Projects Completed

Throughout the fall and winter, we have slowly been completing the projects that we started this summer.  Sorry if some of these things have already been posted.  I couldn’t remember if I posted pictures or comments or both as the projects got done.

The front door is completely finished (sometime in October).  I painted it while David and the girls were gone for a few days.  David hung the screen door sometime after that.  It is so nice to have a door that doesn’t have a cold breeze coming through it when a northwest wind blows.  The door also clears the inside floor when it is opened so we can have a rug in front of it.

It is hard to tell from this picture, but the inside of the door is a dark red.

The outside of the door is a dark blue, and the screen door is cream.  The dark blue matches the shutters on the windows and the cream matches the trim (or will once the outside of the house is repainted).

This fall, we also painted our bedroom and master bathroom, except for the wall that where the window was replaced in the bathroom.  After David finished off all of the interior sheet rock and mudding, we finally painted it and hung blinds and curtains.

The wall is no longer a mixture of maroon paint and white primer.  Yeah!

A few weeks ago, I finally decided what colors I wanted to paint the kitchen and the bathroom on the main floor.  When we were in RC last week, we picked up the paint; that way, we can paint those areas whenever we have time.  The kitchen needed to be painted, especially where we replaced the window (same with the bathroom).  If we were going to paint any of these remodeled walls, the whole room would need to be painted to match the new color.  Yesterday when David woke up, he decided it was time to paint the area in the kitchen affected by the new window.

This area is actually above the basement stairs which made it difficult to paint.  Previously the wall was a medium tone tan.  Now it is a dark gray.  Unfortunately, we don’t have time to paint the rest of the kitchen; but at least we have the wall that was half primed and half painted tan covered with new gray paint.  I guess some other weekend, we will wake up and decide to tackle the rest of it.

We have not started to paint the main floor bathroom either, but it will get done some day.  At least we have the paint on hand to get them completed when we find the time.  It feels good to have fresh paint in most of the house.  The kitchen and bathroom are the only rooms in the house that we haven’t painted.