Because the roof was finally finished, I was getting a little excited and got ahead of myself with what we were going to work on next. I know in my last post I said we would be able to work on sheet rock but I totally forgot about us having to move windows and doors and also building exterior walls in the baby's room.
So with the finishing of the roof, my husband and his brother got to work taking out the gigantic, over the top windows that took up the whole wall. They came out pretty easily but the exterior door that was in the room was another story.
If you look in the picture below, you can see an exterior door on the right hand side. That door obviously had to go. We couldn't have an exterior door in a baby's room! So Matthew took the door off the hinges and began taking out the door frame. One side wouldn't come out very easily however. So Matthew began beating on the frame with a hammer to get it out, little did he know that it was liquid nailed to a 4x4 that was bolted into the exterior concrete wall. With every hit of his hammer a crack went into the stucco on the outside of the exterior wall. Thank goodness my mother-in-law was outside and saw the damage Matthew was doing and yelled for him to stop. He ended up being able to get the frame off with a hatchet so he began to block in the empty space.
They worked up until 9pm to get as much done as they possibly could so that we didn't have a huge gaping hole in the wall but they could only finish so much and sadly we left the house with only half finished. But the next day was a new day and the boys began finishing what they had began the day before. Below is a picture of what one of the windows looked like before we began ripping them out.
And here is another picture of the building in process below. The window in on the right hand side of the picture was put in backwards if you were wondering because the boys just wanted something there to block the wind. The day they were working on the house we had a cold front come in and boy was it cold!
And the picture below here is of the walls pretty much finished. Of course now both windows are now in backwards but will hopefully be dealt with today.
Meanwhile, when Matthew didn't have the help of his brother he was working on installing exterior doors/cutting out a space for them. If you remember in the laundry room the window that was previously there, we decided it needed to become an exterior door.
So the window came out and a hole was cut for the new door to go in.
Not only did we need to do this in the laundry room but also in the living room at the front entrance. The window that was beside the front door as for some reason wider than the front door (which only measured something ridiculous like 30" or 32" when it needs to be at least 36"). So Matthew cut the window out into a doorway.
Here's a picture of my beautiful front door that we were able to get on clearance!
Matthew wasn't able to finish the front door because he ended up having to pour concrete. While the boys were busy doing their thing, I decided I could work on some "small" projects. I tried to rebuild the cabinets and was successful with the cabinet in the the back of the picture below (minus my crocked cuts). I wasn't very successful on the cabinet in the front of the picture however. You can see the space on the top of the cabinet that is supposed to be flush with the front of the cabinet. I really can't figure out where I measured wrong so I will have to figure it out while the boys are hard at work.
I also couldn't help myself and decided to go ahead and put one coat of paint on the cabinet door front. These had to be handled differently than normal cabinet fronts because they were made so long ago and the varnish had worn to a point that if you tried to sand it off it would gum up your sander. With some light rubbing of denatured alcohol, I was able get a lot of the gummy varnish off. I also had to use an oil-based primer to make sure the paint would hold.
I also got a new phone and was able to do a panoramic picture of the kitchen area. I didn't do it wonderfully (I think I was a little too close) so the wall with the cabinets and the "doorway" looking thing and the dark open area on the left are supposed to be one straight wall.
Until next time!
Steffane B.
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