Day 89 May 14

Oh it’s getting exciting around here!! Considering I’m easily excitable, I wouldn’t get your hopes up. It’s not done yet but it’s starting to look it when we put some finishing touches up. During the day I mainly did things around the house, but I did get to planting my wild flower seeds. As usual, when David bought the flowers he got a little excited and purchased 5 pounds of seeds. After I had mixed some of the seeds with sand and spread them in the area David had tilled, there were still 2 more pounds left! Not a big deal, I’m sure we can find more spots to rake up the soil and spread the glory.

When David came home we got to working on the mudroom ceiling again. Just as we predicted, we’re about two boards short, but it’s looking good so far :o) Then we started laying out trim to assess what we could use and where we may need some more. Not all the existing trim would work because at least three walls had baseboard heaters on them so the trim was chopped up. But this was the part where I started to get excited! I couldn’t believe how such a simple thing like trim around the floor could make the room look so polished off, but it did! After we laid out everything, it looks like we won’t need any more trim for the baseboards. We actually do have three walls that are too long for any piece, but we figured we’ll piece together two boards for those walls and see how it turns out. In the end if we don’t like how it looks, we can always come back later and switch it out with the proper length. Everything is laid out but we’re waiting to install the boards until we can get our hands on a finish nailer. David has his stapler/nailer we used for the mudroom ceiling, but I’m not a fan of how much it nicks up the wood. I’m sure investing in a finish nailer would be well worth it and definitely come in handy for future projects.

David then went to work on the trim around our skylight windows in the kitchen. The previous stuff was poorly designed with the corners coming together at a 90 degree angle instead of 45. So to improve the aesthetics of it, David was adamant to do it right. He made some cuts and by that time it was well past dark so he called it a night.