Still Flooring!

What is it about snow that makes everything look so calm and beautiful?  Every time that I see snow covered branches it's like automatic peacefulness (is that even a word??)  It was so pretty tonight.  We didn't get a ton of snow...but it was wet, sticky snow that just stayed right where it landed.  I had to sneak off with my phone and snap this shot real quick  :)  This was the view out of our laundry room window tonight.

Ok, ok...we did get some work done today too.  Back to the flooring.  We worked in the dining room, hallway and middle bedroom today.  We made some good progress I think.

Middle bedroom...it's getting so close now.

Notice how we had to move our "railing" again.  We're going to have to take it out totally pretty soon and that is going to be DANGEROUS!!  Everybody better be VERY careful when they walk in our front door!

Looks like only another day or so till it's finished.  It's going to get interesting though.  We're going to have to make sure the hallway flooring and the dining room flooring meet at the same distance in front of the front door...YIKES!  This will be a true test of how well we've done our job!

You'd think hallways would go SO FAST since it's just one or two pieces to make up the total width...but it takes just as long as everywhere else, lol.

Tomorrow we'll have to glue in another "spline" for in front of the stairs, then modify the board that will go in to that spot.  I sure don't know how anybody can get all of their hardwood flooring installed in a week!!  lol.  They must be magical :)

Another One Down!

Woo-hoo!  Master Bedroom flooring....CHECK!  (Well...almost)  We've still got to turn around in the bathroom, so that's about 2', and then we've got to do all of the cut pieces that go around the finished edge.  Still though...more progress...and that is great!

I think we might actually be getting a little quicker on the install!

The open door with the light is the master bath...where my clawfoot tub goes (yeah!!)!!

Here's the bathroom - see the edge on the left...skinny...man I hate it when that happens!

We'll have to cut and glue in another spline so we can change the direction in here and GET 'ER DONE!!!

Back to The Floor...and MO PITNEY!! YEAH!!

We're back to working on the floor today.  Have I mentioned that when you bounce between projects that it takes FOREVER to finish anything??  Well, that's just the way it goes I guess.  We've always got to do just one more thing before we can continue on with another!  Progress was made though.  We turned the direction of the flooring in the Master Bedroom and we're on a roll again!

Not terrible for progress!

Oohhh....I just love that floor...a pain in the rear to install?  yes....but I love it!

So I guess that makes it worth it!

I sure hope I calculated enough flooring, lol.

So tonight we took a little break (It's our once a month winter show at Harman Auction date break!)

The Harmans were great as usual!

Special Guest - Mo Pitney & Family!  Love this guy!

His lyrics, his voice...amazing!

The Pitney's minus Blake...I have no idea where he was!

Harman Boys playing with Mo!  Love the smiles on Mark & Mo's faces!

Another of Mo.  Seriously....watch out for this kid in 2013!

Is it bad that I already can't wait to see/hear him perform again?

Watch for www.mopitney.com to learn more!

Back to reality!!

Dresser to Vanity....DONE...and more!

The hall bath vanity is finally DONE!  Yeah!  So, I couldn't quite get to the color that I was hoping for....in fact...it almost looks like it didn't absorb any stain at all...but I'm still happy with the way it turned out!  I finished this while Kade was at work.

I just love the curves of this dresser.  Now we've got to modify the drawers, etc. for the sink, water and drain lines.

 

We finally started the hardwood flooring tonight.  I am IN LOVE with the flooring!

Rustic, handscraped solid 3/4" walnut...ahhhh

Hopefully today wasn't an indicator of how this part of the project is going to go though....if so...it's going to be MONTHS before we can get all of the flooring in.