Projects

Being a homeowner is fun.... and extremely expensive!!! Just when you least expect it, something has to happen, in between all the home improvement projects.In July, our upstairs tub decided to start leaking into our foyer. Fortunately, it was a small do-it-yourself fix leak, but let me tell you, breaking into the foyer ceiling was a whole other ballpark! And, not something I saw coming. Brian ripped open the ceiling in a matter of minutes. It took until October for us to want to fix the hole. Little did we know that installing drywall is such a hassle- dust everywhere! The front foyer and hallway were quarantined for a couple of days. This pretty much makes me not want to have to drywall ever again.

Then, just the other day, our one and only old appliance decided it was done working. Plumbers are a bunch of fun! Thankfully, B's brother came through and found some nice guys who could install the new water heater, and they did a great job. But, what a mess and lots of stress.

And, the projects don't stop there. We built the custom massive toy shelf for the 'kids'. While we had it done a couple of weeks ago, we still needed to stain and polyurethane it.
This is the finished product, minus the wicker baskets to hide and sort all the toys away. Our basement smelled something awful for a couple of days, and little Ethan had to play upstairs and outside for the time being. It looks gorgeous though- Pottery Barn furniture makers would be proud.

On top of all of this, I'm no longer pregnant and feeling up to painting again, so I've started to tackle all the half-done rooms that I left off on. The biggest project is painting the basement/family room, but fortunately B had primed most of it while I was preggo so it cuts the work load down by tons.