Wow, I have been so busy the last few weeks, hence no post due to exhaustion. Lol!
The building is almost complete, believe it or not. In the craft/bedroom #2 all we like is trimming out the window (we almost forgot we had not done that yet) and inserting the pocket door.
In the kitchen we like the floor covering, appliances, light fixtures, and moulding. As a matter of fact, my floor guy, Ronnie, is going to install my flooring tomorrow. Yay!!!
In The closet, just like putting the shelving and hanging bars up.
The bathroom likes the toilet and tub. And the master bedroom likes the a/c, trimming it out, and the sliding barn door.
Oh and building shutters outside for the 2 windows.
Now let me tell you about the intense arguments that have arose in the last few weeks. The hubby has been on a real argumentative streak lately. I mean everything I mention, he wants to argue with me about it. When will he ever learn that I am always right is beyond me. This may seem a joke to you but so far I have been right on the money on every single thing. Yay me!!!
First, the cabinet dilemma...I really wanted my cabinets to look like old barn wood. I searched the internet until I found the technique that would result in that look but noooo... He knew how to do that because he looked at one thing on the internet. So we get what he thinks will work...any kind of latex paint and stain on top of that, leave it a minute and wipe it off. So he gets gray flat latex paint and ebony stain. He paints the wall cabinets one day while I am applying polyurethane to trim. The next morning he gives me the speech about putting the stain on waiting a little bit and then wipe it off. This is what it looked like:
Epic failure!!! So from then on he was mad. So I paint these again and dry brush some black paint on them. This was the second look:
Which wasn't bad until he puts polyurethane on them. Luckily I got up there before he got it on all of them. It was horrible. The poly took almost all the gray paint off. It looked like my 2 year old grandson had a paint brush. Lol!!
Now I just want them to look decent. So yesterday, I sent him after semi gloss gray paint and I painted them again along with the base cabinets. Today I rubbed stain over them and put a coat of poly on them and I love them.
So ends the cabinet craziness.
Problem #2 was the master bedroom walls. My vision for the side walls was 2-1x6 tongue and groove boards together turned on the flat side with a 1x4 tongue and groove board painted off white and sprayed with the stone texture to mimic mortar to produce a log cabin feel. Well, that's not what I got. I just got tired of arguing with him and this is what I got...for now anyway.
But I do love my stone wall.
He argued with me last night about a road sign and a sign on a storage building. So on the way home last night I stopped at the road sign, yes I was correct. Today on the way to Lowe,s I showed him the storage building sign; right again!!! When will he ever learn? Ha! Ha!
But I must tell you what a wonderful job he did in the bathroom. I love, love, love my bathroom. I finally found a cabinet I liked for my vanity, sanded, and polyurethaned it. He cut the drawers down, put the sink in, and the faucet.
Cabinet originally found at
The Rust-i-dime thrift store. (Outside of it minus the record player)
Inside of it.
This is what it looks like in my bathroom now
Yes that is a galvanized bucket as my sink and corrugated tin on the walls. I love it!!! Wait until you see my bathtub. He also put shelf insets on 2 of the walls.
See how beautiful everything looks when he listens and does it my way. :)
I love all the flooring. Both bedrooms have the same flooring, the bathroom and closet looks like rock, and the kitchen; I will show you after tomorrow.
That about wraps up the building progress to date.
Now...
Got Things To Do :)
