The Office is Painted!

This past week Jeff and his parents finished sanding the walls and that ment that I got to paint! I have a few different before and after pictures to share.

 Before

after

Before

After

In this picture you can see the light in the office and into the dining room

Next step in the office is to put in the wood floors and then sand, stain and clear coat them. After the floors are in then we will put trim around the windows, baseboard around the floor, install the door and closet doors. 

If you saw the office before the remodel job you will know that we moved the closet, raised the ceiling from 7.5 feet to 9.5 feet and added 2 new windows. there also wasn't any heat or A/C in the room so we added that and there was only 1 outlet and now there are 6. Because we raised the ceiling so much we decided to not raise the top of the closet up that high so we could have storage up there.

I am loving how it looks and I can't wait till we finish it! This week I will also be painting the dining room so we can finish that as well. We will do the dining room and office floors and trim at the same time.

It will be so nice to have these rooms back when they are done!

More blogs to come on the office and dining room project.

A New Page in My Life!

Today June 7th was my last day of work!

I have been watch my sister Kari's kids since October of 2008. Now that I have two kids of my own its time for me to stay home with them. Seven kids is a lot of kids to watch! I will miss seeing Jocelyn, Anthony, Elaina, Danny and Matthew almost every week day! I will still see them at family stuff and when we hang out. Natalie and Matthew are really close so I think that it will be the hardest on them not being together every time I would watch the kids.

Some people may wonder what I will do when I'm home most of the time. I have plans to work on the yard and gardens, and to keep up on laundry, dishes, cooking, baking and house cleaning. It is also a lot of work to take care of kids and teach them new things. I would like to also work on painting my dining room and office when they are ready and then all of the trim work. Natalie has a bed frame that I need to sand down and paint so that we can put that in use. I'm really glad that I will have time to work on projects keep up on the blog and spend time with my kids and dogs during the day and also keep up on the house so nights and weekends aren't so crazy busy doing house work.