future dining room

This room will be our dining room one day. Over the weekend we set up/cleaned up and rebuilt one of the windows. That's the shop in the background. I can't wait to refinish the floors and walls in here. We don't really use this space yet, so we don't have any of our outlets or fixtures in. During the day plenty of sunlight streams in through the 2 big windows.

bedroom happy place :) and our (temporary) closet

This is our bedroom.

We're happy to have the electrical working and our ceiling fan installed.

We love to see the sunlight shining in on the old wood floors.

This is our bed! We found it on craigslist and it matches our other furniture just right.

Our dresser works great... thanks mom and Danny!

Look at the contrast from a refinished room into the unfinished breezeway.

Jed built us this temporary closet. Leanna thinks it's amazing.

Our bedroom is a little haven in this house. We had to make one room livable for starters. It gives us a glimmer of hope for the rest of the project. The breezy summer nights in this room have been incredible.

tool time!

This post is dedicated to Leanna's dad and Joanna for giving us so many of their home construction tools!!!! This summer we flew into San Diego, rented a moving truck, and filled it up with some tools from their storage unit.

The tools are now home safe in our "shop" (future kitchen). They are the best and have been making this project possible! Thanks so much Dad and Jo!

Bedroom Makeover!

This bedroom has been one of our main projects over the past month or so. It has undergone a major transformation! We had a lot of fun with this. We're almost done.Check out our progress and the series of events it took to get our room ready.

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After we tore the down the closet, all the wall paper, and layers of fake flooring out, we were left with raw wood walls and floors (with a LOT of little nails in them!).

One of the first thing we had to do was take out the thousands of little nails that once held the wall paper in place. It took about 10 solid days of de-nailing to finish this step!!!

Once the nails were out, we began caulking every gap in between the boards and around the edges of the room. (Thanks for the help Theo! We love you!)

Along with the caulking we began to put wood putty over all the nail holes and little (and not so little) imperfections in the wood. Mom, Peter, and Theo were awesome helpers!

Leanna focused on her wood putty work :)

Then we began sanding the walls down...

Notice how many nail holes were filled! (That's how many nails we took out or drove in!)

Honey sweetened ice tea... fuel for a work day :)

Woo hoo! De-nailing, caulk, wood putty, and sanding finished! Here we are- happy, hot, and exhausted!

Now it was time to prime.

Cynthia came out to help!

Jed painted a message :) I love you too Jeddy!
Once the primer was on the painting began. This was really fun... the room was finally coming to life!

The room is now finally painted! Pictures don't do it justice, but it is so beautiful in here now. We went with 3 shades of green for the ceiling, walls, and trim and brown paint on the window pains.

A job well done... I'll post more pictures once our room is all set up too. Thanks for looking!

Getting things done!

This was a productive week for us! Not only did Jed, Paul, & the team finish the roof, but Leanna's dad (Wil) and step mom (Joanna) came out and wired up our entire house!!! The electrical looks great! Thank you SO MUCH!!! Meanwhile, Leanna fixed and cleaned up old broken windows and began the tedious task of pulling nails out of the walls of our future bedroom (more on that later).

We worked hard and the heat and humidity were intense, but at the end of each day we found ways to unwind - enjoying cold brews, home cooked goods, and feasting on Mama Kerrie's world famous apple pies. THANK YOU EVERYONE for all your help!!!! Love you guys!!!

Here are some pictures... enjoy :)

Leanna went out and bought replacement glass for all of the broken panes (there were about 12 that were completely broken) and installed them into our windows.

We're going to use the original windows for a while. We like the weight pully system and the old wood frames.

We fixed the calk around each of the window panes... it went from being old and crusty...

to brilliant white and new

Our front door is pretty awesome... we were surprised at how beautiful the glass was once we cleaned it up!!

Chillin and drinkin smoothies... This was a satisfying week of work!