Fast and Fantastic!

Hey followers long time, very sorry about the delay but my dad has been crazy busy working on their house and WOW! Have they made some major progress, the work they are doing in the kitchen is amazing!!

But I was able to steal him for about 2 hours this weekend and I am still amazing at how much we were able to get done in such a short time!

We took advantage of the amazing weather and moved all my stuff out of the storage unit, only took 2 loads! But that was my coach, washer, dryer, 2 arm chairs and a bunch of boxes.
Moving some furniture really make the house start to feel like a home, nothing is in its place but at least we have somewhere to sit now. Also one of the boxes had glasses so I was able to enjoy a nice glass of water!

There is a look at part of the mess

After moving so stuff my dad hooked up my washer and dryer, like I said they are not in place but at least there is an idea...

The shelf is starting to show just a few of my coupon spoils, that was only a few I have added more since, won't need to purchase laundry detergent for a while. Remember all of those were under $2, some were FREE!!

Last my dad was able to add the wall cabinets to the kitchen walls!

He will be making some knick knack shelf's to go on the side (that will butt up to the window)

But I think it looks GREAT!! Just need to do some paint touch up.

Still a lot of finishing work to be done but we are really making progress and I am so pumped about it!!

Sorry

Hello again, sorry there has been no exciting postings but I have not worked on my house since the last post. I was feeling bad hogging all my dad's time at my house while their house was being neglected. So I gave them a few weeks to get some projects going and WOW have they made some awesome changes.
But I am feeling antsy and want to get some stuff moving on my place again. I think with a couple finishing projects we can get the kitchen to a place where I can start cleaning the cabinets and putting my stuff in them.
So excited about personalizing and making the house really mine.
I feel like there is so much just waiting for me but there is nothing i can really do until other stuff is finished. Also most of the stuff for me to move into the house is in storage and I don't have access to that, and still would need my big strong dad to help lift, oh and of course his truck haha.
So basically again my dad is the glue that holds the whole thing together!
But I really hope that this coming weekend I am able to get some work done on the house and will have updates and photos to share.
 

Lights... Trim... Range...OH MY (and some paint!)

Another less intense weekend. I think we are all just so drained, we have been working on one house or another since November and when you only have weekends to work on it you really work has hard as you can to get maximum impact. So we went full speed, sun up to sun down for 3 months and now we are all just out of steam.
That being said we still got a lot done. Saturday Dad spent most of his time at their house and got some amazing work done. Pinterest inspired banquets in the kitchen look amazing, and mom found some great fabric for the curtains! Good thing we have friends that sew!
I was at my place putting the last coat of stain on the cabinet back board and painting the kitchen. I still need to do another coat but I am liking the color, its very hard to describe and I don't feel the photo does it justice but I like it non the less.
this is a sample of it

its a very olive green

We also got the trim put up and the lights over the kitchen sink installed.
of course I got the wrong light bulbs and have to stop and get the right ones on my way home tonight but at least we know they work and WOW is it awesome! Provides great light to the dining room and you can see what your washing!

And finally after much waiting and excitement we moved the new stove/range/over whatever you prefer to call it. Remember its been sitting in the garage for weeks in its box so I was dying to open it and get it set up.
So we moved it in and I still love it!
So excited to get cooking and baking on it

The kitchen is really coming together, and for only a few hours of work we got a lot done!
Then we went home to sit and watch the Superbowl... mom made some amazing pulled pork in the crock pot, paired with a cold beer it was the perfect end to the day!

It's the little things...

Well I got a couple of the little add on things for the house like awesome curtains for the dining room. I was not planning on getting these for a while but when Target had them for $5 I had to snatch them up!
They are not solid so it will still let some light in but will also hide the blinds

Also at Target they had a cute valentines wreath and I have been wanting to put something on my front door for a while so I grabbed this. Sadly where it falls on the door you can't really see it because of the screen, and its on the small side, but at least its something, only room for improvement on the wreath front right? ha!

Also while out shopping I took advantage of the Menards mail in rebate program. Back on Black Friday I got some solar powered lights for the walkway and a sweet stockpile with steamer drain inside. So I mailed in my rebates and the mailman brought me a "in store credit" for $25 so I took that and got all my cabinet pulls for the kitchen. They are not installed yet but here is a sneak peak...

I LOVE swirls so these are perfect for me!! Can't wait to get them put on!

Laundry closet to Laundry ROOM!!!

So the part I didn't post yesterday because my mom hadn't seen it in person and I wanted to wait for her to see it before the pictures was the amazing transformation of a boring Laundry Closet into an amazing Laundry room!!
Before the laundry was just attached to the living room and was just a closet

So I painted it teal so it would rock with the white appliances

But this weekend Dad the put up a wall and now its a Laundry room!!

I will have my entertainment center against this new wall.

On the inside of the laundry room we are putting a large counter and hanging rod so I will have lots of space to fold/ hang to dry.

(not finished yet)

This will also serve as a pantry so I am putting a large shelving unit for my coupon steals and possibly the left over wall cabinets from the kitchen... undecided on that.

And someday I will put a track light over the counter... but for now a lamp.

Sink!!!

This weekend was madness! Saturday my dad was able to focus on my parents house and the work there so I was able to be a slacker (much needed!!) I caught up on tv while I did laundry and other fun house keeping activities. Then I went to my house where I have been applying wood stain and varnish to the trim work. Which I  think looks amazing. I have to say I have no idea you were to sand them and after I learned that WOW!!

The super bowl might be next Sunday , but this weekend was SUPER, in the crazy amount of work we got done! The plan was a sink...
Before the sink we put the sponge/ring holder's in the fake drawer under the sink. So much easier to apply when the top was open and there was no sink in the way.

Of course it took longer than expected. But better to start with a sink hole that is smaller than the sink and slowly get bigger with the hole cause you can not grow the sink...
So after several hole expanding cuts the sink fit!!

And more important we were able to salvage the new facet they had just put in the old kitchen so that's a nice savings! And its a nice facet!
I did tell my dad the warm was on correctly while he was hooking up the plumbing several hours later I realized I had them backwards so I used my muscles and was able to switch the flew tubing all by myself! Yeah add plummer to my resume!!
Also I was able to snag a major find at Target!! They had their curtains on clearance!! So I picked up some to finally rid myself of the terrible lace ones. The lace had to go for several reasons... for example I am not 60, you can see through them and quiet frankly I hate them. so good bye lace hello privacy curtains
 Before

After

Hey look at that...

From day one I have wanted to get rid of this stupid ugly microwave cabinet that was left behind, I just felt it looked terrible and really chopped up the room.

So I wanted to add a counter top and cabinets. Regular base cabinets are to deep so I got wall cabinets and my dad built a frame then we added a counter and I think it looks GREAT!!

of course the bottom still needs the toe kick and I need to add the filler on the side.
My new microwave will go on the wall above this