You Can All Sleep Tight Now!

I know everyone who reads this blog was losing sleep over our shortage of cabinet pulls.  You can all rest well now knowing that I was able to find them at another Lowe's!  I was also able to find clearance winter coats for Ben and Tom for next year.  Why?  Because this other Lowe's is next to an Old Navy!  Yeah!

WooHoo! James Had a Day Off!

James had today off!  It felt like a 2 week vacation!  Now that the hustle and bustle of the holidays are over, we are ready to take charge of our home again!  We can get this done!

Ben is helping Daddy wire up some electrical switches!

You can't tell in this picture, but half of this wall is in perfect condition and ready for primer and paint.  The other half is not.  I've been slaving away trying to get the walls in as perfect condition as possible.  It's time consuming and there isn't much to show for it!

This was our surprise home improvement of the day!  I had a $10 off $50 purchase coupon for Lowe's that expired today.  I honestly think of these coupons as cash, because we actually need things at Lowe's.  Lots of things.  So we dashed on over because I knew I was going to buy a gallon of paint, but what to spend $30 on?  Well we found great cabinet pulls on clearance!  So we snatched those up.  Unfortunately, we both calculated a total of 16 pulls needed, but after installing about 10 at home, we realized we are 2 short.  And since there were only 16 left of this particular kind, we can't go back to our Lowe's.  So I'll be searching area Lowe's the next few days.  If I can't find them, I'll be recruiting friends and family in other parts of the country to look for this particular pull for us!  Sometimes it's hard for us to do basic things like count, but James got all the pulls installed in about 20 minutes!  Way to go James!

Patching Away!

James has been working. A lot. Actually, the only day off since the last post (Dec. 4th) was Christmas! The poor guy! The last thing on his mind is fixing the house. So I've been patching and repairing the kitchen walls so I can paint. I'm almost there. I've been stuck up to my elbows in Joint Compound. I kind of understand why there has been panelling and wallpaper on these walls now! But I'm determined to make them look half way decent. I think I'm doing an okay job. I'm hoping to finish the last of the repair work today and prime away the next day or two. Then I can throw up some paint. And take pictures.

More Kitchen Stuff!

We're putting Wainscoating in the kitchen as a backsplash and also using it to cover up the beadboard. We're just too lazy to try to clean up the beadboard that was original to the house.

Tom getting into mischief.

James working away!

He looks so professional sometimes.