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....

All the pudding sanding,priming, and painting is done on the master bath walls .Have to paint the ceiling and the lil wild hair idea I had but its looking up! Look closely and you can see the X,O, and hearts on the textured stone I did instead of using tile molding. I'm going to add wood to the top and bottom of it, and paint it with a dark blue glaze thats transparent. In my mind it is going to rock!. Believe it or not most of the down stairs is painted blue. Its all painted a lil different but its mostly all blue. What can I say I love blue. Master bath has shinny silver colored facets so I bought this awesome looking very tall candlestick that was a rusty white, I striped it and painted it shinny silver. I also bought this metal hunter green stool...old one of course...and an old metal pink hamper. You guessed it I striped them and im going to paint them also. Hamper will go in laundry room but stool is going in my bath. I also bought this shinny metal bin to use as a hamper in my bath. I know what some of you are thinking....why buy old stuff and spend time refinishing it when you can buy new.....well....if you know me....you know i love a challenge and i love old stuff....also made better and last alot longer ....soooooooooo...thats why....call me crazy, but hey i never claimed to be sane...hehe....

Looks awesome don't it! I just love this bath. Can't wait till the master bath is done! This room is now complete, now off to another. These pics are the upstairs foyer. Cut outs are one for a closet door and other for attic access door. Pic of stairs is looking downstairs. This room is in between the two upstairs bedrooms and is about 10 1/2 ft long by 8 1/2 ft wide. I striped the bed I'm using for Randy and I's bed and then repainted it, was white now as you can see it's brown. Its going to be a queen size because I didn't want to fill the room with all bed, I know its an old one but it looks just awesome in the house. Plus its the bed I always wanted, reminds me of my days spent at the farm back home with my grandparents in Raceland, Louisiana.
We took yesterday off to have fun at the lake. Last pics are of boys goofing off but having fun.

This is the master bath. I completed all the wall tile, and grouted it. Boys have puttied all the walls and the celing. They sanded it and re puttied for 2nd time. Soon we shall start painting. I know tile looks a lil weird on last 3 rows, but my wild haired ideas keep kicking in....i think it will look great when finished.Ceiling is completed all but the paint, Man was that ever hard. I think we put to much plaster..oh well....its done so we moving on. Oh by the way don't I have some pretty boys?...lol...Look out girls!

Medicine cabinet is stained, clear coated,mirrors installed and now hung, I cut peaces of plastic leveler blind ( this is what kinda blinds i hung in both baths ) to make the lil frames around them....came out pretty good....ain't I thrifty....lol.......tiles are grouted and molding around them are also done. Floors repaired, and extension of tub is painted and clear coated I made a step to help with entering and exiting the tub I need to attache it...only other thing left in this bath is the counter top and installation of the sink. This will take at least 7 days more because it takes 7 days for the overlay to cure before I can install the sink....hopefully we shall have it installed in the nest two weeks. I did the overlay tonight but it has to dry now....will put top coat on at 1 am...yea I know work work work...almost looks like i finger painted one end but other side looks awesome! I also cut out the molding for the counter top. My curtains are down again so I didn't stain them when I clear coated the logs, kinda hard to see them but they go great with everything. I found some fine gold tool, shimmering and wrapped it around the shower bar for a curtain, then hung some beads on twine....turned out pretty nice even the kids like it....that's a shock. I also added a live plant on top of the shower cabinet. I'll send a final picture when its all done.












































































OK now I added 2 more top coats to the counter top, and the molding I cut...Was a lil plain to me so I added gold webbing. I think it rocks! What do you think?

We have now built the bath vanity, all but the counter top. Now you can really see how small this bath is, there's 2 foot between the tub and vanity. But like I said how much room do you need there anyway. In all the construction 5 floor tiles were broken, those need to be replaced and a few lil touch up things, hang the cabinet doors and counter top with backdrop tiles then this room is done! Already have the blinds and curtains up, rugs out....I hurt my back working to much I guess I am on bed rest so I have the pointing finger job...lol...everyone else wants my job! We also started the master bath and bedroom....Wyatt is putting the putty in the master bedroom and you can see the bath in background. I love the mirror medicine cabinet. Its long and also serves as a full length mirror. Aaron is putting up sheet rock in the kitchen using a Sheetrock installer for lack of a education of the name of it....lol...Last pic is the kitchen walls against the master bedroom to the right. The buffet looks so small there all by itself.

Ok I added a few things so I'm adding it to this blog...I installed the tile for the backdrop on the sink ....finished the stain on the tub area and painted and top coated all the cabinets...so now its grout the backdrop and the floor tiles that were broken install counter top and hang the medicine cabinet I made and were done! Yay! Well with this room...We getting there....just a wee bit slow

Wow its been a month since I posted.....got a few more things done now. I built the vanity base myself then Aaron, Wyatt, and Blake helped with the rest. Was heavy to raise to install but we did it. I also stained the logs in this room, ck out the painting and writing on the walls behind the tub....lol....needed some place to test paint. Like I said in the last blog the wood was old and from the cabinets from the house that I was raised in, so I worked around the doors more less. This room is so much smaller than I expected but I had to build the cabinets a certain size for the sink to fit, and now I had to raise the tub because of the p-trap being left out so steps to get into tub makes it even smaller. I built the shower base, then Randy came in off a Kentucky job for Mothers Day weekend and helped me install the shower, he had to leave before the plumbing was done so on Monday I started the plumbing....wow what a job that turned out to be! We had bought the wrong kind of glue sooooooooo every time I turned on the water I had a leak! Wasn't till the third leak I went to the Do It Center and they told me was the wrong glue...uggg...Thanks to Steve we got it all figured out now...Thanks again Steve. Now all the piping is in and shower works great! Molding is on, Randy framed the closet and Aaron and I finished it....looks good eh? All I have left to do is install the doors after I clear coat them and guest bath will be done! Yay! oops and make the counter top.....I'm doing a concrete overlay.....another new thing to me but my brother Craig is talking me thru this one over the phone...hehe...I'm gonna be a house builder yet! Get NO ideas I'm NOT going to do this again if I can help it! Last pic Wyatt and Blake are in the cabinet sticking their hands out...guess its bigger than I thought. Last pic Aaron is pretending to nail them in the cabinet....see they do have some fun while working.

Grouted the guest bath today and started the molding....what a challenge...this room is a lot smaller than we wanted it but the way we calculated was with the logs on outer edge and they are inside and about 6 inch's wasted per side per room so the rooms are smaller than we expected....but hey its a bathroom how much room do you really need? Check out my first cabinet I built! All by myself to! No plans just built it...neat eh? All the cabinets for this bath will be made with some of the wood that was taken from the original cabinets that were made for the house I was raised in, in Louisiana made by Chester Kreamer. Wood was real stuff then not the cheap stuff they make today. All I did was cut it, strip it, sand it, and re stain it.....boy let me tell ya it was work cause it had 35 years of crud on it. The door's are the only thing I left in tack, everything else was remade to my room needs. See Dad it pays to save some things...hehe...Thanks again! Blake and Wyatt helped me hang this cabinet to the wall, but I made it all by myself, had to paint the sides of the doors like that so I could hide the marks of the original handles and hindges but it looks ok I guess. I installed the tiolet with very little help everyone's giving up been so long now since we started this project. Vanity is next...uggggg

Figures the first room completed would be a working kind of room...lol...Here is the laundry just about finished I have 2 pc's of molding left to put on I screwed up the one pc I had grrrrrr cut it at the right angle but backwards....don't ya love the copper accent on the dryer vent pipe? Looks awesome but the pic don't really look as well as it does in person...first pic is with copper then 2nd pic is both washer n dryer with new lil roll away cabinet in between...Oh and I chinked the top log and added a shelf where I can hang clothes coming out of the dryer temporally....so this room is completed! (well OK I need to add a cabinet to hide the water pipes on the hot water heater ) last pic is regular dryer pipe without copper I think it looks so much better with copper...gonna look really old soon and that's the look I'm looking for.....bathroom is looking up I painted it all and have tiled it but I need to grout it still... Light/vent has been installed in guest bath and I need to add molding....last pic is master bath we just did the ceiling sheet rock today...work work work....