Living Room Progress

I've had some extra time to work on the house lately since I am currently unemployed. So the up-side is that we are making some serious progress, the down-side of the situation doesn't really need to be explained.

I spent most of the last week touching up the drywall in the living room, mudding and sanding, over and over. Now we have primed the entire room and given the walls the first coat of Martha Stewart "Cake Stand Blue".

Here is what it is supposed to look like:



We picked the color out last year, and when I looked at it again I decided I hated it. I don't hate it anymore, but I don't love it. I think it will work, and Michael really really likes it. It's hard to choose a color for such a big room.

Anyway, here are some photos of our progess this week:


Fun times sanding drywall.







Michael getting ready to prime the ceiling.





It's finally starting to look like a room, not just a collection of drywall. The color is only on the walls in the last photo, but it didn't show up very well as it's only one coat and lighting wasn't great. It's all very exciting and rewarding. I can't wait to finish it up and start moving in to it, it will really make a huge change in the whole dynamic of the house as we will have a dining room once we aren't using it for a living room anymore, and the ktichen will be much more spacious without the dining room table in it.

Hopefully we will have some new and exciting photos soon.

The Bar Exam does NOT leave alot of time for house fun :(

I can't believe it's been two weeks since I posted last.

Unfortunately there hasn't been too much progress. Whereas we were originally just going to replace what was visible as far as plumbing in the bathroom, everytime we do one thing, something else comes up that needs to be replaced. The joys of an old house. So Michael has spent the last couple of weeks replacing almost all of the plumbing in the house, and running a new line to the water main - which is all the way at the front of our .78 acre yard. Here are a couple of photos of Michael's work - it looks like a mutant groundhog came through the yard - and Michael's plumbing progress in the bathroom!






We both took some time off (me from studying & Michael from the house) to celebrate our second anniversary. We went up to Louisville for the night and had an awesome dinner at a local restaurant called 610 Magnolia. It was supposed to be the best in Louisville - it was really fabulous, and the service was excellent.


Only 19 days left until the bar exam, and then hopefully Michael and I can really make some progress working together. It would be great if we could have the bathroom done by the end of the month and finally move in! Oh, and our tub fixtures came in and they look awesome - now if we could only decide on the sink faucets, who knew it could be so hard!