Can I request an extension?

All of you that bet against me finishing by Wednesday...were right. Dang it! Our renovation reality over here went slower than expected (of course). I thought we were on track last night until Marc told me he needed another day to do a second layer of mud on the drywall. So...maybe by tomorrow night?? Definitely by the end of the week.

But, in the meantime I have been working on Jake's dresser and finished that last night. So I do have a picture to show. He has a Cars themed room, and so I decided to refinish a white dresser that I made to look like a tool chest cabinet.

Pictures to come by Wednesday

We've been working on getting all the wiring we need for the t.v. behind the wall...and so as of now nothing looks different. But, we are planning on drywalling tomorrow. Then we just need to texture the wall, paint it, and mount the t.v. And then I'll take a new picture. I'm taking bets on who thinks I can have that all accomplished by Wednesday:) And, Jake's dresser should be done by then too so I'll take a picture of his room too.

The fireplace is done!

So this is the before...
and here's the After!

I am so happy with how it turned out. It made all the days, late nights, and weekends of working on it worth it...(I think..haha:) Let's hope the rest of my house projects don't take as much time and thought as this one did (although I'm sure they will). I spent several weeks bringing home samples of stacked stone because that was my original plan. Then one Friday night Marc and I went to Home Depot and bought everything we needed to do the stone fireplace. We were there for hours. We got home and were watching a movie, and I saw a picture online of a fireplace and changed my mind on the spot. You should have heard me telling that one to Marc:) Anyway, we got the tile and mouldings and everything we needed to do it like this. Who knew you could actually spend an ENTIRE Saturday and only accomplish putting up one piece of moulding??! Pathetic, but very true. Another holdup was that I actually had grouted the tile with a different color first and didn't like it, and then chipped it all out. So anyway, we had our share of setbacks on this, but it all turned out in the end.

So I'm thinking I might do more frequent updates on the house, since it's pretty much my obsession right now anyways. It'll make it more fun to chart my progress. So now our current projects are mounting the t.v. over the fireplace (we had to open up the wall)...and I'm painting. I painted Jake's room over the weekend and am working on setting up his Cars bedroom (more pics to come on that.)

More updates to come!