Since I didn't do a post last month, I thought I would go ahead and do it now and then big you this months post in the next couple days or so. As per my usual excuse, we have been super busy and things get chaotic, one thing leads to another and I forget to post about the progress of the house. I thought that by this time I would be able to help more on the house but baby duties call and I only get to go over to help for a couple hours at a time.
I have however been able to complete a project of mine which was to create a wood wall out of pallets. I wish I could have taken pictures of the process. Basically, we cut the boards apart from about 5 pallets with a sawzall (because trying to pry them apart would break the boards). Then I would go through the stack of boards and find a couple that were the same width and nail them in a horizontal pattern to the studs. I continued to do this while staggering the boards all the way up the wall. All in all I think the wall turned out beautifully. I have seen similar walls that people have done which were stained but I like the rustic barn wood look so I just left them the way they were.
After my wall was complete my husband and his mother got started on the tile flooring. We decided to go with a wood grain print and lay them in a herringbone style. Below you can see my husband is the process of mudding the tiles to the floor.
From this project of remodeling the house, I have concluded that I am completely obsessed with wood grain. I have it on my walls, on my floors, and on my ceilings. We did manage to find a ceiling fan that looks like a wood log with blades coming out of it which went with our theme. Below is a picture of the finished living room with the walls and the floors completely done (although you can't see the tile floors in their full glory due to the dirt and dust covering them).
Remember that old dark kitchen we started out with?
Well we finally got the cabinets painted white to bright up that dark gloomy place! And we just installed them not to long ago.
We were going to add granite countertops but our budget wasn't allowing us to do so and since I love wood we decided to go with butcher block. Now my husband is bent on making everything himself so he took on the challenge of building the countertops. According to him it wasn't difficult at all. He took a couple 2x4s, cut them in half, and glued and nailed them together in a staggered pattern. Once the boards were dry he cut the countertops to size, gave them a good sanding, stained them to my specifications, and voila! I am very pleased with the outcome of them. I think they are extremely gorgeous.
If you are wondering what that thing is in the cabinet in the picture below, it's a vibrating chair that we put my son in when he comes with me to work on the house to keep him occupied and happy.
The next post will hopefully be a virtual tour of the finished house. I am so excited that all of this hard work will finally come to a close and we will be able to move into our "new" home. Until next time...
Steffane B.
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