We continue to work on the house off and on, but I haven't done an update in a while because it has just been little stuff here and there. Today, however, was different and deserved to be posted. We finally got our shower door installed for our steam shower! We still have to hook up the steam unit and seal the tile and the glass, so we won't be using it quite yet. I figured that we've waited over a year to shower in the master bathroom, what's a couple more days?
We can remove the blue tape after the silicon dries, which takes about 24 hours.
We also purchased blinds for our master bedroom and bathroom. The blinds are cordless and for in the actual bedroom we got room darkening shades. Shades up...
Shades down...
Quite a while ago, we put mantles up on both fireplaces. They are made of the blue pine beetle and then stained. We then made a railing, so that when our nieces came to visit they didn't run over the edge to the right of the fireplace and fall down the stairs. As nice as it was for our nieces, Mocha doesn't think too highly of it because now she can't look downstairs at us as easily. We also brought our rug out of storage and soon we will have a big leather sectional couch with it. The couch was on back order, so hopefully by the middle of March, we will actually have a place to sit upstairs!
We searched and searched for dining room tables that we liked and that were big enough for our dining room, but had no luck. So, recently we purchased more blue pine beetle to make one big dining room table. The slab in the top of the picture will be used to make the legs and we will join the bottom two together for the actual table top.
The two pieces for the actual table top
The end of summer/fall, we did a lot of work to the garage so we could park our vehicles in there for the winter. We taped, textured, and painted the walls and ceilings; installed the garage door openers; made cabinets; epoxied the floor (it's really dirty right now, but it's a white epoxy with red, black, and silver flakes); and more recently hung up some peg board. This picture is just one section of three. We still have work to do out there as we want to cover the cabinets with laminate. We still have to tape, texture, paint, and epoxy the third garage bay as well.
In the Jack and Jill bathroom, we installed a mirror and put a tile border around it that matches the floor tile.
We also started installing crown moulding in the dining room.
Here's the mantle on the downstairs fireplace
The newest addition to the "man cave" was a dart board. We made our own frame out of leftover hardwood and trim.
We have also started hanging up a few more decorations. Now hanging by the bar are coasters from several breweries across the United States and some overseas.
Not sure why this picture got out of order, but here's the shower door again and the non-room darkening shades.
It's funny as I started writing this blog, I was feeling like we have accomplished so much, but the more I wrote, the more I found things that still needed to be done! Stay tuned as we continue on all the little projects we still have yet to complete...
