Yesterday (Saturday), we FINISHED the stairs!! We still need carpet but that's out of our control (backordered the last we heard). It is such a relief to have that done!! Matt finished putting up the trim on Wednesday (I think) and yesterday it was just a lot of little things to finish (painting around the caulk, touchups, putting up the smoke detectors, etc). Such a HUGE relief to have that done!!
Can't wait to see what it'll look like with the carpet.
It took 200+ hours of work from Matt & I and another 20 hours of drywall help from others. We've worked our butts off for the last 6 weeks but it's finally done!! I was starting to think it never would be but we did it. I don't think we'll be drywalling again anytime soon. =)
To compare:
original
at it's worst
all drywalled
DONE!!
There is more to it than just this one window but it's the easiest part to photograph. It's not as small of an area as we thought!!
Now that that's finally all done we can relax a little more. =) Somehow in the midst of this I managed to do my NYC scrapbook, finish Christmas shopping, bake 8 kinds of Christmas cookies (and 4 batches of chex mix), and get the house decorated. Now we get our lives back! I'm all baked, decorated, and shopped for Christmas. Just need to wrap a few more things and make my desserts for the parties. Not bad. =)
We had our "Matt and Diana day" last Monday. Really needed that extra day off because Matt was working on the trim until about 1:30 Sunday night. We slept in, went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part 1) (loved it!), and then spent a lot of time working on the house.
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