WOW!!!

So today was the HOTTEST day of 2012 so far I'm pretty sure...and doesn't that just make sense?  It was day 1 of drywall hanging - and NO AIR CONDITIONING IS ALLOWED WITH ALL THE DRYWALL DUST!!  The guys got here right at 7 a.m. (ewwww...I don't want to be up and moving yet at 7 a.m....but I drug myself up since this was such an exciting day!)  It was absolutely AMAZING how fast these guys can work...I think I may have gone in to momentary shock while watching them, lol.

When I came to check around noonish they already had all of the ceilings done...

 

Look at how much better that looks without old insulation falling out of the ceiling, ha ha!

Front Bedroom

View of the Kitchen area...it looks SOOOO different!

The laundry half of the "clutter" room.  Kade walked in here tonight, came back out and said

"Our laudry room is so cute" lol.  I would have to agree with him on that one too!

Master Bedroom Bath & Closet

View of 1/2 Bath/Mudroom/Clutter Room from the Kitchen. 

I just can't believe what all they got done today...absolutely AMAZING!!

On a side note...a little damage has been done to my Grandma's old sewing table base that I was using for the sink base.  :(  I guess to much moving it around - the back support bar broke.

 

Hopefully we can figure out a way to still make it work...I just loved it together with the sink top I found.  Remember how cute they look?

 I still love it :)  We've just GOT to make it work!

 

It's not SUPER obvious where the break actually is!

Since the guys were working upstairs on drywall, we worked in the basement.  The bedroom wall was originally a 2x4 wall with cedar boxing in around the post.  We knew we weren't going to be happy with that.  The light switch for the bedroom and the outlet were both on that post...so you had to walk into the room about 6 feet before you could even turn the light on.  Pretty annoying if you ask me!  So we removed that wall and will rebuild it with 2x6's...completely enclosing the post and moving the switch to its proper location.  It's going to be so much nicer!  Ya know...sometimes I do wish that we could just skimp on our work, lol, we probably would have been done with the entire house by now if we didn't want to make everything perfect!

 It looks HUGE without that wall there...not that a 16x18 bedroom is small even with the wall up, lol

We finally got the old insulation out too...I can't wait to see how the basement turns out!

The guys will be back around 8 in the morning to finish hanging the drywall.

How come we can't work at the same pace that they do?

More of the same...

Just lots of little stuff.  Where did all of this little, never ending stuff come from??  On the bright side...the faucet came for my special half bath sink.  Remember it?

I still love it!

Isn't it cool?  3 individual pieces...very "vintage" looking!

This is actually the second faucet that I've purchased, lol.  The first one didn't even come close to working!  Everything happens for a reason...because this one I actually LOVE...the first one was just...'eh...o.k.  Now Im really want to get this show on the road so I can see it IN PLACE!!  COME ON!!!  Why are we so slow??  (Maybe because there's only two of us + the occasional Dad working??)

Concrete Day!

FINALLY!!  We got the giant hole in the basement floor filled!  Man...it was hot today too....and so humid!  (of course it was, did we expect it to be nice, breezy and perfect for concrete pouring??) lol!

 

Kade ran the concrete mixer, Dad hauled in the wheelbarrows and Dad and I organized and worked on the finishing.  This is not a good job for a perfectionist!!

We were all ready...had it filled in with rock last night!  YES!

It will be so nice to no longer have to mind the big gaping hole in the floor!!

It only took a few loads before they had a good mix going!

EXCITING, lol!

Look at that!  NO HOLE!!!

Beautiful! (well, as beautiful as concrete can be!)

We were all done by lunch time!  I couldn't believe it!  So this afternoon we worked on finishing it and then I had a genius idea (or so I think!!)  I've still been searching for a vanity for the half bath...but not having any luck.  I'm just not a regular cabinet kind of girl  :)  So my wheels have been spinning.

 Remember when I bought the peg leg sink and forgot the peg leg at the store?

Well here's how I think I'm going to use it!

That would be the base to my Grandma Pape's old sewing table.  She apparently sat her plants on it and watered them!!  Needless to say...this is all that's left (well...this, and a few of the drawers which I intend to use at some point too!)  I can't believe they actually fit together so well!  Kade's not as much of a fan as I am....he's a little worried about it having enough support...so I might have to have someone weld me an extra support or something....I'll figure it out!!

I LOVE IT!!  That is SO MY STYLE!!

See...sometimes my brain can come up with some cool stuff!

A Beautiful Day!

Wow...can't believe how nice the weather was today!  I decided I'd better go try and buy that dresser that I want to use as a vanity in our hallway bath.  Yesterday we worked on plumbing all day, so we're getting to a point where we really need to know EXACTLY what's going in each room.  Good news...it was still there...remember it?

I think that'll be so cute!

While I was there they also had this...love it...I'll probably end up refinishing it...but maybe I'll leave it chippy for awhile.  Since both were from the same seller I made a deal and got both for $350!! Yeah!

Saw this too....might have to turn that into the vanity in the basement bathroom!

Found this sink too...it's an old pegleg pedestal (I forgot the leg at the antique store though)

Bought it to try and do something like this...

I love how the sink sits on top of the cabinet.

Got this cart too...from the same seller as the sink...$50 for both!  I wanted one of these to put on the pantry side of the laundry room at the end of the cabinets.

It would go right there to the left of the base cabinets.  Cute!

A very productive day of shopping I would say.....and IT'S ABOUT TIME!!  :)