This past weekend we thought we might need to make the back bedroom look like a bedroom. So we went mattress shopping. We found a good one but a bed frame that was nice was another story. So I built one the following day. Anyways here is the finished back bedroom.
Everywhere I look in the house we have counters full of food from the garden. We need a bigger kitchen.
There was this concrete door sill that was between the backroom and kitchen. We kept a rug over it all this time and yesterday we finally did something about it. We used floor paint and painted wood grain into the wet base paint.
The space in between the door way isn't even that bad now.
The floor to the bathroom needed the divider too, so we purchased a $5.00 metal piece for that.
I have about 15 more things to do and I think we can say we are finished with the Mo House. They are are little things like above that we have just been living with..
With 2009 coming to a close we are hoping to finish the house completely with the last week of the year. We went and purchased all the remaining supplies and over the next week I am going to finish it all. Every room has small details that are not done. Probably nothing most people would notice and most likely things that people live with all the time. Missing trim, little nicks in the wall, scratched paint and such will all be completed, Lord willing! So in the end it took exactly 1 year and 6 months to remodel this house. I have been working on this place for so long I am not sure what I will do when all the tools are downstairs in the basement and the corners are free of tool belts, dry wall mudd and cans of paint. Maybe we can come to your house if we go through construction withdrawls....I am sure there is a pill for that however.
Today we went to get a couple of curtain rods for the back bedroom, which we did find at Lowes. We also found our floor for .30 cents a square foot, which we promptly grabbed up and installed today. Normally this floor was 1.98 a sf so we wound up paying more for the curtain rods than we did the floor.
The washer & dryer are now hidden from view.
My lovely bride decorated the Christmas Tree while I did the floor.
She also made cookies, a cake and a few cup cakes which I am about to go devour.
The big news is.......after 1 year and exactly 6 months from moving down here for our Summer Vacation, we have a washer & dryer right in our very own house. We have said good bye to the laundry mat and hello to our own back room. For those of you with laundry right in your own home, you may be thinking what is the big deal, but those of you who know the adventures of a laundry mat know what we are so excited about. The best part is we do not have to spend Saturdays enjoying second hand smoke, screaming children, Jerry Springer on the television and other peoples left overs in the machines. We will miss the yoga man. He would do yoga right there in the laundry mat while his clothes were washed. 
Over Thanksgiving and up to today, we have put a new door in the room, finished off the trim around the patio door and today I laid down the underlayment on the floor. Boo Boo thinks he is getting a pretty good bedroom. Tonight we hope to have a really big event which we will blog about in the morning. Now you won't sleep all night as I know you will wonder what it is. 
This past weekend we painted the back room, installed the light and the face plate covers on the outlets.
Yesterday I drove by a dumpster and spotted two picture frames next to it. One of which we took the cardboard painting out of and replaced it with foamcore, covered by fabric. We cut a hole out for the thermostat and now my wife has a place to stick ideas right above her desk. It is nice to have a frame shop in the studio because of the tools that makes quick work of a project like this. We thought about showing a "how to" demonstration on the blog, but you know how you feel when you watch New Yankee Workshop and Norm has all those cool tools that you don't have. (yeah me too) 
After a few long days all the plants are in and alot of the beds have been filtered. We doubled the size of the garden for next year. I used up all the compost so a new batch is starting for the Spring. We have 4 apple trees now. I was reading the garden should always have apple trees. The second coat of mudd has been put on the walls in the back bedroom. I hope to have the room painted by the end of next week. Still along way to go but I think our house can now safely say it is no longer an eyesore in the neighborhood.
Boo Boo is a big screen nut now. Of course this being Sunday I am sure there are more than a few guys out there who have the same problem.
I finished painting the new siding this evening. It is Nov. 7th and it was 76 degrees outside. All week it has been beautiful which is nice since it took me 8 days to install the door, put on new siding and a new roof. I still have to re-motar the foundation. That will only take a day and then it is back to the inside room.
It looks like a mess but, this week we have put on new siding a new roof and I am in the process of getting it ready to be painted, hence the pink primer paint.
The first coat of mud
The last sheet of drywall went up today.
Now it is time for mud. We are going back and forth on the fancy light, should we keep it or not? 
So the pink foam stuff was moved today and placed over the old window. So in a little while there wil be a 6' patio door to look out at the garden.
That is what you see framed here.
Here was the old door spot. Insulated all up now.
I still have to cut a dryer vent and install the washer box. 
