Almost done!!

Okay so we are not quite done but we are so close it is certainly worth blogging about. After having my house torn apart and upside down for 6 weeks we were finally able to get things back to some normalcy. We did run out of time this last weekend so there are some things left to do like finish organizing things, caulking and finish a few pieces of quarter round but that is easy enough and will be finished this week.

While we were moving stuff out of the office this tall bookshelf broke : ( But because we have spent enough money on other things there was no way we could afford to buy another one to replace it. Marc said "it's okay we can just stack the books on the floor until we can get a new one." I was not okay with that plan, so on Thursday I spent some time in the morning fixing the bookshelf. Now it is even sturdier than it was to begin with. Yes, I am proud of myself : ) Benjamin enjoyed 'helping' me fix the shelf and put the books back on.

In the office (where most of the damage was) there was a section of wall under the window that had some water damage. We knew about it and stopped the leaking right away which was a few years ago. We were hoping that we could just paint over it and not worry about another fix. Well we were wrong. As I took the roller and ran it across the wall it crumbled. . . At that point my heart just sank into my stomach, now what do we do?! Well after a quick call to my mom we came up with a simple solution. Because it was plaster we scraped off that part of the wall until it stopped crumbling, then took some sheet rock mud and filled in the hole. It took a couple of layers and hours of drying time but then we sanded it and . . .

VOILA we have a patched wall. It's not perfect, but nothing in this house is perfect so it matches just fine : ) We did finish painting around the patched part so we could finish the room. We figured we could easily paint just that little part after the room was back together. So now I have my little sewing spot back!!! YAY!! I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to NOT have all of that stuff upstairs where the kids can get into it every minute of every day!

This is the 'office' side of the room before the computer and filing cabinet was moved back in. It gives you a really good idea about the painting job we did. We left the trim the color it was before (which was the same color as the walls) and then we picked a nice BRIGHT white for the walls. The room it 100 times brighter than it was before and I LOVE IT!

In the bathroom this is the wall where that nasty, icky plaster stuff was that we didn't want to fix with more plaster and we were scared to rip it out and put sheet rock in for a few reasons.

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1. Plaster sucks!

2. There is nothing to attach the sheet rock to

3. If we took it down the rest of the way we most likely would have had to take down more walls to make it work.

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So instead Marc and Dad pushed back what was left of the plaster, and then screwed some boards up there in a very MaGyver sort of way. After that was up Marc put on some wainscoting, some quarter round and a corner piece. After slapping on some paint we think it turned out great! Yes there is still some caulking to do and the light to put back up but hey, doesn't it look good!? Oh and speaking of painting the white on the walls didn't match the new white paint we put on the ceiling so we ended up having to paint all of the white walls in the bathroom again!! It has been a few years so I guess the white did dull but still that was a little annoying. Even with that though, I'm so glad we have some order back into our house, I'm glad we have new pipes and a new water heater. Our next project. . . fix the holes in the furnace room and rip down the rest of the ceiling. But that is gonna have to wait a little bit, ya know until our pocket book stops hurting. ; )