Slow and steady!

That pretty much sums up our progress on the house since Nathan has been born. Lately we've been able to get a bit more done as Nathan's been going to bed earlier in the evenings and is getting into a better routine during the day.


Today I finally got a coat of paint on our closet. It's kind of depressing painting walls white, as there isn't much of a difference between the primer and the finished product. Oh well, I know it's done. Tonight we'll move our dressers in there with our temporary racks and then we're set to install the closet doors. Yay!

Peter has been diligently working on our kitchen cupboards. Until a month or so ago I had one drawer (unfinished) on sliders that didn't work. The upper cupboards also had no finish on them. Right now here is where we stand (please forgive the picture colouring - I'm not very good with this SLR camera):


I now have eight drawers. Six of them are completely varathaned and filled with stuff. The other two are filled but will need to be taken out and finished at some point. The first set of sliders we bought were terrible, so we've replaced 6 of the sliders so far with better ones. In the above picture you can see that Peter has made some fronts for the drawers. All the fronts are now stained and two of them are all varathaned as well. They will look so nice once they're attached! We bought brushed nickel drawer pulls.


Here is our upper cupboards all cleaned out with 2 coats of stain on the face frames. We still obviously need shelves in the ones on the left. Also, on the left-hand end of the run of cupboards Peter made and installed his first raised panel (essentially a cupboard door that is fixed in place). I really can't wait to get the varathane on these cupboards so I can put stuff back. My kitchen table and counters are full!


Peter has the doors for this cabinet (under the sink) all made, but they have to be sanded, stained, and finished before we can attach the hinges and install them. It's such a long process! Peter has a goal to have all the bottom drawers and doors on before Nathan starts crawling (for obvious reasons).

So, next on the docket will be to varathane the upper cupboards, install our closet doors, varathane the drawer fronts and install them. Peter also has a few more cupboard doors on the go. It's so nice to see progress again!