How we spent New Years Eve.

      We spent the another full day at the Project House. Michelle spent the day putting a second coat of paint on the dining room and the Kitchen. She also put the first coat of paint on the bathroom. I spent the day putting up baseboard and trim around doorways. We seemed to stay out of each others way in such a small house and got a lot accomplished!

Christmas is done, back to the project!

     We have had two good work days at the project house. We painted ceilings yesterday, Michelle didn't like how the bathroom and kitchen ceilings looked, as some of the seams weren't exactly perfect. . She ended up mixing the ceiling paint and with joint compound and used a texture roller on the ceiling. We now have textured ceilings that look great and now all the ceilings are textured. We were also able to get a coat of paint on the living room walls.
     While were at Lowe's yesterday getting more ceiling paint we were looking at the unfinished  cabinets  and the clerk informed us that all the cabinets were 20 percent off right now, so we ended up buying all the kitchen cabinets today. It took three trips  to Lowe's to get them all to the house. The first picture shows the base cabinets. The middle cabinet sticks out as we  were not able to put it all the way back against the wall as the plumbing is coming up through floor there. We ended moving all these cabinets into the spare room  with the upper cabinets. We got the first coat of paint in the kitchen and dining room and a second coat of paint on the living room.
      Tonight we ended up going back over to the house as we forgot to bring home a couple of paint brushes that needed to be cleaned. I ended up getting the car stuck in the snow in the driveway. We ended going over to the neighbors and asking him if he could pull us out with his truck. He got us out, so luckily didn't have to spend the night in Leavittsburg. It has been a long day, we are not going over there tomorrow. We will go back at it on Monday!
   

Todays surprise.

     This morning I went over to the project house to do a little painting. I was going to go in the afternoon as we were supposed to get a lot snow in the morning, but I woke to just a trace of snow on the ground, so thought I better go before it really started snowing. When I pulled into the driveway I noticed a set of tire tracks in the snow in the driveway. That got me wondering who had been there. I also noticed a lot of branches and pieces of bark around the yard and on the roof. I walked around the house and discovered that one of neighbors trees had broken off at about the level of our roof, I also noticed the neighbors truck was full of tree limbs and branches. Well might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I figured out who was in the driveway.

       Michelle and I have been discussing these trees since the first day we started the project. The first concern was how close they were to the house, the second concern is that all the trees are dying, the third concern was that the neighbor would claim that they were are trees. The one other problem we had was these neighbors are not the most friendly people I have ever come across. We have been working there for nine months and we have been pretty much ignored. We knew the trees would have to be discussed we just didn't want to start a war over them. Well that all changed when we discovered that the tree had landed on the roof. With the neighbor over cleaning up everything pretty much let us know he owned the trees.
       I went ahead with my painting and kept Michelle updated on what was going on through text messages and pictures on my phone. She was getting pretty worried and madder by the minute and ended up coming home from work early. She held the ladder as I ended up going on the roof to check for damage. There was no real damage to the roof, one gutter was dented a bit and there was a gash in one of the posts on the front deck. We can fix the gutter and the post,  the problem is the 4 other trees. We went over to the neighbors house and knocked on the door, no one was home. Left a note with our names and phone numbers and that we needed to talk about the trees. To make a pretty long story shorter he has agreed to have someone come out and top out the trees. It looks like it is going to turn out fine.
    
     

Todays work.

It has been a couple of weeks since I have posted on here, it isn't that we haven't done a lot of work, it just doesn't  look like we have done much if you take a picture of it. Today the plan was to hang both bedroom doors, finish the trim in the bedrooms and finish up the last bit of sub-floor in the kitchen. We ended up getting two of the three done, didn't get all the trim done. Everything takes longer than you plan. Here are a few pictures, they are pretty much self explanatory.