OK, so I haven’t really been slacking. That much.
I completely underestimated how busy life was going to be with two kids
and the desire to still have a social life!
Add on top of that a second job teaching at a local Technical College,
and you have one busy Justin. I have,
however, been working around here. We
decided recently (after a lot of painting has already been done on the house)
to add on a second bathroom and just stay put at 538 for a few more years. Hopefully we’ll get to that by the end of
2012!
Last weekend was a banner weekend here at 538. After MONTHS of dragging this project on, I FINALLY finished painting the back of the house. I used a heat gun and a sander and got the house down to the bare wood…then primed and painted the house and trim! All I have left to do is scrape the windows and put the screens and shutters back on and the back of the house is complete! Until we rip it off in 6 months…
I also got around to re-painting the back door after it had
been scratched up and test painted ages ago.
We went with a deep, almost brownish purple color after seeing how great
it looked on Lara’s house. Which brings
me to my next project: the new front
door!
I’ve been looking for a door like this since we moved in. The current front door is a solid metal door
with no windows whatsoever. It’s the definition
of depressing and makes the house look like it’s still a rental property.
Well, I snagged this bad boy for less than $100…so we’re
gonna paint it the same purple as the back door and splurge on the hardware…which
will look something like this:
Last but not least, we finally replaced the dining room
light fixture. I really liked our old
cantilever lamp that came with the house, but it was a bit too heavy and
blocked the view into the kitchen after we opened up the wall. This new fixture is from CB2 (via craigslist
at 30% discount!). Installing it was a
BIOTCH, as moving the fixture 3’ over to the south resulted in re-wiring the
living, dining, and kitchen because there was absolutely no slack in the wiring
in the attic and the circuits in this house are whack!
Really brightens the space up! Now it's time to patch the hole...
