Another weekend of work

We actually had no plans to work over the weekend. It's funny how things just snowball with us. We decided to go pick up the cabinets for the laundry room that we were planning to do the end of the month. It would give us time to get them all together and such before we needed them. Well, one thing led to another and we ripped up the laundry room, powder room and entry from the garage. Everything came out and we went in with dry wall repair and paint. Ed also fixed the air leak at the electrical box in the laundry room. We actually had ice forming there due to the extremely cold temperatures we have been experiencing lately. And when it melted it ran down the wall. Not good. We do have plans to cover that box up so it's not such an eyesore. 

Before picture was from one of the listings when we bought the house. I forgot to take pictures before we ripped everything out. 

Here it is now. 

Do you see that pretty light? I talked Edward into letting me get the KRISTALLER light fixture from IKEA to put in the laundry room. It doesn't give off a lot of light but we are adding under cabinet lighting anyway. He thought I was nuts but it has definitely grown on him. I told him I wanted to have a "fancy" laundry room. lol It's not the biggest laundry area (more like a closet) so at least I can make it pretty. 

The laundry room is ready for the cabinets to go in this weekend. The powder room has been stripped of the wallpaper border that was put up by someone else. That stuff was a pain to get off. I scored it with the scoring tool and sprayed it down then scraped after 15 minutes then repeated. Yuck. And the paint colors are some kind of strange. No idea what was happening in this room with the paint, or throughout the rest of the house for that matter. 

This picture is also from the listing. Who thinks to take pics of rooms they don't like? lol I was so excited to rip that paper off I didn't even think about pictures. 

We found 3 paint colors in the powder room. Actually that occurred in a couple of the rooms on the main floor. No idea what was happening.

We are very happy with the way the living room came out with the new cabinets. I think the benefit vs. the effort was much greater than the original plan. If we had been able to do the original plan we would still be working on it and the house would be a bigger mess than it is. My dining room is now home to all of the stuff from the laundry room, powder room and entry from the garage. Ed took the dining room table apart and it's leaning on the wall behind the cabinets we will be installing this weekend but have yet to put together. 

One of the changes we are making to the laundry room is the door. It's a 32 inch door and it seems to take up so much of the room that we are going to change it to a 32 inch bifold door. It will make the room seem more open and actually give us a little more space for storing things like the vacuum. 

And to add more craziness to all of this? We ordered the flooring for our entire main floor and it will be here Saturday. We were waiting for it to go on sale and it did. It's 10% off plus Ed gets an additional 10% off using his military discount PLUS they are doing 11% back by rebate. Ed figured it was between 27% and 28% off total. That's a freakin' steal! When we bought the upstairs flooring it was 8% off plus military discount and we thought we had done well. I am so thankful for sales, discounts and rebates! Yay! 

We have a lot to work on over the next couple of weekends. Our daughter goes back to work from maternity leave on the 29th and I will be watching her 3 children aged 3 1/2, 15 months and newborn. Plus I am still homeschooling the boys so we have band, music lessons and ASL classes on top of our normal school work. Oh and I also have to do laundry and keep up the house! Luckily our other daughter is staying with us right now and can help out when needed. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Chris