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We keep moving on in construction. Since I last posted pictures, insulation and drywall have gone up. Also, the siding men have started putting new siding around the upper part of the house. We decided to do the whole upper part ot the house since the old aluminum siding was really, really old and had become a yucky faded color. I think it was called by one of the men, yellow-limey algae slime. LOL!!
The really big news is that Tom Sawyer gets the new room!!! He is so excited. Timothy was given first choice because he is the oldest, but decided it felt too small to him. It is probably the smallest room (or at least feels like it with the attic like design). Because we live in a Dutch Colonial and this room is on the second floor, the Dutch Colonial roof was extended and thus the garrett walls. Tim will move to what is currently our room, and we will move back to the master (which has been Tom Sawyer's and Little Red Ridinghood's). Little Red Ridinghood will move to Timothy's current room and Goldilocks will stay put in her current room. Are you confused yet?!?! BOY, do we have a lot of painting to do in the next few weeks.
The sanding part of the drywall starts sometime this week. Everyone says this is the really bad part of construction because of the dust. We will have to be very careful with our asthmatic children.
The new color of our siding is called bananas (kinda like us, ya know). The contractor was a little concerned that it might be too yellow. We love it, though. With our 1931 home, we wanted the historic yellow that you find on homes in our area and this one matches up great. I will have to try to get a picture of it in the sun. In other news....We are trying to make this rotation of 4 bedrooms less insane by doing a little bit each week. We are getting far enough along to start moving things around. Since we (the parents) are going back to the master, we decided to start working on the walk-in closet. When we started this weekend, it was a clean slate with only a two wooden shelves up high. The teddy bear border around the ceiling was from when the closet was Little Red Ridinghood's nursery. (I've kept the border for sentimental reasons.) It was really important to us to redo this closet for less than $100 but have it look nice and be functional.
Along the far wall we put in a pressure pole that was laying around in someone's closet not being used. The pole will hold clothes that the children have grown out of and are waiting to go to consignment sales. It also holds long-term storage clothes (like my wedding dress), which is tucked back in the corner out of sight. The top self holds photo albums and the kids' baby boxes and books. You can also see that we have loads of winter coats and snow pants. Yes, I know we live in North Carolina. But, my Northern roots get in the way sometimes, and I am just sure it could snow for real anytime now.
Underneath the consignment pole is all of the kids clothes that do not fit them yet and unmarked boxes holding future gifts.
Towards the front of the closet are our clothes and shoes. Also, we have a box of Christmas books and wrapping paper. Total cost for the closet redo ~ $6 for the shoe rack with coupon $40 for the storage boxes $12 for the rack and hardware Total~$58 Blessings, Dawn |
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