We finally hung them yesterday, as well as patch a fleck of tweaking on the hinges as well as knob hardware is notwithstanding needed to acquire them to unopen properly, I'm actually liking how they turned out. Considering this wall was previously a weird opened upward cupboard amongst pipes running through, this is a big improvement!

The Rock Wall

As mentioned in conclusion calendar week nosotros are edifice a stone retaining wall for the kitchen garden adjacent to the house. Building a stone wall yesteryear paw is incredibly labor intensive. If nosotros had a tractor to selection upward as well as carry the rocks for us, we'd likely live done yesteryear now, exactly nosotros are literally climbing downwardly into river beds, pulling out rocks yesteryear hand, 1 yesteryear one, thus lugging them dorsum to the truck bed. One. Rock. At. A. Time. We boundary ourselves to a few hours a hateful solar daytime doing this, equally some of the rocks are a few hundred pounds each, as well as carrying those unopen to actually takes it out of you. On the vivid side, I am learning proper lifting form. Squat deep, force through the heels, breast to the sky, elevator amongst your legs! Here's what a typical stone gathering run looks like:

That's all for now! Hope everyone had a slap-up weekend. We are heading to NYC on Th to encounter my dad's band play at Birdland, as well as I am actually looking forwards to some fourth dimension inwards the metropolis amongst solid unit of measurement as well as friends. Winter was pretty as well as all, exactly I'm ecstatic to finally live able to accept a trip as well as relish the warmer temps!