Wow, what a weekend. The last 3 days have accomplished more than I thought possible. Four of five of my prayer requests were answered in just 48 hours.
Friday afternoon we barely squeaked into the granite shop for my mom to sneak a peak at the original cream colored (crema marfil – going to look a lot like this) marble remnant I had seen a few weeks ago. We took our floor tile this time and it was a perfect match. I felt really good about it.
Dani stopped by Friday and was a gem and took my inspiration picture and helped me pick out colors from that and the floor and shower tile. I would be a good blogger and post a picture of this but I’m trying to sneak this post in before the morning.
Friday at lunch I picked out and bought our carpet. This is truly a miracle because I picked out a carpet AND color BY MYSELF in all of about 10 minutes. It was the easiest purchase of this entire addition.
Saturday the guys came back to do round two of the mud and when they were finished, had a little surprise for me. “Can we come back tomorrow and sand?” Uh…..sure. If you recall, we weren’t expecting sanding until Monday, maybe even Tuesday. As soon as Scott got home we kicked it into high gear and emptied our two bedrooms, bought some plastic and tape and went to town. I think at one point I was putting plastic over plastic, just to be sure.
Saturday night we had everything taped down and spent the night at my parents. Scott was working this morning so we had to have it all ready for them to show up at noon. The girls and I went to church and then spent the afternoon at my mom’s, all the while wondering how much cleaning we’d be doing this evening. Either way, I was so happy that they were able to do it today since tomorrow I’ll be at the office and not home until 6 and then wanting to crawl back in bed by 8. Well, I didn’t have too much to worry about because our finishing crew apparently had some sort of vacuum on their sander and left almost no dust behind. It was a super good thing that we covered in our rooms and taped off the hallway, but beyond that, you wouldn’t have even known anything had happened. And even in the rooms, it was just a light dusting. I was SO, SO grateful. The bad news is I had taken so much stuff down in preparation that I had to really hustle to get the house back in order tonight. But not too much complaining. As they say, better safe than sorry.
Our washer is still not fixed but honestly, it was quite a blessing for my mom to take on ALL our laundry this weekend. I think she must have washed 8 or 9 loads so far. I completely enjoyed the smell of home and putting away unwrinkled clothes this evening.
So between getting all the big decisions out of the way, getting this huge hurdle of the walls out of the way and all the clean laundry, I have to say I feel so FREE this evening. I really feel like we’re out of the woods with this addition and now everything is just tying together loose ends.
As for a loose upcoming schedule:
- Doors, trimming and paint go up first of this week.
- Vanity goes in after that
- Next week will be the tile, countertop and carpet!
We’re on the home stretch!
I’ll do a more detailed post with pictures of the room and paint picks soon. I’m getting really excited about all the finishing touches!