The past 36 hours in photos...
Look at me, I'm vertical! Thank God. (And I have stains on my shirt. Typical.)
Very cautiously and slowly vertical, but vertical nonetheless and capable of refilling sippy cups and fetching more crackers. You know, the important stuff. Score.
Brothers and partners in Let's Finally Get Some Of These Doors Framed Out crime.
Fueled by coffee, of course.
Miss A inspects the final final final paint in her bathroom. She approved! PHEW.
With our venture into Trim Land, the air compressor and nail gun noise is picking up. Somebuddy isn't a fan, and can usually be found cowering in a corner of the kitchen.
And can I just say, the day we get some color besides oak and white in our kitchen will be a joyous one. #soboring
Rough-ins for the new shower fixtures and raised showerhead, done. Cement board, done. This guest bath is ready for tile. Wohoo!
Continual rearranging of A's furniture sometimes leaves the monitor in an odd place. This weekend...extreme close up.
The giant pile 'o tools in the balcony remains a favorite, albeit insanely closely supervised, playground. Just uploaded this photo and realized there's a staple gun right next to her leg. Such careful parenting!
Samples of carpet for the stairs. Another fun little playground. (Update on that later.)
Trim...looking...marvelous!
Door trim goes in before baseboards, then the base can butt right up against it. Everything must be in before carpet. In the tiled areas, you have to have the door trim in but wait to do the baseboard until after the tile install. The tops of our door trim is going to be a bit larger and decorative, so that will wait until later, as it's obviously not required before any flooring goes in. The timing of things...it makes your head spin.
Even with exposed nails and lack of a second coat of paint and caulk, just adding the trim makes such a visual difference. Especially door trim, as that empty space between the door jam and the drywall disappears (that you can still see on the still-trimless tops of the door frames). It immediately looks cleaner.
What will eventually be A's room, temporarily christened The Cutting Room.
They installed the (new, shiny ORB!) door hinges so that they can perfectly space the trim. It has to be offset just a smidge so that the hinge can move when the door opens without smacking into the trim. The new hardware, next to the creamy white trim and a couple of the wall colors (guest on left, hallway on right).
This is coming together nicely. Mama likey.
We forgot about the door frames on the outside of the main upstairs hallway - in the balcony areas right at the top of the stairs - when measuring for the trim. It's also getting new carpet, therefore, ack, we gotta get this trim done too!
So, we ran out, of course. N's out picking up more this afternoon. This area will be a funny two-tone mix of original wood trim and new white trim, original unpainted walls and brand new carpet, for a while. But oh well. Foyer painting is on our tentative schedule for later in '14, so hopefully it won't be long.
The unorganizedness continues to baffle.
(Hey, I think that's my wedding gown back there! Also, story: We ran out of diapers this morning, and as I was getting ready to run to the store, uncle R was all, "You have a ton of diapers stacked up in the office!" Ha. Diapers. Not to be confused with diaper *boxes* that are currently holding 95% of what A owns.)
Just keep breathing, Annie. Just keep breathing.
And keep cleaning up the still-organized kitchen. That seems to help.
Inching towards Done. Inching inching inching.
