Countdown to Baby. B-82 days

September 1, 2012

Since it was raining yesterday, I didn't make it around the whole outside of the house.  Here is the current status of the East and North sides.... notice the blue that has been sporadically added around. 

I spent today painting the worlds longest boards. Seriously.  I first attempted to carry them into the apartment area, but after that fun (imagine Ross screaming "pivot" on friends), I ditched the 1 board that made it in the apartment area and set up here:

These are our upstairs trim boards.

Here is my completed pile on the right:




I also painted the windows to the attic, which will hopefully be installed soon:

I also painted these lovely trim pieces for the attic:



Beyond that, Alok made some window sills, as seen here. They are waiting to be primed and painted:

So.... let's have an update on the Countdown to Baby 2012 list!

Of the 40 items, what did we complete?

NOTHING!  OK, we did accomplish a few things.  Just not enough to check it off the list yet.

So, here is the continuous list that was posted the first day (aka yesterday)....... The first 40 are the same, with #41 being added (of course).

1) Get as much done on the outside siding as possible.  Some of this can be done next spring, but we will get as much done prior to moving in.  Today was a perfect example of me using a bathroom in the house while someone climbed up a ladder outside the window. Fun times.

 

2)  

Hang up the spice rack (it goes in the space in the pic below)

 3)

It goes here

4)

Add this trim.... actually this is for all rooms upstairs and in the apartment area downstairs. We got the delivery from Bayview Building Supply today!

5)

Finish the backsplash (notice that the sides aren't attached and put in the stove

 6)

Now, we can always paint/clean this lovely sink later, but right now it's unusable 

7)

Hang up the butler's pantry doors after stripping the paint off the hinges

8)

Add some doors on the bathrooms (most of the other rooms won't have doors for a bit)

9) 

Clean up and/or tear out this area.... in the apartment

10)

Lay a floor in the apartment area.  There is way too much dust to leave it as a sub-floor for now.  We will just do a pre-finished oak here.

 11)

Get a door for this bathroom

12)

Either fix or at least put up a door so the pets can't escape in this unfinished area under the stairs

13)

Pet proofing... which involves covering all of the open holes, like Alok did here.  He cut tin and put it over the old radiator/electrical holes in the floor

 

A not covered hole 

The lack of pocket doors are a perfect place for dust/pets to hide

Attic stair top needs to be capped so that a pet doesn't get injured jumping on it

14)

Poly all of the exposed brick (this is in 10 places.....side note, look how clean this is! No tools, no paint)

 

Another one to poly 

Another view of the clean space

Same here

15) 

Cover up the window wells. They will have the original trim refinished eventually, but for now, there are just exposed dusty weights

 16)

Fix these lovely steps.  Plan= paint them (brown top, white front) and lay a runner.

17) 

Hang the stained glass window here. We need to get a piece of glass for it. 

18)

Cover this lovely gaping hole in the side of the staircase

19) 

We are not finishing the bathroom, but should hang a door in order to keep the dust out/pets out of this area (this is our master bath)

20)

Hang trim in our bedroom.... as well as the other rooms upstairs (at least the bedroom and nursery before we move in)

21)

Repair the hole in the master bedroom chimney

22)

Hang trim in the nursery... otherwise, it's looking good!  

23) 

Notice how this lovely closet still has plaster? Solution= use the cedar we tore out and line this closet.

24)

We aren't finishing the hallway bath either, but we are hanging a door.

This will stay like this for now... unless he wants to go ahead and lay the hardybacker board since it's pretty dusty

25)

Hang a door on our new furnace room

26)   

Make/paint window sills for all windows in order to seal them.

27) 

Possibly lay a floor in Alok's office. He thinks we should wait, but again, it's a dust issue.  I think we should just do bamboo.

 28)

Repair the drywall in Alok's office area.  It's too dusty to do it later.

29) 

Rip out these old electrical heaters in Alok's office

30) 

Nothing much!  Just hanging trim around the laundry room windwo

31)

Hang closet bars in these two small closets. The rest will have to wait.

32)  

Repair the chimney hole in the yellow bedroom

33)  

Fix this hole....even with a piece of wood so cats can't escape into the wall

34) 

Fix the attic stairs..... we are actually just going to carpet this.

35)

Hang the trim around the attic windows.   It's painted and ready to go.

36) 

Hang Alok's window.... hopefully the garbage bag works for the rain this weekend!

37)

Cut a door for the attic bath

 38)

Hang this lovely, horror-movie mirror

 39)

Fix the plumbing on the sink

40)

Put a piece of hardy backer board here in the master bath to cover the hole/prevent the dust later

41) This is new!  New basement outside door/windows.

So, now we are only at 41 things!  Yesterday we were at 40.  I believe that means we are moving in the wrong way.

Here is the updated Countdown to Baby 2012:

This is our alleged move in date countdown:

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That's all for now!

Jessica