No, we are not done yet.....

......But I sure wish we were. This past month Steve textured all the walls in the living room, down the hallway and the 1/2 bath. Then he did an awesome job on the trim and there was A LOT of trim. Then we had to putty all the nail holes, caulk and sand. So time consuming. It has taken us a week to paint the living room with the primer and then paint the ceiling and trim with the hi gloss white. We still have a second coat of the white to put on. Then wait for a few days for it to cure so we can mask it all off and paint the walls a color I am still trying to decide on.

I did something to my ribs and back muscles last weekend, maybe from all the puttying, and sanding, but I could not help sand the primer or really do much of anything so I read, read and read, which I haven't done for years - but I did get the last 2 books of the Hunger Games read in one week.

Dennis has some night shifts this week, which gives him more hours during the day to get stuff done, so hopefully we will get a lot accomplished. The bad thing about doing remodeling in March is it competes with the things that need to be done outside. Early spring lawn fertilizing, tree pruning, and some of the garden can be planted in a week.

We still have to get the rest of the baseboards on in the 1/2 bath and part of the kitchen and the back side of the new wall that was once a doorway is mudded and textured, then when can do our final sanding and I CAN CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN. Every room in the house needs a major deep cleaning. Walls, blinds, closets, knick knacks, EVEYTHING needs to be dusted. Windows and curtains washed. Inside of drawers cleaned and washed out. That dust has settled into every nook and cranny and will take some major work to get rid of. It will really be a spring cleaning like none other.

We are getting closer to being done on the living room, but both upstairs bathrooms still need to finished. The master bathroom is still waiting for the vanity and mirror. The 1/2 bath needs finish trim and painting, which hopefully Dennis and I can get to later this week. Soon, it will all be done and all the stress will be forgotten.