Cabinets are In the House

This is the light fixture above our table. Mom says per HGTV, we're right in style. I told the electrician to install all of our lights with the glass down - I didn't want any cup type lights that would hold flies!! Even though this house shouldn't have many flies - you never know!

This shows some of our kitchen cabinets. The French door type refrig. will be to the right of the tall pantry cabinet. The stove to the right of the next section.



A set of closet doors. Sneak peek at the guest room wall color!

We had another plastic covered screen blow out and get bent today so the decision was made to put all the hardware back on the windows that were out to be stained and put them all back in. The painting ladies will have to take the hardware back off, take the windows back out, etc. Mon.

We Have Light!

Entry light fixture. We're doing antique pewter door handles & hardware which is a newer finish. It was hard to get everything in that so some things are brushed nickel which is close.




We got this idea from someone else. These are sconces that will be over our night stands - with their own light switch below. Saves having a lamp on the night stands. Sneak peek at the master bedroom wall colors.


Basement dropped ceiling & lighting for stamp classes.







Kitchen window stained.

Tonight we tried to get some of the dust off the floors before cabinets are brought in tomorrow. This is probably the last time we'll see Bill mopping! Bill had the idea to sprinkle the floor with my watering can, mop and then suck up the dirty water with the shop vac. Worked pretty well.

Moving Day

Well, not *that* moving day unfortunately! Bill just moved some equipment around. The planter has been checked over and is ready to go so it needed to be put away. For the non-farmers, here's kind of a typical moving session. Bill moved an auger (with a tractor) from Tim's to the machine shed, got the 2 semis & combine out of the shed and called me. I picked him up there and took him back to Tim's to get the planter. He pulled it to the machine shed and got it backed in (picture). Then he put the semis & combine back in. Everything just fits so so in that building! He drove the tractor back to his mom's and then I took him to get his truck which was at the bin site. Mom advised me to always take something to read when I'm involved in these things for the wait time - which I do! I can drive between the places lots faster than he can go with the equipment.

This is Diane & Lacey's dog Boden. He's hyper. Todd has a German short hair hunting dog named Riley.

Lots going on at the house today. Chris, the electrician, brought all of the light fixtures and they got some put up, guys were working on the dropped ceiling in the basement and the painters started staining windows.

Quick Update

Have had a couple of busy days - yesterday our phone rang all day and I had a large Stampin' Up! workshop to close out and enter plus received some other orders during the day. (Sale-A-Bration is still going on until 3/31) The painters were here. Once they came over and said "come quick, you have water running from upstairs to the basement floor". I grabbed a coat and ran outside and promptly fell on my right hand due to ice on the wood we're using to walk on over the mud. My hand is much better today. The water was a shower drain that wasn't installed all the way. The painters were cleaning the showers & tub for us so they could do a good job caulking and painting around them. Another time they came over and said "come look at your bedroom walls before we put on the last coat". They looked great. As of the end of the day yesterday they had all of the colors on.

Bill put in the screens we had covered with plastic so they could start staining our windows when ready (probably tomorrow, Thurs.). The wind was so bad here last night that the screens started blowing out - and away! Two were ruined. Bill chased them down and took the rest out and we got them inside. It was not the best day.

Today I was gone most of the day with Diane and Lacey north to Emmetsburg and Spencer for Lacey's dr. appointment and shopping - at the store that has anything you could need or want for St. Patrick's Day and/or the Irish (it's a BIG deal in Emmetsburg), Menard's, Walmart, Matt Furniture Store, the mall & Fairway (grocery). We also had lunch at one of my favorite places, Sum Hing.

Our electrician was here putting in outlets in the basement and will be here tomorrow installing light fixtures Bill says. Exciting! Chuck is coming tomorrow to get the wires into the Media Center which is going to be in the basement utility room and is a neat thing. Will have to explain more about it tomorrow.

Tonight I went to my first P.E.O. meeting and was installed as a member. Nice ceremony and nice group of women.

Basement Painting is Done

Angie and crew faux painted in the basement today. They call this "marbling". They did get the basement finished and got the first coat of color on the Great Room. Mark may be here tomorrow to start the dropped ceiling in the basement.
These 2 pics are of the large room in the basement. It's going to have 3 tables set up all the time for stamp classes - big group meals or meetings? The blue room at the far end is my craft room and there's a half bath you can barely see the doorway of. The blue room is going to have white cabinets & trim.
This is looking the other way in the basement. You can see the stairway going up. Both of these finished rooms will have the "builders' beige" carpet from our current house - that's only 2 years old.

More Shelves

Here are the completed shelves to hold coolers, totes and other big stuff.

We had a dreary morning with some freezing rain and a little snow, now the sun is out.

We were watching the (long) NASCAR race and Bette Jo and Tim came by to see the new house. I meant to take their picture.



These are the shelves for extra canned goods, flower vases (I have several!), etc. and this is in the storm room which is all concrete and under our front porch.

This week will be fun seeing all of the final colors going on the walls. Some rooms are going to be faux painted.