Finishing touches

As of this moment, all of the major renovations are just about finished!

This weekend in pictures:

Installed a new ceiling fan in the living room (more difficult than it sounds)

Replaced baseboard trim (was more of a project than it sounds, because the trim we had was very dirty, but at this point I didn’t want the added expense and effort of buying, cutting, angling, and staining new trim). For the record, Feed-N-Wax worked wonders for my trim and cabinets:

Installed rubber trim on the cabinets (easy!)

We also replaced all of the outlet/switch covers, but didn’t take photos, because I’m sure you can picture the difference.

I also discovered that my cabinet handles--which I was so excited to replace—are a custom size, which means I’d have to spend a fortune to replace my handles. Which left me with using the ones I have. Which entailed a product called Brasso, and lots of scrubbing:

Here you can see the handles after and before cleaning! Big difference!

Didn’t spend tooooo much this weekend, but I also returned a lot of stuff.

-returned a bunch of wall tile, because we decided to do a rubber trim in the bathroom in the interest of Being Done…-$53.43

-returned some leftover rubber wall base trim that we didn’t need in the kitchen…-$5.64

-returned the cabinet handles I can’t use… –$44.72

-bought rubber base trim, an access panel, drawer slides, wall trim adhesive, Feed-N-Wax for cleaning the wood baseboard trim, cleanser, Brasso, wood putty, Murphy’s Oil Soap, pole sockets, wallplates, 2 in finish nails for putting the trim back on the walls, scrubber, scour pads, breaker…$90.35

-more rubber wall base trim, a mop refill, steel wool, straight edge for when I touch up some paint, putty knife, Windex…$23.66 (we had $9 in store credit which this price doesn’t include)

-returned an angle grinder, a ceramic file, and a tile cutting blade (since we’re not doing a tile trim anymore…)… –$88.74

=====$$$8368.64

Some flowers that are sprouting at the front of the house

What we still have/want to do (the necessities in red):

-new front steps

-repair deck

-fix plumbing

-fix electrical issues

-fix crack in foundation

-lots and lots of landscaping

-fix broken shower

-get appliances hooked up/plumbed in

-pressure wash siding

-paint exterior trim

-put up a fence around perimeter of yard

-pave driveway

-install a more efficient heating system

-new doors

-new countertops and backsplash

-shrubs in front of the house to replace the ones my dad chopped down

-buy washer and dryer

-get a shed

-plumb in bathroom sink

-hang up bathroom mirror

So…yeah, let’s put it this way: it’s not like this blog is going to be relegated to some dark dusty corner of the internet from lack of home improvements to talk about…