At the end of June, we were ready to paint most of the
house. I spent a lot of time picking out
paint colors and was eager to see if they actually were going to look good in
the house together. We started painting
the office and Adelaide’s room first. This
was a tiring process as Kevin was working during the day, and we would work
really late at night trying to paint.
Thank goodness for my parents who brought us a home cooked meal one
night for dinner. It was a joy to eat
something other than fast food again.
We marked boundaries for Adelaide to stop at so she would
not come into the rooms we were painting.
She did really good with this and only got her hand in paint a few
times. Most of the time she would watch
a movie; she loved “Let It Go” (aka Frozen). Since we worked later at night, she would
typically fall asleep at the new house before we got done.
After about a week of working at night and most of the
bedrooms painted, we knew we would need some help finishing the rest of the
house. There were so many other things
we could be doing while painting was being done. Therefore, we decided to hire some help. Kevin also took his vacation week off so that
we could get a lot done on the house while they were painting.
This freed us up to get odd and end things completed such as
changing out outlets, light fixtures, hanging trim, and installing doors on the
new pantry.
While all of this was going on inside, Kevin was ecstatic to
see his shop started. The house did not
have any outdoor storage area when we bought it so we knew we would have to do
something about that before we moved. We
decided that a shop would look good in the backyard.
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| Area for the shop before being cleared |
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| View from the shop to the back of the house |
Although we were not able to go anywhere for a vacation,
this remodeling staycation will always be memorable for what we got done at the
house. We were very eager to move in
after the week was over, but we had to wait on our kitchen to be finished.
Elizabeth
