Weekend Work

This past weekend allowed us to take care of more work at the flip house. We started on Saturday morning by putting the knobs and pulls on the kitchen cabinets. Mom and Dad came up from Sioux Falls to spend the day in town, and they made a pit stop at the house to install the cabinet hardware. Dad drilled the holes and Mom attached the knobs. Chad and I entertained our visitors! Chad's parents and our friends Lee & Jenn stopped by the house to check on our progress. Lee, who used to flip houses himself in Las Vegas, was able to give Chad some good ideas regarding the fixing up of the basement, which will help us a lot! Take a peek at the improvement the hardware adds to the cabinets!

After we spent the afternoon with family at my nephew's birthday party, Chad and I headed back to the house to put in a couple hours getting the second coat of paint on the living room walls. Chad also put a second coat of white paint on the ceiling while I did all the edging around the ceiling. We have a process for painting that works pretty good between the two of us!

Once finished, we set up the fan to blow all night and help dry the walls. As we can't open the windows due to the cold outside, the humidity from the paint can build up pretty fast. It helps to keep the fan blowing during the overnight. We went back to the house Sunday morning to check out the dried product, and it looks super! The color of the paint is growing on me now that the second coat is on the walls. The pictures show the color as I would like it to be...but when actually looking at the walls, the paint is a tick darker than in the pictures. Oh well...I am certain it will be great once we get the dark stain on the wood floors.

Chad also starting tearing up the rest of the old floor in the bathroom while I did a couple spots of touching up with the paint in the living room and kitchen. I also cleaned off the dusty fridge and vacuumed the kitchen and cabinets. We then did a little light cleaning and organizing around the house before we went home to watch some playoff football.

Our next steps will be waiting for our new counter top to be finished, and then we can get that installed, along with our sink and faucet. We also purchased light fixtures this weekend for the kitchen, hallway, and bathroom. We will wait to install those until we are finished with the work in those areas. We will also install the rest of the appliances and paint the trim that will go around the windows and floor in the kitchen. I need to paint the insides of our exterior doors and eventually Dad will get the screen doors installed as well. As much as we are going in and out with large equipment, it is just easier right now to only have one door to go through as opposed to two. We will also be moving along into the bathroom and the bedrooms to get those spaces completed. Keep checking back for more updates as further progress is made!