Happy Birthday...

 Soups on...

 Minnie Mouse Cupcakes...

opening the presents...

Here, Let us help...

Blow out your candles...

little things...

 

the idea I found online...

Made a new kitchen curtain...

the kitchen light switch cover,

below is the one in the utility room...

I made new pillows for the couch (two each of the floral and stripe)

the others (on the top) were zipper covers, I bought after Christmas Clearance,

for $2.50 each. I just had to stuff them.

doggie seal of approval...

repainted the wall clock "Sea Mist"

testing out the metal siding...

new tablecloth...

and my February Mantle...

Continuing on...

OK... work on the house stopped for two days so I could go to work,
you know that place that pays me to talk on the phone,

and The Crew could have a day to play golf...

Today we laid out the galvanized tin to see how it will look.

it was surplus from the metal place.

So got it for $55.00 cut.

need to clean up a couple.

This will go in the entry.

Today we are prepping the dining room and hallway to be painted.

Kenneth got one coat on while I fixed supper...

the hall is ready to go...

That is tomorrows project.

Five days...

 I took a couple extra days off from work
so we could finally complete several projects. 

This is what we finished yesterday...

Got Red Plastic paint...

I saw this done on
"Mango and Tomato" a beautiful blog.

such a simple thing...

 

spray the knobs,
 make sure they are super clean.

Took several thin coats...

WOW! what a difference.

Pinch Me! It's so pretty.

When I got up yesterday I made coffee
 and scraped out the caulking grout we had used.
We went back and bought some
more of the regular TEC Grout

and did it again.
Kenneth applies, I clean.
We also went with a little darker

shade, it looked like cocoa in the jar.

Much better...

painted trim boards and 

It's Done!  Who wants something baked?

Scroll on down to see what all we got
 accomplished it the last five days...

Today I get to go back to work...

Check back soon, there's more to come.

Remember where we bagan...

Before...  We started remodeling March 8, 2012...

See the full story here.

After...

(We do still need 8 more doors)

Before...

removed the electric stove top and oven...

After...
Now we're cooking with GAS!

 

Added slide out shelves...

Before...
Not enough storage...

 

Built in a Pantry...

with a cleaning cabinet.

Before...

Took out the china Cabinet, moved the refrigerator here...

After...

Added a cabinet over the refrigerator.

 

After...

Added a Baking Center.

Before...still had the panel walls.

After... Kenneth allowed me one yellow room.

We still have a few things to do and if you've following

along, we have moved on to the Living room.

We've made the spare bedroom into an office/craft room.

Stay tuned...

there's more to come.

A BIG Fail...

We decided the grout "caulking" we put in the baking center  this 

morning is not going to work.  So tomorrow we will be

scraping it all out and using the same "real" grout we used on the back splash.

But on a brighter note...

we finally got the new dining room light installed...

I had to turn it off to get a picture...

night photo of the under cabinet lights...

and a little teaser...

check out "Mango and Tomato"

This Mornings Project...

We caulked in the baking counter top...

we used unsanded grout caulking,

not sure this was the correct way to go, we'll

see after it dries.

We may end up scraping it all out and using sanded.

waiting 24 hours for it to dry.

this is what we used...

UPDATE...

We are also adding more lighting to the kitchen...




under cabinet lighting...



 this is not an easy thing for my contractor...

 but very nice...