Dining before and after

I know I put one up of my mostly clean dining room but here is a comparison from being a storage room for 3 months to currently. My house is starting to feel like a house again. Thanks to everyone who has helped us out!

Clean up

For the most part I have a dining room again. Just going to need a
couple weeks to get caught up on the garbage and recycling pile we
accumulated this last week.

Henry's room POST

We just need to buy and install his blinds and his room is done.
Again, thanks Becca for the help. Having you around helped us stay on
task and get TONS done fast.

Libby's room POST

Just needs to put her toys away and we need another of her curtain and
them we can put them up. Thanks Becca for the help.

Kitchenette

Just needs a fridge, water turned on and supplies. So excited to stock it!

Guest room moving in

Guest bathroom mostly done

It's Christmas in the Den

Henry's room PRE

Libbys room PRE

Finished brick

It's done! Just needs to finish drying. As it dries it starts to look
just like the other brick. Hopefully you will never know we had to add
to it.

Bed is sanded and painted.

Now can I set up her room? Nope. Hopefully Friday.

A raspberry for you.

So happy!

The brick is going up!

Tile in laundryroom/bathroom

Kitchenette almost done

This area is almost done

Just need the brick and some paint. Oh and hook the dryer back up. :D

Before Tile

Start of the shower walls

Tile in the new kitchen area

Doors

New doors that they are installing. Mike picked them. Now that I have seen them in person and installed, I love them!

MJ 5 Months

MJ is five months old today. In some ways it seems like she should be a year old and others I can't believe she is already five months.

As you can see in the picture she is already as tall as the port-a-crib is wide. She is wearing a 6-9 month outfit. This is just so weird to me as with the other kids about this time we are FINALLY moving them up to 3-6 month clothing. She really is going to be our tall one.

She loves it when you play with her. She loves Patty Cake and riding the horse like the others have. She also likes being in the saucer now and sometimes can get it to rotate. She loves to grin REALLY big when she first wakes up in the morning. It just starts my day out right.

MJ has started grabbing hair, and she has a fantastic grip. She seems to really enjoy Henry right now. Whenever he is in charge of keeping her from crying she smiles a lot at his dancing and singing. All the kids are just loving having her around.

She has really turned on the drool. She is also good at raspberries. She also has this cute little growl she does. I love it. I will try to get it on video.  She can roll over but mostly does it when she should be going to sleep therefore making it hard to go to sleep.  I am sure she would do it more often but I don't have many places I can lay her on the floor to play.  Soon.

She also likes to look at ANYTHING that produces light. Whenever I burp her and our room is dark, she will contort her body just so she can turn and look at my clock.

She is crazy and we all love her tons!

Rambo MJ

Guestroom drywall

Should be the last one for today.




















In the middle is where the kitchen will be.
Top left and then clockwise:
The closet closest to the window, a little of the other closet, and the new fuse box
Full look of the other closet and part of the doorway (such an exciting picture)
The shower (wow, another great one)
Full shower area
The post is on the right of the picture and you are looking at the outside of the guest bathroom
The wall between the two windows
Another look of the bathroom

I know, totally exciting but things are coming together somewhat quickly now.

Den Drywall

On the left is the window we created in the wall to open up the room. On the right is the really weird area that is now just a nice rectangle and they used to extend the duct work into the guest room. LOVING IT

Laundry room Drywall

Starting top left and going clockwise:
The closet
The shelf behind the washer and dryer
The rest of the wall behind washer and dryer, see the dryer vent?
And the little on the wall WAY above the washer and dryer. There was a pipe that stuck out in the corner so our awesome contractor wanted to clean it up. He takes pride in his work and thinks of all these little things.

Drywall in Bathroom/stairs

By the stairs where the new railing will be, the new doorway to the bathroom, where the door was and we will extend the brick and the doorway into the laundry room.

Discovery

Not a big exciting one but this is what was under the chair rail. I keep going back and forth between liking it and not liking it. Doesn't matter though, it's going away!

3rd room

They are fast! They have only been here about 2 hours and they have 3 rooms done with significant progress on the others. So EXCITING!!! This is the cold storage room. (not as exciting.)

Another Drywalled Room

This is Libby's room and a look from the other direction of the kid's hallway.

start of drywall

This is the new hallway and Henry's room. Sorry, not very good pictures but they are kind of small rooms. Just showing that the drywall is up. More to come, very soon!

Sneak Peak

They were doing prep work today to make sure things are ready for dry wall.  This is finally really really feeling real.  They might start putting up the drywall tomorrow afternoon.

In the bathroom off of the kitchen they took down the chair rail.  (Ugly wood) Under it was some old wall paper.  I will try to put up the picture of it tomorrow, I will be up all night trying to get all the laundry done as my washer and dryer will be out of commission for "at least a week."  Lets hope they all work fast, right?

Sleep well and get some extra sleep for me  :D

Really quick Random from 11-11-11

You have to post with a date like that!

The new washer box on the left was installed today. Bottom right is what we are living in. That, my friends, is my dining room. :D So much fun.

Top right is my attempt to bring some normalcy to my house. I like the idea of decorating for holidays but am really lazy about it. I love putting up this garland every fall. Finally got it up today. It will only be up for about 2 weeks before I do a Christmas one, I hope.

Back to work. I have to constantly clean to keep my kitchen clean enough to eat in. things are happening fast enough now that we should be done about the end of November, I hope.

Sliding Glass Door to Window

In what was Libby's room now the part that is Henry's room there was a sliding glass door. Basically like the one you see on the top right. They removed that and put in the window. The window is smaller than the door so some changes had to be made. As you can see in the bottom right. They added the brick, the ledge and the stucco. It isn't perfect as they just did a straight line but this window is hidden under our deck so it really isn't a big deal. The brick was all originally on the house somewhere, just removed from various other changes. So it all matches really well.

I LOVE IT!!

Little Helper

The electricians were working in the laudnry/bathroom yesterday. Syd was sitting there watching them intently. They asked if she wanted to help, she was so excited. They told her that she needed shoes. I think they thought it might deter her. Nope. She ran and put on her coat and the one shoe that she could fine. I found the other and went to put it on her, she wouldn't let me. SHE had to do it.

They were totally awesome with her. They had her get her little broom and dust pan and had her "help" clean up. She was still cleaning after they left.

(see that tile, it is slippery and ugly. Can't wait to rip it out and put in the new stuff.)

On Masons and Miscellaneous

Mike here this time around. I spent the day finishing up the installation of the network, cable, and phone wiring since well, I sortof enjoy that sort of thing. I should probably let a pro do it, but... Anyway, so the masons came back and refinished the brick around the new windows. It looks great! It also seems warmer in that area too. I think the old window just leaked air like a sieve.

Starting from top left and going clockwise is the finished product, then how it looked before the new windows, then before the new windows with the teeny-tiny window, then the masons taking out the old brick and finally, the scaffolding they put up to get the done.