Guest Bathroom Update!

We are FINALLY almost done with the upstairs guest bathroom. Today my dad finished installing the sink faucet and the tub/shower faucet. We also hung the new blinds and put the door back up. All we have left to do is some touch-up painting, caulking around the bathtub, and hang the new mirror!

We also finally had a break in the rain this afternoon and started pressure washing the driveway. The results are amazing! You never really realize how dirty something like that is until you start to pressure wash it.

Lastly, we're having a some water issues in our garage from all of this rain. We knew there had been some water problems when we first bought the house, but we thought we had fixed those. However, with all of the rain we've had the past two days...we've realized we haven't fixed the problem completely. We're hoping the "puddle" doesn't grow too much more.

Here are some pictures from today!

Tub 99% done...just needs to be caulked.

New vanity, countertop, faucet, and toilet

Before and After from pressure washing (driveway)

"Puddle" in our garage :(

Our "New" Deck!

Well...not exactly new...but it'll look new when we are done with it. We borrowed a pressure washer and have finished about half of our deck. It is amazing what pressuring washing does. The deck looks sooo much better and we haven't even stained it yet :) We're hoping to do the same thing to the fence (minus the staining...we'll do that next year) and I hope to clean off the driveway. I've posted some pictures below.

Tom finished the tiling in the upstairs guest bathroom. It looks great! I think it looks pretty good for us having never done this before :) I've also posted some pictures of this below.

We still have quite a bit to do before our open house and we hope to get a lot of this done this week and next weekend. Wish us luck!

Here are some pictures:

Before

After

Before and After


Before

After

Tiling Done!

Done!

Basement Bathroom

We are getting close to being finished with the basement bathroom. We got the new vanity and counter top installed last week. However, to finish the bathroom we need to find a mirror that we like and a new faucet. After we get those, we can put up the backsplash, sidesplash, and top trim work for the beadboard.

Other than that, we're coming along on the unpacking part of things. :)

Here is a picture of the new vanity in the basement bathroom:

It's Not Over Yet!

First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who came out on Saturday and helped us move!! We really really appreciate you guys helping us out!

As for our house....we're still not done yet! I'm not able to update our blog as often (at least until we have our internet hooked up a week from today), but I'm going to continue blogging for a while. Besides all of our unpacking that we're doing, we've been able to get our two end tables put together, our sofa table assembled, and all of our bedroom furniture put together and placed in its place. My dad also got both of our new bathroom faucets installed today (I'll post pictures soon).

Lastly, we have tentatively set the date of our open house...so mark your calendars for Sunday, October 4th from 2-5pm. We'll have appetizers and drinks :) Please feel free to drop in and out as you can.

-Laura :)

T-Minus 2 Days....

...until we move! AHHH! We still have so much to do....so I have come to the realization that it just won't all get done...and that's okay!

Today we worked on getting the remaining new light fixtures installed. None of them were easy and almost all of them gave us some problem of some sort. We only have two ceiling fans to install tomorrow and then we'll be done with all the lighting (except for the kitchen nook...which we're still debating over which light to go with).

Oh...and we also got our new dishwasher installed today! We now have a completely functioning kitchen again!

Tomorrow is going to be busy (but then again...when are we not busy). Not only do we want to finish up a few things at the house...but we also have to finish packing at my parents house.

Here are a few pics from today!

Our new dishwasher

New lighting above the kitchen sink

Entry lighting

New lighting in the basement bathroom (I ran out of bulbs...hence the reason only two lights look lit)

Pretty sunset in front of our house (too bad the power lines are there)

We're Almost There!!!

I can't believe how fast this week is going by. We only have two more days to work on the house until we will be moving in. Today, we pretty much finished the kitchen. All we have left to do in there is install the lighting above the sink and above the eat-in kitchen area and have the new dishwasher installed (which will happen tomorrow between 11-2). I love our new kitchen. I can't believe how much different it looks.

Tom is still working hard at getting the tile finished in the upstairs guest bath. It is a very tedious process and he hopes to be done with everything but the grout before we move in on Saturday.

My mom and I got all of the remaining shelving put up in the closets and the laundry room. I can start moving stuff in :)

Tomorrow is lighting day :) We hope to get all of the remaining new light fixtures installed around the house.

Here are pictures from today.

Before

After!!

Before

After!!

Flooring...DONE!

I am happy to finally say that ALL of our flooring is done!! The rooms that we tiled....done...the carpet...done....and the hardwood...done :) What a difference it has made. The house finally looks like it can be moved into (which is great seeing that we move in 4 days!).

We still have a lot to accomplish this week including installing the last two kitchen counter tops, exchanging more light fixtures, installing the two bathroom vanities, finish tiling the bathtub surround and much more. I hope we can get this all done :)

Here are some pictures of the finished hardwood!