Installed most of the kitchen floor tonight,didn't get much else done, had to many other things to do. The area of the walls that's not painted in where the lower cabinets go, so I didn't waste time painting it. Slowly working my way to a finish!

Ceiling in kitchen was textured tonight by Blake, Wyatt and I with a slight blue tint, its still a lil wet in first pic second one is dry, still have to add the crown molding to. Notice the lights in the cabinets, we installed them yesterday. Looks great at night! Kitchen needs a lil chinking and the rest of the floors installed and grouted then we can install the rest of the cabinets, and the counter top. Then this room is finished.I am hoping to make my deadline for August 8th. School starts the 9th so I want to be finished downstairs before then. Other than the kitchen I have 2 rooms to do. One to sand and paint other I have to sheet rock then putty sand and paint. Gonna be a tight deadline but maybe I can do it.

I am building this desk in our room for my computer/office area. I bought the draws and added a half circle 4 tier shelf I also bought at Welborn Cabinets, the top, side and braces and voila! You really can't see me in the picture but i'm there...lol...all I have to add is the slide out drawer for my keyboard below the top. I also tiled the kitchen counter in the corner next to the stove.it is draws I bought from Welborn, Grouted it and now have to add a lil molding. Added texture with paint to walls in the kitchen,then added a white glaze to calm down the bright blue. Hung the upper cabinets bought from Welborn also, but have to finish the floor to install the lower cabinets. Painted the side kitchen window and stained all kitchen logs. We getting there!

Finished the medicine cabinet and installed it....Love the mirrors! They were just another one of my wild hairs.The doors are made from the same wood the other was made from, the cabinets from the house I was raised in. This stuff is the real McCoy, not that cheap crap from the lumber yard now days! Two side cabinets open sideways and the center one lifts up....another wild hair...I have a lot of those lately. Installed the toilet and the two lower cabinet doors. Also made the door for the tall cabinet. Bought the frame from Wellborn Cabinets and added the rest. Now all i need is the hardware to finish making the draws. Tub still not ready, so that's on hold...no problem tho I have plenty to do. Counter top is cut out and maybe soon I can do the concrete overlay.Also last pic is of cabinet I found at Wellborn and I added a Masonic tile top, great to store toilet paper.

Aaron and Blake have textured our bedroom ceiling and then did a second coat later that night It looks great so today I painted it and my bedroom window. Wyatt sanded then stained my outside bedroom door, later I clear coated it. Blake clear coated the bedroom door I stained last night. I grouted the bathroom floor went to install the toilet and the tank has a crack in the finish on the inside of the tank. It was manufactured that way, so now I have to drive back to Anniston ....ugggg...only thing left in the bath is the toilet, tub, chinking, and medicine cabinet doors.Oops and I have to install a door....geeeeze forgot to get one....well I have to go to Lowes anyway sooooooo,,,,lol...Wyatt and I also installed some of the kitchen tile....have to grout it before I can finish rest of floor because I have to much stuff in my way! Like fridge, stove, cabinets...tools, etc. etc.....It's looking like down stairs will be just about complete before school starts....Yay!

Ok here is the finished stairway thingy I created. Looks so cool to! I will add some kind of fabric to the back to make it stand out from the stairs, but not sure what yet. Still to dusty to add yet tho, because we still sanding sheet rock in that room....uggggggg....soon it will all be done...( I think I say that in my sleep...lol ) Both of these are actually doors to cover the storage area under the stairs cool huh?

I also finished chinking the kitchen so I can now do the floors to get the appliances out of the living room. Look close to see the great find I got for the stairway. I wanted a tree there but we finished the sheet rock before I remembered, so it was left out. This will take its lace....no worry it's been vacant for over a year. Aaron texture painted my bedroom ceiling, but it will need a second coat tomorrow...uggg...I finished the tile backdrop in the master bath and also did the textured stone x/s and o's with hearts. This will be painted in the morning. Window seal has been painted and sealed. I also hung my towel racks. This bathroom is almost complete.

I guess I better clear a few things up on my painting colors....I have had a few emails about why everything is blue.Don't get me wrong I love the feedback! But..... I have mentioned blue is my favorite color....Even though its all blue and all the same 4 blues. It's different techniques in each room. I have included a few close up pics of each room so you can see it really is different. The living room/hall is brown like the underneath of the stairs. yes it may or may not be same technique but hey its all in one room really. Aaron loves all the rooms so guess what...he wants blue to...lol...upstairs will be way different. Wyatt's room is Auburn colors again blue ( different blue )...lol...and orange. Blake's room...LSU purple and yellow, and the foyer antique lace with army green.

See not all the same looking but all blue...so now that we have cleared that up.....lol...Look what I did in the master bedroom for a closet/entertainment center. I haven't finished it yet but its framed only need to add the doors...which I have to make. This other thing I made goes under the stairway. Looks funny but I know when its done it will be fabulous! I used the wine holder material from a cabinet shop and pieced it together, not to hard just a pain to get it all together after I cut it. Was in small sections of 1 1/2' x 2'. I am going to make a smaller one for ontop the freezer section tonight. New freezer Randy bought this past week....don't work at all Lowes is delivering a new one today...ugggggg....the things I go thru....

All the molding is up, Blake and I have installed the cabinet vanity and closet. Now I have to install the doors, cut out the counter top and do the concrete overlay on it just like I did the other but I am going to do white with a lil blue this time. I still have to put up the back splash tile and molding, make the medicine cabinet, and install the light.

Again Blake my best worker, and I made this closet/entertainment center for Randy and I's bedroom. I also painted the bedroom with the primer last night and dark blue paint tonight, its dark but it will be ligter when I add the next 2 colors I also stained the logs where the closet will be. Others will be stained later. Stain smell got to me and I was very sick, so I took the most of the rest of the day off. But before I laid it down for the night I painted under the stairway, because last night I also primed it. After it dried I added white rag rolled paint with a glaze tint. The floor has been done in here a while, I still have to add the molding here.This closet/free space is almost done. This is where we are putting the stand up freezer, and i guess storage. It looks a lil dark but really looks nice in person. I'm going to add a lil wall but not sure where to start till I get the freezer in.

Now this room rocks! I love it more than the other bath. I think the cabinet looks a lil big, but hey it fit perfect there. The cabinets in this bath were bought.For the reason being they were from a cabinet shop here in the county and made here in the good ol USA. But mostly because they were such a great price I couldn't make them for less. Their stained already close enough to my pecan color and all real wood! Couldn't beat that less labor for me! All that's left is to install the vanity cabinet/closet,sink, molding, and grout the part of the floor that I didn't finish.

Now I have finished painting the translucent blue on the textured stone area. I think it looks awesome! Molding has been cut, stained, clear coated and installed. I was finished painting the walls, but as I looked it over...and over...I just thought it looked to ummmmm plain...i know what your thinking why can't she just be normal...lol...i was never accused of being normal either....soooooooooo i took white paint and added glaze and gold shimmers and ragged it over the blue. It looks wonderful! Surprised myself. Look close to see the white glaze not sure you can see shimmers on these pics....Ceiling is now painted...DON'T EVER let anyone tell you its easier to texture a ceiling thick! It's not!, and also it's a monster to paint! But it does look good.I knew walls would look awesome....What do you think....I need feedback here people! I still have a bit of work to do in here. Upper molding needs to be stained and installed, counter top/closet needs to be built. Then I will grout the floor........getting there....