Week 59: busy, busy, busy!!!!

8 years ago

Sorry this week's thread is starting late, but as the title suggests, I've been busy!

Today we were out of town at a free summer camp for burn victims and their families and we only got home a few hours ago.

For me, this week I not only had my friends son, took my kids to a few doctor appointments and ballet and gymnastics lessons, but I also got my entire bedroom completely emptied out. The only thing still in there is my bed and my armoire which is too heavy to move by myself.

My plans for this coming week are to remove the popcorn texture from the ceiling in my room, patch the place where there used to be a window and *fingers crossed* hopefully be able to put some primer on the walls and ceiling.

What about you? Are you busy getting projects done (or started), toiling away inside or have you been focused on outside projects? Are you taking a break completely and just enjoying the season and getting ideas together?

What has got you busy right now?

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AnnKH

8 years ago

I'm painting my son's room. Thursday I painted the background color on a feature wall (it took three coats to go from blue to white). Friday I stenciled that wall. Saturday I pained the other three walls in the room - after I spent the day at a workshop at church. Today I get to put the room back together!

Here's the stencil wall, mostly done:

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mgmum
8 years ago
School just got out on Thursday here, so this weekend we haven't done too much other than relax. Yesterday was a huge storm so we watched movies all day. My bathroom guy is coming on July 6th, so I am super psyched about that! I'll have to take some before photos. Other than that, work and hang with the boys on my day off.
Amber
8 years ago
We're headed to Texas this week to visit family! We were supposed to be to framing this week but now I'm glad we're not. For one I can't fathom them getting it right without me here ( so many errors already) and two, I'm not the least bit ready to order my cabinets, still making some cuts ( right now it's perfect but I need to drop a decent amount to make budget. The only thing culling has done is make me realize I NEED more glass front doors.... ;)

Non-house/kitchen stuff has made me want to bury myself in kitchen stuff. We're waiting on results to find out if my dad's cancer has spread. The doctor is fairly confident they caught it early and that is was just in his colon. I hope she's right. The same day he was supposed to have his biopsy a friend he has worked with for over thirty years (how often does that happen?) was told he has 6-12 months to live because his cancer spread. So it's been a bit of a rollercoaster the last few days, unfortunately.
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bpath
8 years ago
That is a wonderful wall!!
ediblekitchen
8 years ago
AnnKH, that is wonderful!

I'm busy, busy, busy with kitchen remodel... floors started going in on Friday. On Saturday they delivered my new range - WITHOUT KNOBS. So sorry, they said, they forgot to include the knobs with the order, so I won't receive them until Tuesday. Without knobs I cannot turn it on to even see if it works. After 3 months without a stove, I was so excited to actually be able to cook something this weekend, and then my hopes were dashed.
nancyjwb
8 years ago
Oh edible! So jealous! I can't imagine having that beauty just sitting there and not being able to test drive:((

I have been so busy outside with my huge garden and our 5 acres of mowing that I've barely been able to clean the house, let alone do any improvements! It makes me miss our little house in town with its postage stamp lawn and garden:)

I've never been ready for fall so early in the summer!
mushcreek
8 years ago
I've been working on window trim in our kitchen, as well as the rest of the house. Our walls are thick, so I flared the returns on a 45 degree angle so they wouldn't be so tunnel-like. In the kitchen, I made panels with beadboard that match the cabinet doors and put them on the window flares. Finally got them made, fitted, and painted.

Despite the house being nowhere near done, we have understanding friends over regularly. We had company for lunch today. Yesterday, I smoked a corned beef (comes out like pastrami) and we had that sliced thin on nice deli rye with all the fixin's. In the winter months, I would have made the bread, too, but it's too hot right now!
Lavender Lass
8 years ago
GARDENING!!! :)

We've had highs of 102 the past few days, so all the plants had to go in the new garden beds...and we got them all planted! Now, it's just watering everything and doing more garden beds in the evenings.

After three years of not doing much outside, it's so nice to have the gardens looking good again. Still a LOT to do, but hopefully by fall....there will be more flowers than weeds! LOL
rmtdoug
8 years ago
Busy? What's that? Normal state of affairs in the rmt empire ;)

I did get the mockup of the kitchen started in the back yard last week (will take pics soon). I drove 8 foot stakes at all corners and stakes for the doorways and then lightly braced everything. I cut 1/8" panel board for flat templates of the counters and sinks and appliances. Monday or Tuesday evening (supposed to cool off a bit), I will lay the counters and appliances out on the ground and get the wife outside to discuss everything. If we reach an agreement on the basic layout, I will construct some supports and place the counters at 36" and then start figuring out where everything fits.

I was wondering if this would be a waste of time. One would think paper grafts would be enough but I think working with an albeit rough but full-scale mockup will be really helpful in planing the details of the functional aspects and some of the major aesthetic features. Already I have a new appreciation of just how small the space is and how important it will be to get everything worked out in advance.
Texas_Gem
Original Author
8 years ago
Ann- that looks awesome!! I hope he appreciates it!

Edible- that is akin to pure torture!!! You have to stare at your awesome new stove and you can't use it?!?!?

Doug- I thought you were taking a few months off? Are you just staying in the planning phase?

As for me, I've had to listen, all day, to my kids cry because they all miss Anna; but my 6 year old (the burn victim) misses her the most.

The camp we go to assigns a counselor to each burn victim and they get the same counselor each year.

We only see her once a year but she makes such a profound impact on my daughter that she cries when we leave camp and for the weeks leading up to camp she talks about Anna all the time!!

I truly hope I have that sort of impact on another person some day!!! She only sees Anna for 8 hours, once a year, BUT she remembers her!! How awesome is that?!? To have that kind of impact on someone, even if they only see you once a year?!?
Eric
8 years ago
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We're busy busy busy with... well... a lot. My wife and I are both in grad school and this was finals week. We have our son's first birthday party the first of August and we're trying to get a few things done

First, I'm going to repaint the deck. (had been painted previously, so until we can afford to replace it completely we're just going to redo it). So I go the deck power washed and ready to go. It's been terribly rainy so I have to wait for a few days of dry weather before I can get that started.

Going to try to get our exposed aggregate sealed at the same time as the deck... Fun!

This week is the big "move". That is, we're moving everything off our first floor into the basement (main floor is like 2400 sq ft). This is so we can begin the flooring and existing cabinet removal. Once everything is moved downstairs, I'll begin taking out the existing cabinets (I have to do this carefully, as I've been able to sell them via craigslist). After cabinets are out, it'll be flooring out and drywall down so we can run gas lines, electrical, and HVAC for the kitchen. Cabinet lead time was 6 weeks, so we should have cabinets arriving next week. We're hoping to be able to get the new floors, cabinets, and drywall back up in time for the birthday. We know we won't have granite by then, but our hope is to have everything else done. With a little luck and help from some friends we should be good (I hope!)!!!
schicksal
8 years ago
Things have been crazy busy here too. The heat index is back to under 110 so I'm almost finished staining the fence. If it looks like rain is moving in soon I have to stop because what's the point if it gets ruined and I have to do it twice...

I spent hours yesterday touching up our floorplan for the master bedroom/bathroom/closet. It was really detailed stuff like measuring a bunch of folded towels, hampers, shoes and old drawings from the last place we lived to make sure everything is going to be built the right size. What's the point of making room for shelving if you make them way too deep/shallow and hard to use? The last part of the plan is just making a list of all the different things (materials) we'll need when we build these new rooms. Right now a lot of the details are "???" because we don't know the flooring or where it will come from, or the bathtub, or the ... Once the list is complete maybe then I'll start breaking out the old rooms.
CEFreeman_GW DC/MD Burbs 7b/8a
8 years ago
Amber, I'm so sorry for all the crap you're working with. Your dad and his friend + people in their lives must be exhausted from the roller coaster ride. I'll be thinking of you.

Nice all, Annkh! That's a talent! :)

Nancyjwb, I'm staring at my mowing acre, myself. The other 5 the farmer hasn't come to take hay in two seasons. It keeps my agricultural exemption. I don't think my old mower has the wherewithal to mow down 3' tall stuff! And, if there is anything like it is here, it's just tooooo hot!

mushcreek, that's cool! I'd love to see a picture. I am still facing all the trim in my entire house. I just know I can do it. It's just figuring out how. Ever built a wall out of French doors? That's my next vision.

T_G, I didn't know your daughter was going through something as tough as that! Thank goodness for (you and) Anna and camp. Do they correspond? What an old term. Do they chat? :)

Good for you, Eric! Exciting news on the floor. I applaud you selling the cabs. Now, where were you gonna do that...?

I'm staring at several projects to work on. Finishing some, actually.
My potting bench,
Building some barricades so these farmer guys don't drive all over my lawn. I envision something like the things horses jump over.
Starting another raised bed.
More spraying. The deer are killing everything this year. I wish I had a fence for another (2) dogs.

Most importantly, I have to move everything out of my den, where I store things, because someone's going to come take the old, GIANT JVC TV out of there. I can't move it and it takes 2 guys. My Hoarder storage room will be empty for a minute. I just gotta find places for everything I'm taking out of it.

Right now I'm going to pick up an antique armoire to either re-do, refinish, or just resell. YEAH!
mushcreek
8 years ago
Couple of quick pics-
schicksal
8 years ago
@CEFreeman_GW - are they taking it for free or for sale? I keep seeing the things curbed in the area but I have no clue whether there's actually any market value for them.
CEFreeman_GW DC/MD Burbs 7b/8a
8 years ago
Shicksal, taking what for free? It's amazing what can be spruced up with a little scratch cover, maybe some tacking down and sold. I figure if I double what I paid, I am ahead of the game. So French doors at $50 I sell for $100. (Ok, sometimes $200).
It's given me almost $6K this last 6 months. Not bad for an indigent yoga teacher/waitress!

mushcreek, live any where near Washington, DC?
rmtdoug
8 years ago
TG, I, too, did not realize you had a daughter who was injured. I hope she recovers fully. Sounds like she is getting lots of love. Best thing for anyone.

Yeah, just taking some time off from spending money; the planning on the house continues full speed ahead. Wife will soon be going to visit family for a week or two so while she is gone I will probably poke a few holes in the kitchen walls to see if what I think is there is actually there. If not, I have another problem that needs a solution before moving forward.

Otherwise, I'm thoroughly enjoying following along with everyone's projects here.
AnnKH
8 years ago
Now that my biggest painting project of the summer is done, I've started rearranging furniture in the newly painted bedroom, family room, and another bedroom. I am in no kind of shape for this sort of manual labor!
mushcreek
8 years ago
CEF- About 500 miles southwest of Washington DC- Why do you ask?
Texas_Gem
Original Author
8 years ago
Woo hoo!! One more room is now de-popcorned!!

Before

After

I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone thought putting popcorn texture in the bay window was a good idea but at least it's gone now.

Still need to patch where the window used to be

Maybe I'll try tackling that tomorrow. For now the pool calls to me!

Doug- and Christine- for some reason I thought I had talked about her burn before. She is fully healed now, it happened 4 years ago when I was 38 weeks pregnant with her little sister. Pulled a bowl of boiling hot stew off the counter onto herself.

She had to be lifeflighted to the burn unit with second degree burns all over her chest.

This was about 2 weeks after the burn. She's all healed now with only 2 tiny scars on her shoulder where the burn underwent conversion (the shiny white spots near her armpit)

She doesn't correspond with Anna outside of camp but I may try to get her address so she can now that she's old enough to write to her. Thanks for the idea!
ediblekitchen
8 years ago
Texas Gem, how scary. Glad to hear she healed so well.

So, my big news of the day - I have knobs! I'm so excited to have a working stove.

Look at those nice, big red knobs! So thrilling! I know, not everyone would get this excited, but I figured I could let loose a little here.

And it works, too. I turned on every burner to every setting and heated up the oven. Of course today we have a dinner that we have to go to and tomorrow another party. Figures I would get this right when I have back to back dinner engagements. But tomorrow morning I plan to cook breakfast. Yes, you heard right, I am going to cook something. I haven't been able to do that in a while.

As you can also see from the above photo, my pot rack is not hung yet. My copper pots will probably live on the stove until that goes up, and that's a whole dilemma... where to hang it, how high - or send it back and get a different one. And then there are the cabinets to finish and the bar top... so clearly we are not out of the woods yet on this kitchen remodel.
rmtdoug
8 years ago
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TG - I'm sure you have mentioned it, I probably wasn't paying attention. I'm so glad she has recovered. You know, I did the same thing when I was very young. I pulled my dad's hot coffee off the counter and badly burned my chest. I had a scar the size of a dollar bill until I was in my teens but now you can hardly see it. My parents were worried no hair would grow there but it did. The ability of young children to heal is pretty amazing.

Well, I laid out the kitchen in the back yard with full size templates of everything. It took the wife 30 seconds to reject every bit of planning I've done for the past two years and yet she knew what I was doing all along. I said show me how you would do it, and she ended up just about where we were on the very first plan...the one with all traffic going right through the middle of the kitchen (9 x 15 feet, if you want to know). I have quite a mess to deal with now and she doesn't want to discuss it for another two months as it's "not convenient" right now.

Wimmin!!!

Oh, and she's mad at me because the remodel is taking so long.
CEFreeman_GW DC/MD Burbs 7b/8a
8 years ago
T_G, my cousin did that as well. Unfortunately, she keloids. But, as rmtdoug said, kids have an incredible ability to heal. She's a cutie. :)

I want to take a second to recognize us celebrating even the little things. Knobs. No popcorn (ok, huge things, too!) paint, just the little things that move us forward. Accomplishments!

rmtdoug, she's gonna show YOU, isn't she? I see a nose. I see spite. I see noseless face.
rmtdoug
8 years ago
CEF - Sorry you feel that way, but so many people here have taken their time to help me and she let me do this for two years without saying once that where I was going with the plan was wrong..until now.
Texas_Gem
Original Author
8 years ago
Mushcreek- I really like what you did with your windows! Looks good.

Edible- don't mind that green haze coming towards you, its just my jealousy over that awesome new stove. Yay!!!

Doug- I'm fuming for you over here!! Pardon my French but what the hell?!?!? She couldn't say anything in the last two years? Just let you keep planning so she can shoot it down in the end? That's not right.
rmtdoug
8 years ago
TG - No it isn't right. Her long-held opinion of this whole remodel is that I am wasting my time, so nobody in my family or her's would be surprised at this turn of events. Actually, either plan will do. It's not a complete setback. I just think with the last plan I had solved all the issues I was aware of. In two months, it will be resolved, but now I lose the whole summer to work on my mock-up, which was turning out to be really helpful. I didn't even take a picture.

CEF - I'm calmed down now ;) You would have to know her to understand why she did this. I will not let it get to me.

If anyone takes anything away from this is that a layout in your yard with stakes for the walls and doorways, panel board for counters, and squares for appliances laid out on the ground works wonders for visualizing a kitchen. You can stand and reach and twist and walk to see exactly how you would move in the space.
christina222_gw
8 years ago
Not much happening here. Work is insane right now. I'm supposed to be off for a few days next week but I doubt that will happen. Fighting with the insurance company over the porch ceiling and waiting for the contractor. Just slow and frustrating. I have guests coming and the house is a mess. Oh well, my issues are minor in the long run, just need to buck up and get things done.
ediblekitchen
8 years ago
Doug, that is so awesome that you did full scale layout in your yard! I really am in awe of that. I'm sure it will not be a complete setback and all the work you put into this will still be worth it.
oasisowner
8 years ago
Finished teaching a summer course last week, as the cabinets were being installed. All electrical, wall repair is DONE. This week we installed the flooring, hired someone to paint (just too tired at this point), and had the counters templated. Or was that last week? I have slowly been putting everything into the cabinets, except for top drawers. Last night was a family reunion and tomorrow we are hosting fireworks. No cooking this year, as we still don't have a kitchen sink, so everyone is coming late. THIS IS THE LAST MAJOR REMODEL I WILL EVER DO!!!
AnnKH
8 years ago
I had a busy couple of days with my Mom. She moved into an apartment 1.5 years ago, and we're still tweaking. In two days, I hung curtains in her bedroom, trimmed bushes, moved a plant hanger (which included spackling and painting the old holes), cleaned the garage (including tossing stuff, organizing what was left, sweeping, and pulling weeds by the door); at Mom's rarely-used lake cottage I made the beds, hung curtains, weed-whipped (luckily Mom pays the neighbor to mow), threw rocks that the ice had pushed up on shore, picked up sticks and branches, cleaned the water filter.

In the evenings, we relaxed by driving through a nearby state park. Monday night we saw 8 deer, 2 turkeys, and a racoon; Tuesday night we saw 16 deer, two trumpeter swans, and a few loons.
Texas_Gem
Original Author
8 years ago
My electrician (aka hubby) finally got my second pendant hung over the island today!!

You may or may not remember when I posted this pic back in September or October

Right after I built and installed my temp island. The area looked, quite frankly, somewhat ridiculous.

An 8 ft long island with this one lone pendant hanging over one end of it.

The reason it was there was because that was an existing box that used to have a fluorescent light box on it.

I knew I wanted to put in another box ran off of the first one and install 2 pendants, well, today it finally got done!!

Yay!! Not only is it aesthetically pleasing but there is soooo much more light over my island now!

Can I just mention again how much I love the smoke colored glass in these pendants?

Also, in keeping with our weekly thread "no accomplishment is too small", I tracked down some spare 2x6 and cut blocks to fit in the old window spot.

I also got the piece of drywall cut to install. The only reason I haven't yet is because I am thinking of creating a "time capsule" to put in the wall before I close it off.

Chances are that spot will be opened again at some point in the future, it is where the MIL quarters and main house meet.

Even if I never open it back up, I thought it would be cool to leave a "treasure" there for someone to discover in the future.

Tell me truthfully, does that sound really lame or kinda cool?
Terri_PacNW
8 years ago
Kinda cool.

We love watching Fixer Upper with the Gaines' on HGTV. They did a house where they found a bottle in the wall with a message from the "young" guy who built it.
Texas_Gem
Original Author
8 years ago
Terri- so funny! Our previous house was a 1953 ranch style that someone had remodeled in the 80s, taking the single car garage and using the space to enlarge the kitchen and create a den.

When we opened the walls to re-run electrical and erect a new wall we came across some old writing. It said something about remodeling work, blah blah blah and then had the name Gary Calhoun and a local phone number.

Over the course of our remodel we discovered that Gary wasn't as good as he seemed to think he was; there were SO many problems we had to correct from a 20 year old shoddy remodel that we nicknamed it "the Calhoun curse".

Even now, if we run across a problem done by prior owners, its the " Calhoun curse" following us! ;)

I suppose I don't want to be another "Calhoun curse" to someone in the future. ;)
AnnKH
8 years ago
TG, it's a cool idea! I made a time capsule when we remodeled our kitchen - I put it in a dead corner space. It includes photos of the kitchen before remodel, and a little bit about the history of the house (DH and I bought it new in 1989).
ediblekitchen
8 years ago
Love the idea of the time capsule. I wish we had done one when we had a wall open.