The Almost Finished Hole!!

Today was my first official day of Spring Break. No, I wasn’t on a beach getting a tan, I was at Lowes; for about three hours! There I priced appliances, flooring, and cabinets! Not sure if we will be getting all of our materials’ from there because I am going to take the estimates that I got today and compare it to other companies tomorrow. I just want to make sure that Clayton and I are getting the best deal along with the biggest bang for our buck! While I was there pricing cabinets they gave me a draw up of what our kitchen would look like with the new cabinets along with the HOLE in the wall is so neat looking; I just love it! !!

Yes, Yes, Yes! The hole in the kitchen wall was my idea!!! And it just THRILLS me that Clayton fell in love with my idea as much as I did.:) Not everyone thought that it was a good idea…but in the end it was something that we both wanted and liked. When we left on Sunday night the studs were still in the wall and needed to still be removed. Today, Patrick came over to help us remove the three studs along with help us prepare for the walls to be painted. The boys (Clayton, Patrick and Clayton’s dad, GW) removed the studs but also ran into a few minor electrical issues so while they handled that I tapped off the bedrooms so that we could be ready to paint!

Sounds super easy putting tape around the trim work in each rooms…well….it wasn’t a problem until I got to the master bedroom. The walls are currently painted in PURPLE stripes……UGH!! I was so sick and tired of looking at purple by the end of the night!! All I could think about while I was tapping the bedroom was BARNEY! ! It made me recall some of the old Barney VHS’s I had as a child along with some of the songs that he sang…. “I love you, you love me …”

At the end of the night Asher and Katie came over to check the house out and while he was there we had him answer a few questions that we had concerning flooring (He's a professional tiler <--if that's even a word). Not only did Asher answer the questions we had but he also broke AND fixed the back door! The door didn't necessarily break but the newly installed door knob came OFF. The washer that locked the door knob on to the plate somehow came off and we just had to secure it back on there. It was TRUELY a blessing that this happened!! Lol:)

After everyone had left Clayton and I, looked around at the drywall dust on the ground, peeled back flooring, and the mess of tools around us and smiled! Nothing in life is easy but at the end the reward is always worth the effort put into it! It’s not going to be smooth sailing from here on but, having the support of each other, family and friends to back us is what we are going to use to make it all come together.