Window Sills & MORE PAINT!

Look!  It's our very first INSTALLED window sill!  Don't you love it?  I do!  Kade did a great job fitting these.  EVERY window had to be custom fit. (imagine that!)

First one installed was the one over the kitchen sink.

It's strange to look and actually see window sills and not just unfinished window :)

Kade got ALL of the new sills installed today.

For some reason he decided he wanted to use "real" nails and not the nail gun.

So there he is...using the nail set and setting each nail he put in.

(I seriously think we BOTH make everything harder than it needs to be!)

I went ahead and did just ONE MORE COAT of paint on the clutter room cabinets.

NOW they should be good to go!

In these pictures from day to day I seriously don't htink I can see ANY difference in the coverage, but I assure you...they needed just one more coat :)

I can't wait to rip this plastic out of there and reveal the "new" cabinets in all of their glory.

Next step is to poly the cabinet doors which are all still down in the basement...

(yikes...makes me nervous just saying it!)

and then head back upstairs and give the cabinet boxes a few coats before I can put this room together once and for all!

I wonder how long I've taken on this room so far...

(note to self) It probably would have cost less to just buy finished cabinets at this point!

How depressing!

Ready to Go...AGAIN

Well...the cabinet boxes are ONCE AGAIN primed and ready to paint!  This has got to be the LONGEST cabinet re-do EVER!!

At least they're not SUPER yellow anymore!

The funny thing is....I honestly tried to convince myself that the yellow tint & streaks just made them look "antiqued" ha, ha.  Thank goodness I decided to just go for it! (Well...maybe not "thank goodness", but I think I will be glad in the end!)

I also got the window sills primed (finally)

Tomorrow I can give them a coat of paint and then Kade can finally get them installed!

 I can't wait to see how they look in the end.  So glad we took the extra step of having the lumber milled and getting that full 1" thick board.

Can't we do ANYTHING that's easy??

(or at least QUICK!)

This and That

Today was one of those days that was just a little bit of everything.  First thing I did this morning was run down and check the wash tub that I bought for the laundry sink.

water level looked good...

don't see anything around the bottom...

and NOTHING underneath!  Yeah!

It passed the water test!

Then I took it outside to attempt to make it have a little less shine  :)

After a google search I found a post where they said that Lysol toilet bowl cleaner would "age" galvanized metal....so....you know what I did next!

(here's the actual post)

I grabbed a sponge and an old piece of cardboard that I've been spraying when I clean out my paint sprayer and headed to the front yard.  It was so nice and sunny this afternoon.

This is the brand of tub that I bought.

Hopefully this works!!

Here's what the final result was after the toilet bowl cleaner sat for an hour and a half.

It looks better....but I think I may give it another coat tomorrow...maybe I'll put it on a little thicker.

So while I was doing this, Kade started cutting the new window sills.

We had our local milling company make us some 1" x 3.5" x 8' poplar boards.

The old sills were a full inch thick...and I really liked that more than even a 3/4" board.

Kade really is good at whatever he does.

After he cut and double checked the fit on the new sills he handed them over to me and I eased all of the edges and gave them all their final sanding.

Don't those just look chunky and nice :)

I almost feel bad having to put primer on them!

This is an example of what we're working with (sorry the pic is so dark)

The house already had replacement windows and jamb extensions, so we have to just make it work.

 I think that's a pretty good fit.  Our side pieces are 3.5"if I remember correctly.

Hopefully tomorrow we can get the 2 kitchen windows all trimmed out.

(it's almost funny what I think we can get done in a day...seriously...you'd think I would learn)

I labeled all of the backs of the sills so we'd know where they go...JUST IN CASE!

We must have been really motivated today, lol!

I also finished up the polyurethane in the clutter room (laundry/pantry)

Don't you like how I taped off what I had left to do.

Hey, I didn't want to get polyurethane on the ceiling!

Why does prep always take longer than actually doing the job??

It's seriously ridiculous sometimes!

Laundry...

DONE!

Pantry...

DONE!

Now I've just gotta get those cabinet doors done

(for real, what is my problem??)
They're on the schedule (in my head) for tomorrow.

(as well as more toilet bowl cleaner on the wash tub, finishing window sills with Kade, and trimming out the kitchen windows, lol.  Wonder if I'll actually get any of it done!)