Finally Painting.....

My last blog post was about 2 months ago. Much has transpired since then including finishing our 1st year of homeschooling, Midland graduation, FFA state convention, our last rodeo until September, Jr week of camp, several weddings and funerals, VBS, Fourth of July celebration, Jr High week of camp, etc. There have been a few days since May 23 that we have been able to work on the house. We have however been able to accomplish much in the few days we have worked.

May 25 - Jeff came to help today and he and Sara were able to close in an old doorway on both sides and on one side of another doorway. Allie sanded then began painting the front wall of the house. Wyatt burned a wood pile, scraped paint off of boards that Jeff and Sara put up and helped Allie in painting the front wall of house. David, Slade and I did electrical work, demolition to a door from the pantry to the bathroom and the ceiling in the master bath. We also cut out a hole in the wooden counter top for the sink. We also put up bead board in pantry and in the mud room.
May 27 - David filled in the old door space between the pantry and the bathroom, finished the last bead board in the pantry, and put the last two bead boards in the mud room.
June 29 - Bryant helped us work on Wyatt's room putting in flooring, stairs to his raised bed, and storage area above the AC unit. The girls sanded their rooms.
June 1 - We built a frame for the kitchen island, stubbed out electrical and gas pipe, installed cypress exterior for the island, a plywood top and then the stainless steel top.
July 6 - Bryant helped David build a partial wall in upstairs stairs bathroom, put in insulation and plywood on outer wall in front part of upstairs bathroom, finish plywood on ceiling of upstairs storage closet and most of the wall, fill in last part of loft wall and ceiling. Sara and I put in lat boards for the dining room and kitchen ceiling. We worked together to put up almost half of the bead boards on the kitchen/dining room ceiling.
July 12 - Picked up the kids from CYE, cooked supper at the land and had help putting in three sheets of bead board in the kitchen/dining room.
July 13 - Kelle and Angela came and Allie and Wyatt helped them paint two coats on the front wall/porch of house, as high as they could reach on both sides and almost all of the back wall/porch. Sara helped them paint then helped me caulk and putty in the guest bathroom and mud room and I applied kiltz to 3/4 of the mudroom wall then sanded the bead board wall in the mud room. Sara and I also replaced missing boards around the dining room window. Bryant helped David put in walls and floor in back part of upstairs bathroom and finished installing bead board ceiling in the kitchen/dining room.

 

Building a kitchen

Despite having a little more work to do upstairs we have decided to begin working downstairs again.

April 23 - Allie cleaned up inside and sanded more of one wall in her room. David and Wyatt took turns mowing the grass. Then David and Wyatt helped Sara and I extend the hot wire further into the pasture.
April 27 - Put plywood on the ceiling of the front porch except for a few small pieces and put plywood on the ceiling on most of the back porch.
May 4 - Finished loft and balcony floor with pine tongue and groove boards and finished railing on balcony. Began scraping off contact paper from what will be the dining room wall.
May 10 - Installed Allie's floor, wired a light in the kitchen and dining room and connected electrical wiring for back porch fans. Scraped more of the contact paper from the wall.
May 17 - Checked electrical lines for washer and dryer, rerouted electrical line from laundry/mud room light to a new switch, rerouted a line for the refrigerator and dishwasher, ran a line for the kitchen backsplash outlets, installed wires for three lights over what will be the sink and put in a light switch. Began scraping paint off what will be the dining room wall.
May 18 - Put in insulation along kitchen wall, installed bead board plywood on kitchen wall and framed out and put bead board for the refrigerator cabinet. Drilled holes and put in pipes for sink drainage and water lines coming to sink, framed the kitchen cabinet. Put in plywood counter top and took measurements for stainless steel counter top. Scraped more paint off the dining room wall.
May 19 - Picked up and delivered more supplies and materials from Lowe's.
May 20 - Philip helped David put in a missing piece of plywood counter top, cut out the door spaces for the front of the cabinet, installed the front, reinforced the countertop, checked measurements for stainless steel countertop and measured and marked for sink cutout.
May 23 - David and I went to the house at 5:30 in the morning and connected the electrical lines for the AC units so that Troy can connect them and install thermostats. We will have AC to work in and just in time since summer time weather is here!!!

  

8 Months Into Our Remodeling....Let The Sanding Begin!!!!

Wow, we have been remodeling for 8 months and have gotten a tremendous amount of work done in spite of how busy our lives are at times. All of our major demo and building projects within the house are done. We still have lots of medium sized jobs and many small loose ends to tie up.......but for now the following is a run down of our accomplishments since mid March.

March 15 - Put up tongue and groove pine on Allie's angled back wall, ran additional wiring upstairs, and put up another sheet of plywood in the storage closet.
March 16 - Put up tongue and groove on front wall of living room and almost finished putting in plywood on the side wall in the loft.
March 17 - Today we worked on the tractor!!!!!
March 21 - Today we extended the hot wire fence toward the back of the pasture.
March 22 - Connected wiring for Sara's room, hall light switches, and loft. We ran remaining wires for the AC unit and put up insulation in the loft ceiling and in Sara's room.
March 29 - Took down scaffolding, put away tools and materials and cleaned up inside and outside at the house in Lebeau for the Easter Celebration!!
March 30 - Mowed the grass at the house, cleaned up, set up scaffolding and took out tools and materials.
April 5 - Finished putting tongue and groove on front wall in living room and on Sara's wall and ceiling. We also finished the two rows of tongue and groove on the flat ceiling in the living room that was started to put in the ceiling fans so that we could have a straight edge to measure from in order to begin putting in the pine on the angled wall/ceiling in the living room.
April 7 - Began putting in tongue and groove on the angled ceiling in the living room.
April 11 - Almost finished putting up tongue and groove on angled ceiling in living room.
April 12 - Finished angled ceiling and and almost finished flat ceiling in living room with tongue and groove.
April 13 - Took a much needed break this morning and relieved a little stress by shooting a couple of rounds with a 38, a 9 mm, a 380, and a 7 mm this morning for our concealed carry class. Finished putting up tongue and groove on the living room ceiling and almost finished with the north wall.
April 18 - Finished putting up tongue and groove on the north living room wall. Kids began sanding their bedroom walls.
April 19 - Finished putting tongue and groove on the small living room wall which is also the back wall of the pantry, kids did more sanding.
April 20 - Put in banister and railing on stairs and railing and some posts on balcony upstairs using cypress trees and limbs. More sanding!!!
April 22 - Cleaned up and burned scrap wood, cut some of the grass, cleaned up the rose bush, put in cypress tree as corner post for Wyatt's bed and worked on posts for railing upstairs.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We see the light!

We literally see the light because we have installed lights in several rooms. Yay!!!

Feb. 8 - Put up tongue and groove in Allie's room.
Feb. 10 - Finished third wall in Allie's room with tongue and groove and ran more wiring.
Feb. 15 - Began putting in temporary hot wire fence.
Feb. 16 and 17 - Put up more tongue and groove, put in plywood ceiling in Wyatt and Allie's room and connected wiring in Wyatt's room so that his outlets and light switch works.
Feb. 18 - Put up more tongue and groove, connected outlets and light switch in Allie's room, ran wiring in loft and then connected switch and installed lights. Also installed 3 drop down ceiling fan lights in the living room with 8 ft pipes. Had to use scaffolding and a ladder to install the ceiling fans and took about half a day.
Feb. 22 -  Built back wall in Wyatt's room.
Feb. 23 - Finished fence and moved horses to Lebeau. Built 2 walls in Sara's room.
Feb. 24 - Moved the bull and a few cows and calves to Lebeau. Built remaining outside wall upstairs on outside of storage room and bathroom and put up plywood on one wall of the storage room upstairs.
Mar. 1 - Put up remaining wall in Wyatt's room, began putting up tin on Wyatt's ceiling, finished Sara's third wall.
Mar. 3 - Plowed a plot in Lebeau so Sara and Wyatt could ride. Put up more plywood on 2nd wall in storage room, put in outlet boxes in upstairs bathroom.
Mar. 5 - Dropped off pallets in Lebeau and picked up wood from Lowe's.
Mar. 8 - Used pallets to create a temporary pen to hold the horses tonight for easier catching in the morning for the 1st rodeo of the new year with JDRC.
Mar. 10 - Spent about an hour finishing Allie's wall. Due to the lulling of the rain decided to stop for the day and take a nap before evening church service. Some things are just more important!