The Beer's

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Tiling Time

It's official, SOLD!

We are completely moved out,

our things are at our new home

being stored in our basement and

Brian and myself are rooming

with his parents for a while!

(thanks Tom and Mariane!)

And for those of you who've been inquiring

about my "baby bump"...... 22 weeks.

So let the tiling begin: Our good friends the Whiteis's

have been a great help at getting us started on tiling!

Amanda and Brian worked on the front

entryway together including the mud room,

1/2 bathroom, and laundry room.

Sydney was also a good help:)

And just because I wanted to have a part

in it and claim some glory too I scrubbed all

excess grout off and sealed this section!

(I should probably give the baby some credit

too since he or she spent just as many hours

scrubbing as I did;)

Now onto the master bathroom, Brian

started the shower, his own personal feat!

And here's Jim bringing in some reinforcement!

The boys get credit for their hard work in the shower....

While Amanda and I claim victory in the main bathroom....

(I can take partial credit, I didn't do NEAR as much work

as this lady but I promise I was on my hands and knees

laying tile too--someone has to run the camera!)

Here Amanda is getting us started on the "artsy"

mosaic we installed in the bathroom closet to use up

the broken scraps/pieces of tile.....

Us women are very "green"......

reduce, reuse, recycle!

Not bad for winging it, eh?!

Go Team Girls!

Believe it or not we didn't even set it all out

and make a pattern, we just started laying in pieces

and somehow got lucky that it turned out this good!

The final product (minus the sealer and grout!)

Brian continues to make great progress

with the shower!

He was impressed with Amanda and I's mosaic that

he was bound and determined to out-do us!

I was just happy we could recycle some more scrap!

The painter's started 3/1/12!

The ceiling in the great room is going to be

distressed bead board, here's a sample

of what it will look like!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

MoViNg right along!

Well, we sold our home in town and we close Feb 21,

so the moving has begun!

THANKS so much, Brian and I were again

graciously reminded how lucky we

are when the morning came to start hauling as

much as we could to the new house and

before we knew it our current home was empty

and our new home was full :)

We were blessed to have fantastic

helpers, family and friends.

Here, the work continues to make our NEW house our NEW HOME!

finishing the LAST pieces of sheetrock on the interior!

Our dependable cleaning lady, She's HIRED!

she even feeds us too!

I kept busy moving what I could while the boys
did the heavy duty work-- sheet rocking!

                         Sorry no progress pics along the way but here's
                                our FINISHED basement garage :)
                                 which will likely soon be FULL :(

And here's the beautiful artwork the

on the walls! (this was hired out)

master bedroom ceiling

master bathroom ceiling

"tree bark" texture on the walls
of the main living areas

"fudge" texture on ceilings of main
bathroom and kids rooms

And the basement gets fuller....

                           Here's the latest updates of the exterior;
                          ALMOST all done outside, just some soffit,
                      fascia and band boards.....and some landscaping!

                                We're not CRAZY about the
                       cream board and batten (vertical siding),
                          was hoping it would grow on me
                                     but not so much....
                        needless to say we may be painting
                                  the vertical cream siding
                            IF the stone pillars we eventually
                              put up don't help tone it down.