Part... ten, is it?

Closet doors are UP!

Little cute doors above closets are UP!

Boys are moving in their "stuff" -- LOL

And a bonus pic...

Landon and Poppy!

a brief peek at part 9

The little doors above the closet, with their rope handle!  One last door to hang and then the moulding to hang. 

Molly has been rearranging and organizing the boys clothes drawers all morning! ROFLOL! 

Next:  Here come the beds!!  We can do that ourselves and then tomorrow Tony can do the doors and ceiling fans!

It's so close!

By way of explanation:  these doors were my idea (in case you wondered who would think of such a crazy and unorthodox thing -- lol).  I can't stand the idea of wasted space and I wanted us to have access to the storage space above the hanging rack!  So far, so good!

And it continues... part 8

So Daddy decided he would save himself a lot of steps if he removed the screen and climbed in and out of the window (cutting the crown moulding pieces)... 

How many little hineys fit in a window?  Let's count them... 1...2...3...4...

And from the 'front side' LOL

When you say "Smile Nehemiah" he gives you this cheesy grin!  He's so funny!

I love those four musketeers!  :D

Okay, where was I?  Oh yeah, the bedroom.  Here ya go!

View looking north, the north end of the room is almost done.  The nail holes in the crown moulding need to be set and puttied but that's all for that end except the closet door and ceiling fan!  Woohoo! 

Just waitin' on doors!

Remember the Dutch door the boys and I made?  Here it is!

Cheese!

Looking south.  Still just a bit of painting to do at the top of the closet so all the clothes got moved back out of that side. 

The Shoe Closet!  Yes, it's blue inside.  We were out of 'secluded garden' (the main wall color) but had plenty of ' something? rain' left (from the Boonesborough wall).

So we still have to finish the doors for the top of the closets (little hidey doors with rope handles!), hang about a third of the crown moulding, hang the ceiling fans, hang the closet doors.  Then we'll move the beds in.  The floor needs to be repaired by our trusty flooring friend but I haven't even talked to him about it yet -blush-

It's coming along!!  Tony took yesterday off and got a lot done.  Then he called right after lunch and said he was on his way home again to get the cuts made he needs for the moulding before the rain gets here!

I'll keep you posted!

the bedroom project part 7

notice the lack of caps... draw your own conclusions... LOL

Alrighty... what's new with this project? 

The ceiling is done...  it looks better in real life ;)

The "Boonesborough" wall has it's base coat (still needs some cutting in at the baseboard).

The exterior closet walls are almost done.

Today the boys and I made a Dutch door for their bedroom.  A Dutch door is also called a 'stable door'... isn't that fitting -- LOL

Sam and Luke got all the trim pieces painted.  Tony just got home so I'm going to see what he wants to get finished tonight. 

We did make a Lowe's trip last weekend and got all the rest of the supplies we will need, including ceiling fans (remind me to tell you that story -- our wonderful government....) and an area rug. 

I'm very excited to see all of the coming together. 

*MY* plan is for the room to be ready for the boys to move into this weekend.  The Boonesborough wall and the little boys beds won't be done but all the rest should be.  Oh and the insulated Roman shades won't be done yet either.  I have too many diapers to sew right now.  ;)

Newest Sewing Project

at my Dana Did It blog

The Bedroom Project - part 6

Tony (and the big boys) got the ceiling sheetrock up, mudded, taped and mudded. He'll sand it today.

Luke and I got half of the room painted it's first coat! All of the trim will be white.

It's coming along!!!

The sunlight is so bright the color is not showing well.  Let me try again to show the color.  It's a very pretty color, I promise!

Caleb and Sam  have plaid comforters that they have had for years and they really love them.  They wanted to pick a color where they could still use these comforters.  The sunlight reflects differently off the wall than it does the fabric -- trust me, they match ;)

I'm going to make duvet covers for the comforters for the other twin beds in that reddish/cranberry color.  And I'll make quilts from the plaid fabric and the cranberry for the toddler bunks :)  We have sheets in the plaid that I'll use to make insulated Roman shades for all four windows.  Well, for two at least... I'm pondering a different idea for the double window since it will be on the little boys side of the room! 

My first attempts at free motion quilting

Is that what it's called? I called it 'squiggle sewing' LOL

It's a gift set for Ben and RuthAnn from our church:

My first ever table runner:

RuthAnn said she wanted coffee-themed stuff for her kitchen :)

The Bedroom Project - Part 5

Do you remember earlier I mentioned "The Wall"?  Here are some shots of it.

Couldn't get the whole wall in one shot --  you'll have to use your imagination :)

They really loved this wall and seriously debated whether to paint over it or not.  Two sons (who shall remain unnamed) really didn't want to repaint it but finally decided that it would be better to paint it... :)

The little boys wanted to paint so badly... here they are applying primer.

What fun!

So last night while the girls and Nehemiah and Joey and I were at the ladies supper at church Tony and the big boys primed half of the room.  I think Luke did most of the priming while the others were removing the sheetrock at the closet ceilings and working on the new supports for the ceiling.

And Tony removed the sheetrock from the ceilings of what were the closets.

Wanna guess what his project is for tonight while the girls and N and I are at a bridal shower?  :)

The Bedroom Project ~ Part 4

My guy is quite a guy!!

First Tony framed up this new closet for the boys.  The closet Caleb built is to the right, behind the melon door, see it?  It's the shoe closet. 

This closet is for all their clothing, dress up totes and the top of the top rack is for sleeping bags and misc stuff that boys seem to accumulate.  ;)

First Tony had to hang all the shelving because it wouldn't fit in the doorways after the front was framed up. 

Then he framed the front of the closet.  That makes it sound so simple.  Let me rephrase... he Framed The Closet!  I think he/we reworked the plan about four times.  See we already had that existing bit of wall to the right beside the shoe closet to contend with.  We are trying to make everything equal and look like it was originally that way.  It took a lot of planning, figuring, measuring, replanning... Then you must remember that this concrete is 35 years old and very cured.  Very hard.  I think he went through a drill bit every two holes.  It was a LOT of work.  And he smashed his finger.  The same finger he bumped with the saws all.  :(  Very icky.  Oh and then he got a couple of splinters in that same finger!!  Remodeling is dangerous stuff!

See?!  A nice big closet, I think it's nearly 12 feet wide.  This closet will have louvered bifold doors as will the shoe closet.

Now the other part that my Super Guy did I don't have pictures of.  He moved a receptacle from the demolished wall to a new wall.  He moved the light fixture over so it was centered with the light fixture in the other room.  He hung a light in the closet and moved that light switch over to a double gang box (I think that's what he said?).  He and Luke spend a couple of very squished, itchy, cold hours up in the attic getting everything wired and rewired.  Tony even figured out how to use the existing electric to branch off and make a switch for the closet light and get it in place!

We now have all the electric stuff   D-O-N-E!  He never ceases to amaze me.

And now he has decided that he doesn't like my 'make do' idea with the ceiling and he is removing the sheetrock and doing it the right way :)  It's gonna be so purty!!

The boys are cleaning up the tools and Molly is prepping the walls for painting.  We are so excited, it's all coming together so well!!

The Bedroom Project ~ Part 3

So Tony had off last week Th-Mo.  Everything we did took at least five times longer than we though it would.  Typical, right? LOL

The first thing we had to do was find places to put stuff.  I'm telling you... we have stuff everywhere.  There's a twin bed in the living room, there's a love seat and stacks of totes of dress up clothes in the dining room, there are dressers in the hallway, there's a load of stuff in the storage building, there's a dresser in the bathroom... I'm not kidding!

Here we go... our work days in order...

Caleb built a closet!  This was his first 'start to finish' framing job he did all by himself!  He did a great job.  Let me try to explain.  Our hallway is like a capital "T", the left end of the T going into our bedroom and the right end of the T going into was was the boys dressing room.  Caleb framed up that opening and made a closet.  So now the hallway looks like a "7".  Make sense? 

I am always amazed to watch Caleb work.  He is so strong.  He did a great job with all the measuring and cutting.  And those of you who know our home will not be surprised to hear that the walls where not square so it made for some interesting cutting!

The finished framed wall.

He's making a silly face at his sister -- imagine that!

We used a piece of the paneling that we removed from the dressing room for this wall.  A wonderful (haha) side result is that the yellow paint we had left over from when we painted originally has gone bad!  LOL  So we had to get more paint.  However, it didn't seem to make sense (cents) to me to buy a whole gallon of paint for that one section when I really want to repaint over all the yellow anyway.  So we bought a lovely 'hopsack' color and will repaint the entire hallway (which will eventually lead into painting the living room too!  woohoo!!!)

I can't find the last picture.  We recycled paneling from when we removed the living room/dining room wall (when we first moved in five years ago) to use in the inside of the closet.  It will all be painted white eventually!

Part 3 coming soon!

Lest you think I am ignoring you...

there's really nothing new to report on the Project.  We've done more removing of doorframes, etc... patched one of the closet walls ... moved furniture out to have more space to work... painted one of the walls the color the boys selected to see if we like it...

Tonight we make The Big Run to Lowe's for supplies.  Tony has Th/Fr/Sa/Mo off so I anticipate getting a LOT done in those four days.  I am a Task Master.  I have a List.  And I'm not afraid to use it.  Beware.  LOL

Girls Room ~ BEFORE

Again, this was not the most recent arrangement of the room but you get the basic idea.  The beds are no longer bunked and will not be in their new room.  They are also going with a whole different color scheme... either blue/yellow, green/brown, or blue/brown.  Decisions, decisions, decisions... :)

The Boys Room ~ BEFORE

I didn't take Before pictures but here are some I found on the computer.  Their room is arranged differently now but you can see the basic idea and the wierd cinnamon color of the furniture.  They have four dressers that are from the same collection.