Week 3 of Renovations

This week we really kicked it in gear with the help of my mom. She is a miracle worker I swear and came to the rescue when we had really reached our low with home improvements. With her help we accomplished painting the kitchen/dining area/living room. She also helped paint all the woodwork trim and doors down our hallway. We also were able to paint our huge back closet and organized the crazy backroom where the movers put all of our boxes.

Living Room/Kitchen Before







Back Closet Before



We did have some hardships painting the kitchen/dining area/living room and got off to a rough start. It seems to me that my mom after painting her whole bedroom and master bath forgot some of the basics of paining. For example, once you have painted the ceiling you need to be careful when you are trimming the walls not to get paint on the ceiling. Unfortunately, for her she learned this at the end of painting all the way around the room and had to go back the next day and fix this mistake. She also had a hard time painting the right color on the right part of the wall. We had decided to paint our kitchen a nice sage green and the ceiling a yellow/whitish. She was in charge of trimming and was painting away with the green and I looked up to discover that she was starting to trim in the ceiling with the green even though the ceiling was completely already painted the right color and that color was not green. Needless to say, it was lucky I caught her early on in the process and only a small portion had to be covered up. I blame it all on her giving up drinking wine while she was visiting.

The Workers











Painting Back Closet

Kitchen/Living Room After







Even with our little setbacks it was sooo nice to have her here and be able to celebrate Mother’s Day with her. This was really great since we haven’t been able to celebrate Mother's Day with her in the flesh for the past 3 years. Thanks so much for your help mom you totally helped make our home finally feel like home to us!! I am sorry for all your battle wounds you received while you were here. Did we ever get a total count on the number of bruises?


Matt's mother's day present - It isn't mother's day if there isn't rock invovled



In the midst of the painting we discovered that the dryer was taking three times the amount of time it should to dry things. Cory went into our crawl space below the house and discovered that our dryer piping goes under the house and below our guest bedroom and out the side of the house (probably 15 to 20 feet of piping) instead of it going five feet to the right of the dryer and out the furnace room. Cory took apart all the piping and found that each pipe was half full of lint. Can you say Fire Hazard! Cory spent most of Saturday afternoon trying to get new piping and when that failed he resorted to having to clean out the old pipe by blasting them with water. Now, after the whole fiasco I can say that our dryer works much better and I feel safer. We will hopefully be fixing the dryer vent soon though and having it go out the furnace room.