LAST ROW!

Finally, it was time to put the first coat of paint on the cabinet boxes.  I worked on that today while Kade was at work.  They're lookin' better already!

You can't even see where any of my nail holes are, lol.

Coverage is not quite as good as I had hoped.  I'm using flat paint for these cabinets, and will put a few coats of polyurethane on when I'm finished.  I've found that is what works the best for us.

Laundry side

Pantry side

Our progress for this evening...

FINALLY!!  The hardwood is mostly down.  Now it's just closets and edge peices!

I thought this day would NEVER come!

Dang Closet Doors! (and more floor)

I never thought it would be so hard to do EVERY job in this house...and lots of them all at the same time, lol.  HELLO!  I'm not exactly sure how I thought this was going to go.  We've gotten quite a bit farther on the flooring.  Just about done with the front bedroom now.  I think only 9 rows left to go!  This is the LAST actual room.  Then it's finish the closets and finish all of those darn cut edge pieces.

This pic really makes the ancient marble paint look green.

Can you believe...the double closet doors in the bedroom (pictured a few weeks ago) are now two individual doors.  UGH!  We didn't have them screwed in and they fell out of the opening and hit a storage shelf that we had in that bedroom.  Thankfully this was before the flooring went in!  We're going to try and order a new piece of split jamb and hopefully we'll be able to fix them.  Just one more little thing that's going to take an extra day or two to fix.

Floor, Floor, More Floor

Around the stairs we go!  This is going to get interesting in a few days!!!  You know we have to meet up at the other end of the stair opening with the flooring that we put down that hallway!!  YIKES!

It just doesn't seem like we get anywhere very quickly, lol.

It's lookin' good around the stairs though!

That's the stair nose trim around the top.  LOVE IT.

This picture makes the floor look SUPER crooked, but I can assure you that it is not :)
Must have been the way I was standing and trying to get everything in the pic!

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!!!

As ready as we're going to be!

Well...the last 3 days have just flown by.  Wednesday and Thursday were pretty nice, but Friday was cold and drizzly.  (is that a word? drizzly? You know what I mean!)

I can't believe my hibiscus is still looking so fabulous!!

Friday Dad went and got some catfish to put in our lake and the lake on the farm.  These are the albino's.  They are so funny looking.  I REALLY hope they can make it.  They're only 4-6" now.

And we are ready for tomorrow in terms of the flooring.  It blows my mind how long it takes us.  It must be because of the "rustic" and "solid" aspect of it.  You can't just slide it into place and nail.  I sit there and tap it in (ok, sometimes I have to hammer it REALLY hard) to get it into place.  Then Kade stays standing and he does all of the nailing.  I must admit.  I'm picky about which boards go where also.  I really do inspect every board, lol.  Now....we've got to get to bed...morning will be here before we know it.

The Kitchen!

So we've GOT to get the flooring done in the kitchen, at least far enough so that we can install the island cabinets.  The guy is coming from the cabinet company Saturday morning to help us with the install.  There was a bit of an error in the cabinets that we ordered (the style wasn't exactly what we thought we had ordered) so they're lending us the installer free of charge to make up for it.  We decided that would be better than having them replace every cabinet door in the kitchen/mud room.  I think there are 39 cabinets....several and quite a few with double doors....so that would just be awful!

ANYWAY - we used a piece of plywood to put down where the cabinets will actually sit.  That gave us a good base to install the floor against - didn't have to worry about our rows pushing back (unless we didn't install the plywood straight, ha)

We made quite a bit of progress...but that's TWO days of installing.

Seriously

We...are...slow!

Hopefully this week we can get it all ready for Saturday.  It shouldn't be that much of a problem though....we probably need 8 more rows??  (this room is like 30' wide though)

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.