Painting and Flooring and Plastering...Oh My!

So, the Hudling is coming along...slowly, but surely. Rit has been spending all day, every day at the Hudling this weekend. Meanwhile, I'm working feverishly to get our current abode ready to show. Yep, that's right. We're selling our house!

After looking around for five years, we've finally found a house we can agree on. Although leaving this house is bittersweet and we've loved our time here, we're anxious to be settled in the new house.

The Hudling is really starting the look transformed. Rit's been working really hard on the kitchen cabinets. Since the wood cabinets were nice and sturdy, we decided to simply clean them up and give them a fresh coat of pain and some new hardware. They look AWESOME! Even better than I imagined. Although the hardware isn't on yet, here's a sneak peak at the new look.

Our sweet friend Jan came over to help Rit cut and lay cement board to prep for the tile. Although we aren't laying the tile until after the walls are painted, they started with the prep. (By the way, our big purchases this week included a texture sprayer and a paint sprayer...YEAH!!) Here is a view of the back hallway leading to the kitchen.

The upstairs bathroom is the most desperate of the lot. It's almost completely gutted. We've removed all of the fixtures plus part of the wall to the studs and the subfloor over the bathtub plumbing. We're relocating the shower/bathtub plumbing the other end of the space. Why? Because the previous owner in all their wisdom installed the shower on the slanted ceiling. Not even I in my towering 5'5" glory could have stood up straight in the tub without hitting my head on the shower head. Nice. Plus, in removing part of the built-out wall, we can install a typical 54" tub instead of the 48" tub that was there when we laid eyes on the wonderful disaster. It's a sorry sight now, but it will shortly look fabulous.

We are going with carpet in the upstairs bedrooms and as a runner on the wood stairs. I felt that carpet would be fine in the living room. Rit disagreed...and won. We are not only going with wood in the living room (which will look amazing...), but we are also installing it ourselves. Huh. We've never installed wood flooring. Should be interesting.

Meanwhile, the Hudling gets cuter and cuter every day.

Old Ed

Yep, here's Ed. For those of you who don't know Ed, he's our neighbor. As a retired farmer, Ed appreciates a hard day of work. Although his stamina has faded in his old age, his desire to help is alive and kicking. Sometimes it's hard to find tasks that feed his hunger to be a workhorse, without risking cardiac arrest! So, here he is helping clean up after demolishing the cabinet in the basement.

A little house party and the HUDling gets plastered!

We opted for a day of fun and a day of work this weekend. So after a picnic at the beach, a matinee movie, and some fun at a friend's open house party, today, we headed over to the HUDling to roll up our sleeves (ok, no need to roll short sleeves), and get dirty. Today was plaster day and the HUDling surely got plastered...cracks, holes, loose spots - all targeted by our lean, mean, plaster repair team (Kate, Rit, and Mel). Thanks to Mel for her help again this weekend! And thanks to Frank and Peg for the toilet Mel delivered! Finally, a place sit down to take a break (there are no chairs over there).

Our kind neighbor, Old Ed, also chipped in and helped tear apart a cabinet in the basement. Neat old cabinet, but really was doing a better job serving as a moisture/mold sponge, so it had to go!

Pictures, you want? Yep, took some but left the camera over there so enjoy the suspense.