operation back to work

Wow, it has been a long time since I updated.  Amazing how fast time seems to go.  It is already June and we have now been living in the basement for fourteen months.  Yep, just our one room basement!  Well tonight, my husband and I will sleep in our own room for the first time!  YEAH!!!!!  It has been a long time coming but it is finally here.  It is going to be beautiful!  We decided to go with pink and black with a little bit of brass so we could work around the bathtub.  The ceiling will be tongue and grove wood antiqued white. The walls are done and you will see below the stripes that I painted this week.  I have never painted anything like that and especially on textured walls.  So off to the internet I went to get some directions.  Wow did I ever get a great site.  I will have to say that I was surprised myself at how well it turned out.  The lines are very clean and strait. We have painted the floors until we get the rest of the house done and then we will lay carpet.  We have put up guttering and it seems as if that has stopped all leaks into the basement which has made for a very dry spring...yipee!  Little things are so awesome in this renovation project.  Here are a few photos for now.  Hopefully I will get back into the habit of updating this site again.

working on our master bedroom

master bedroom

painting the closet

finishing the master bedroom closet

master bedroom wall stripes

gutter

preparing the guttering

finally done, no more leaks

operation little things

Just a couple of random things getting done around here since I have had surgery.  It has been so cold, even too cold to be upstairs working.  Besides that, it is a full time job for the rest of the family to get done what mom usually does. (hehehehe)  We did get the duct hooked up to the laundry room.  We also got the door up to the closet that is off the laundry room for out of season clothing and coats.  We were going to go with all oak doors but decided that the theme will be very rustic, so white painted doors will be a much better fit for us.  I love these arched doors.  Hoping by the end of February to have the whole laundry room finished.  We also put up some temporary  light too.  I would really like to have a chandelier in there but who knows. Haven't broke that to the hubs yet.  Don't you tell him either!  LOL  

This won't be the trim we use but it came with the door.

A blessing having lights when you come in.

operation little extras

Just wanted to update the blog with the little things we have done this month.  David worked a job at the local hospital where he had to do a tear out and clean up.  Everything had to be thrown away so he brought home a box of white sheets.  I decided that they would make good make-shift curtains until the house is done and we can make "real" curtains.  I made a set for each window and hung them.  It sure does make the house look better from the outside too.  Almost as if it is done.  LOL  We also separated the lights in the basement where we can now turn on a switch instead of going to the fuse box every time we want to turn on a light.  Now I can sew and just have those lights on or the kids can do school and we don't have to have all the big lights on at once.  Not really a thing you can "see" but it was a very necessary thing.  David also built a box around the old part of the basement wall that was sticking out.  I have uploaded a photo where you can see what it looked like before he built a box around it and then after the box was built the other day.  He placed my light switch there for the sewing area.  When I am up on my feet again (just has foot surgery) I am going to stencil on it so it is not so plain.  It is very nice as it hides that old wall and gives me something else that I can decorate.  We did get some more snow too.  Had to upload that photo also.  We got  nine inches and it drifted in the yard.  Lots of fun for the kids!  We have done some drywall and wiring upstairs too but somehow have not gotten photos yet and I am chair bound so will try to upload those photos later this week when I can get som

"Sheet" curtians for the whole house!

That is a 6' dog fence in the background and notice the 5' pool on the left.

Box built over old basement wall piece that stuck out.

Old basement wall that was built over.