Still chipping away at it

So sorry for the delayed post.  As soon as we moved in to our new house, our next three weekends were spent either out of town visiting family, or having family in town visiting us.  Needless to say, we haven’t made A LOT of progress since the last update.

But, because I know you all were on the edge of your seat waiting for this, I’ll write a short post about what we’ve been, and will be, working on.

I mentioned a few posts back that I tried to use a product by Rust-Oleum to “refinish” our upstairs bath tub.  After a few weeks, my frustration has died down a bit, and the tub isn’t TOO bad.  It definitely has some noticable drips, and some little bumps where the epoxy bubbled while drying, but, from a distance, it looks fine.  The test will be how long it lasts.

Before

After

The Drips

The other project I’m still working on is reupholstering the dining room chairs that came with the house.  I am done with four of the six chairs, and will hopefully have the last two finished this weekend.  I’m posting before-and-after now, but next week I’ll have all the pictures for the full tutorial.  I promise!

Here is my list of things that need to get done in July:

• Fix the stairs and have carpet installed
• Paint and install the downstairs doors – bathroom, coat closet, utility closet, door to basement
• Rehang upstairs doors and get last coat of paint on them
• Finish dining chairs
• Install mirror in full bath upstairs (which requires moving an outlet 😦 )
• Find entry way mirror and hang it
• Upholster antique chairs for family room
• Weed, weed, weed (the outside of the house needs our attention!)

Here’s a pic of Tracy and Bashful enjoying the new house.  Thanks again for reading!

Move-In

With all of the craziness of moving in, and not having internet last week, I didn’t make it around to posting.  Here are some before and afters, now that we’ve moved in.  I’ll try to take some video this week and get it posted so you can see everything in perspective.

The house is still a work in progress, but we’re pretty happy with it so far 🙂

Table and Chairs

Before

After

Master Bedroom

Before

 

After – the good side

After – the bad side (doors will be white, and maybe we’ll have them on by Fall…)

Family Room 

Before

After (there will eventually be two sitting chairs on either side of the coffee table, facing each other…as soon as I figure out how to reupholster them)

Living Room

Before

After (still waiting on our coffee table to come in)

Camoflauge (Camo) Room – now known as Guest Bedroom #2

Before

After 

For the most part, we’ll just be picking away at things over the next couple weeks.  Doors still need to be painted and hung, the mirror and vanity light need to be installed in the upstairs bathroom, the downstairs half bath needs the sink installed, and, at some point we have to tackle the floor trim.

I also need to finish up my project of upholstering the dining chairs, and start upholstering the chairs for the Family Room.  Adventures in Upholstering posts to come soon 🙂

Thanks for reading!