Dining Room

Kitchen

So here is what we came up with for a kitchen.

Finishing Touches

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..

Kitchen today before & after

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Before & After

Just looking through old pictures this morning and wanted to show a few before and afters.

She is so beautiful

How to cut a hole in the wall

It is in, we are through the other side.

Shelving in the kitchen

This past weekend we put shelves up in the kitchen. The wall is plaster over cement so a regular drill and bit didn't cut the mustard. So I got to buy a hammer drill. Just saying the words "Hammer Drill" you can hear guys grunting like Tim Allen on Tool Time. I mean the thing has power...ohhhh arrggg ohhhh. It's a 1/2 inch, Two Speed gear train, Reversible, Double Insulated, mode selecting, lock on feature with the auxiliary handle assembly. A guy can take this drill and place eight 3/16" holes 1 7/8" deep in solid concrete to attach shelving in a matter of minutes. Thus allowing your wife to organize a varitey of jars filled with what not to some how cook these amazing meals to which all that grunting energy is properly restored in the guy. ohhh arrggg ohhhh!

The Refrigerator is in!

So this weekend we purchased a refrigerator that fits the spot I built for it and put the old one out on the front porch so we can look like a real redneck. We are still waiting for the recliner with duct tape . lol. We also were able to purchase the rest of the flooring but I need to finish off the front room before I can install it. Last week I also spent time in the attic tearing out a room that never should have been built up there. I then insulated it as it was only R-11 up there making it real hot in the house during the summer. I can only imagine how cold it would have been this winter or the gas bill. After the front room is finished we are going to move the bedroom there for a time while a bathroom from scratch is built in the old bedroom. Then the old bathroom will be turned into a new bedroom. After that we have a back porch to turn into a 2nd bedroom and new coat of paint on the outside and our Summer Vacation in Missouri will be over.

One of those Before & After pictures

Here is a before and after shot, from when we first started until today. Still more to do but it is a far cry from where it was.

New Floor

New Floors this weekend! We found a deal on flooring and put it in. The living room is coming along. We have resurfaced the plaster walls, dropped in a new sub floor, painted, redid the windows and put in a working ceiling fan. Other stuff as well but I don't remember it all. Those pictures will follow shortly.

Counter tops and top trim

The kitchen counter tops are all on now. The 3/4" plywood wrapped in $3.00 Walmart material was nice but the upgrade is nicer. We still have to do above the stove; shelves or cabinets. The one cabinet we have is 48" so it will not fit correctly and I guess we will use that in the mud room. We also trimmed out the top of the half walls, painted them and finished them off with 8-9 layers of wax. It gives them a factory baked finish look, that the fancy cabinet makers have without the need for a walk in oven.

It will be so nice to get the wood floor and base board trim down.

There is Boo Boo in the backgrond and the next room waiting to be started. That will be the living room when we are done. Last weekend we hung the fan & light. We still need to place the fridge in the slot, left of the sink. We must purchase a fridge that is 30" wide as the slot I made and the fridge we found do not match up. Right now the fridge is in the living room. It makes for a big work triangle in the kitchen. lol

This morning

Here we are with a few updates this morning. The kitchen so far. The sink has the counter top in and we are painting so that's why the blue tape. By the stove the counter tops are 3/4 plywood from the old cabinets, wrapped in 3.00 Walmart tabel cloth. It will work unitl we can buy the counter tops. The floor now has 1/4 plywood ready for a real floor but we are very thankful to have plywood vs the old floor. The sun is coming in the windows so you cannot see my beautiful wife handy work with the curtains but trust me they are awesome. I am sorry guys but I do have the best wife in the whole world.

This is the outside of the house this morning along with the temp and our old refrigerator shown next to the new one. The old one is for sale. Now we paid $2.35 for it but now we have learned a thing or two about Missouri and we know this thing is worth $350.00 for sure. See if you went to a store to buy a new fridge you would have to pay $600.00 and this one is only 51 days old. So we will consider offers above $300.00, shipping is extra. It's the old fridge for sale by the way. If we cannot get at least $300.00 we will just keep it. See we are learning the culture down here too! lol

Here we are about two weeks ago, in the kitchen. If you click on it you can see the pictures bigger.

Here we are in April, when we came down for 5 days and we were going to fix the place up and sell it, all in 5 days of course. The first night here I told Kristine, let’s just load up your stuff and abandon this place. Of course this was picture was taken after 3 days of work and many more before I even showed up by Kristine. The above picture there is paneling on the floor to cover OSB that is soaked in old dog urine to cover an old furnace grate. Below the OSB gone and the floor repaired with new boards. The walls were painted too and the kitchen cabinets (if you could call them that) are removed. We were feeling pretty good about the 5 days of work we did here and left for Wisconsin.