Insulating the closet, bedroom and den

Around the first week of March, we decided to start in the closet, bedroom, den area.  Dave finished the wiring in those three rooms.  The closet is back where you see the four light bulbs hanging down. 

 Then the two of us worked together and got the insulation hung in about 2-3 days. You'll notice he is wearing a hat and coat.  It was cold up there when we were working on those rooms. 

 This is our bedroom, the closet is through the door below. 

 The reason we hung insulation on the interior walls in the bedroom is for sound, more than anything else. You don't usually hang insulation on interior walls.  Above where it is going every other direction is because it was easier to hang that way due to the outlets and wiring.  You would not do that on an exterior wall, such as below.

 Above still the bedroom.  We are going to have sconce lights on the sides of the window in the bedroom.

 

And this is the den.  The insulation is hung and we put osb on the wall where the fireplace will go.  Osb is wood chips glued together.  We hang it on the wall when we feel like we might need something a bit sturdier than just studs.  For example, we are probably going to have a mantle on this wall and a tv.  It's easier to hang those items with osb as a backing, then we will not be limited to where a stud is located. 

 I have some catching up to do on this blog, but this is enough for today!

Cindy

Back at it...finishing the last room in the basement

I haven't posted in awhile because we haven't been doing much to the House on Hilltop Farm except stuffing it full from the other house.  I can't remember if I told you, but our theory was to live in one room in the basement and take everything else from the other house and put it upstairs in the new house.  Well....just how are we going to work on building upstairs if we have a bunch of stuff in our way?  So, we are still moving our stuff from the other house,

but we are trying to cram it all in the basement of our new house, except for the part we are living in.  It's not working out too well.  {sigh}

We do have one more room to finish in the basement, and we have finally started on it.  Thing is, it's not really a "room" per se'.  It's the area you walk into when you are walking down the stairs, from the upstairs.  It has a lot of doors that lead to all of the other rooms in the basement.

There was discussion between drywall or osb for the walls.  OSB won.

This corner above is going to get a closet.   For now it will hold Dave's work clothes, hunting clothes, work boots, etc.  Later...who knows.

Behind this door to the right is a pantry.  It held all of Dave's tools for working in the basement, but now that we're down to one room, and we need the space, he's cleaned it out and I'm using it for overflow.

So here we are folks....back at it!

Cindy

Craft room, Bathroom, osb, and yard

Go get a cup of coffee, or tea, this is a long one!

In the last couple of months, whenever I haven't been painting, tileing, mudding drywall, working in the yard, etc., I've been working on setting up a craft room. I've never had a craft room. Oh, I claimed I had a craft room. In it was a table, a sewing machine, and a computer w/desk. No shelves, and no place to store supplies. Some supplies were in the basement or in closets around the house. But none in the actual 'craft' room.
So, I've emptied these sturdy ex-library shelves that have been in our basement in town for years, and moved them to our new house. Dave got them at a school auction and they've had books on them in our basement. My books. Cook books, craft books, reading material, gardening books, etc. I took all of the books off and boxed them up. Some will be put in garage sale, some I'll keep. But in our new house I want an area in my kitchen for cook books, an area upstairs for novels, and an area in the den for whatever other books I think I need ;-) In the craft room, will be craft-type books.

So, I brought the shelves in, and loaded them up. All of this stuff is a collection of material, wool, yarn etc. Most of the material has been gathered from garage sales that I've been going to for years and years.

Then....Dave's Mom, a crafter, gave me a lot of her craft stuff when she moved. Some of it very cute and useful.

But I was out of room and still wasn't finished with my own craft stuff.

This is a lab table (from a school auction) and I had 'stuff' on it.

Then, I got this dresser of baskets at an auction (see a trend here - we rarely buy anything new or for full price)

and Dave trash picked this bakers rack. The wood on it is in bad shape, but I washed it all down and got an idea.

Take everything off of the lab table, move it, and load up the bakers rack and basket dresser.

CUTE!

And on Wednesday, my cousin Gloria came over and helped me move the furniture and fix up the craft room. She said I need to take all of the wool I've been collecting (at garage sales, coats, sweaters, suit jackets) and put them in clear storage boxes. I freed up two whole shelving units by using the bakers rack, dresser, and storage boxes.

We emptied off the lab table and moved it

and did an imitation with boxes of how I want to set up the room. The boxes two the right are where my sewing machine will go, the boxes to the left are where a table will go.

I think it's gonna work. In the meantime, I keep plugging away. And thanks Gloria! I really appreciated your help.

Ok enough about that....let's talk about o.s.b. Have you heard of it? You have if you have followed this blog. Have you heard about Hurricane Isaac? Apparently Isaac is going to hit Florida. So people are using osb to board up their homes.....as I type they are boarding their homes.

I use osb to write love notes to my man, or notes about our house, but we also use it in the construction process. And when there is a hurricane coming, and people are using up osb, the price triples. So, instead of it being $6.00 a sheet, it's now $18.00 a sheet.

It's the one price that isn't getting blamed on the drought. Quite the opposite, actually. Not good for us construction people. But here's my question. Why do people take advantage of others during disasters? I bet you if the hurricane hits, and people lose power, the price of generators will triple.

Bathroom update......I hear what you all are saying about putting a table or something beside that vanity (in the last post) to hold curling irons and what not. The problem is, it's very hard to put a table on either side of it, because the plumbing is right in the center of the wall for the vanity. So there really isn't room for a table. I actually bought this buffet piece of furniture at a garage sale, for $40.00, to turn into a vanity/sink area.

But it will take longer, and at this point, I JUST WANT IT DONE. We have set a goal to be moved in by the first of October. I'll save that information and how we came up with that for another post.

I've decided for the time being that I think this vanity would look nice in our bathroom, only we have room for a wider one, so it will have a set of drawers on the left side too.

I especially like the sink they put with it. Don't know why, I just do. We haven't bought it yet, this is a picture I took at the store.

Here are the pics of the painted walls and lighting.

Washer and dryer area above...didn't have a shade on the light fixture at the time, but there is now.

Bathroom vanity area. (huge ceiling fan because I am ALWAYS hot! augh!)

aaahhhemmmmm.....toilet area!

Remember this....the whole front yard getting torn up and raised to the level of the house...

The grass is growing now. (this pic taken from the street, in my car)

And we have been tiling all week.

Today we will grout the tile

and we'll be moving on to the trim this week!

That's all for now!

Cindy