Feeling more like our home

The library is done and the books are on the shelves.

The North side of the library looks like this.

We have been spending a lot of time sorting through boxes and trying to get stuff put away. We are moved in and have a temporary Master bedroom set up in the Gameroom until we can get ours done.

This is the living room. We haven't figured out curtains yet and there is not much on the walls but it is looking more like home.

Chris was working on enclosing the fridge using old doors. This door we painted the glass with chalk paint.

The other side of the fridge has a door with tin where the glass used to be.

Then today Chris figured out what he wanted to use for the banister going up the stairs...

I still have to stain and seal everything but I think it looks great.

Chris and Hunter were able to get the upstairs railing up too

It was an old porch railing that Hunter brought home from work out of the dumpster so it was free! They had to bend it to get the curve right and that took some work.

This is our bed in the gameroom for now.

These are the stairs on the master bedroom side. The slabs of wood came from a tree that fell at my parents house. The tree was a pin oak that the trunk measured 44 inches across. These were milled from the limbs of the tree. A friend of my parents had a mill and he did the work for $50. They have been stained and sealed now. I will probably not update as much because of the holidays. I am sure we will work on it still a bit but not enough to write about for awhile.

starting the sorting and moving

The bathroom got a towel rack made out of some of the molding off of a Chevy Apache. You see Chris had a 1959 Chevy Apache Longbed on a 4x4 frame...we was very sad when we had to sell it before Hannah was born. We bought this and another piece of trim from one, just in case he ended up with one again.

This is the projector screen when it is rolled down. We were able to watch the World Series on it.

Starting to look like a home...

This is the bathroom off of the gameroom. When we bought the shower unit it had doors. On the way home from the auction those doors broke. Little did we know that finding replacement doors would cost around $800. So, we have been looking online for some sort of replacement out of recycled materials. We came across a picture of one stationary exterior door used with a shower curtain. We are still figuring out how to make that work out correctly but we are leaning towards something like that.

The hallway going up to the master bedroom is painted. It is the same blue/grey that the library is. The windows were tricky to trim on that radius wall.

The main bathroom got a set of lockers added to it because we needed some sort of storage in there. We got them from Chris' Dad when he moved. They were in his garage before this. We cleaned them up and sprayed them with a flat black paint.

This is Hannah's room which is in the North bin. She wanted chair rail. We have to go pick up her bedroom set from my Grandma's house. She will inherit a bedroom set that she has admired since she was little.

This is Abi's room. It is the other half of the same grain bin. She inherited the bedroom set that came from my great Grandmother. There is another dresser that goes with it but I am currently using it so it will be moved at a later date.

We went to an auction last weekend and got these knobs for the kitchen cabinets. There was a small bucket of them that we paid $10 for an there was enough for the cabinets. They are old glass knobs.

We went to another auction this past weekend and bought a truckload of old barn wood for $25. Chris used it to enclose the island in the kitchen. The tin that was added came from a building that was being torn down in Appleton City, MO. The building had been the old newspaper building I believe. We have some other tin from the same building but we haven't decided where or if we are going to use it yet. The backside of the island is open. So the total for this island was about $60. We bought the table at an online auction for $35 and then the cost of the barn wood. The tin was free.

Chris is amazingly talented when it comes to picking up random things and making something beautiful out of them.

My mom and I have been working on cleaning up everything and trying to get out as much of the non-necessary stuff out.

The last rooms are being painted...

This is a picture of the master bedroom. We got a first coat of paint on it. The master bath also has one coat and the closets have two coats. The ceiling is not done in the master bedroom. I think we will probably wait until the end to finish it because we want to get as much of the rest of the house  as done as we can. The bedroom is a light yellow color. The upstairs bathroom is a dark grey.

The columns are up now! Chris made a top for all of them and put them on each of the corners of the grain bin that were exposed. He also used two of them to the entrance of the hallway. I ended up painting them and then distressing them. Some of them were already white so that was the logical thing to do.

The columns going in to the hallway.

The bedroom is done and we hung some curtains but we haven't moved in the furniture yet.

The closets that are done all have shelves in them now. We have moved a few things in just to give us more room where we are now. The stairs on the North side are done. They have to be stained. We ended up getting the wood to do them at the auction that we went to. Chris figured out that we ended up spending $160 on material for the stairs and we have wood that we will also be using on the ceiling of the master bedroom.

more auctions and triming rooms out

We were able to go to another building material auction ad we bought some things from on online auction too. We bought 6 of these old columns for $10 a piece. Chris is going to use them to edge out the entrances in the kitchen and library...and who knows what he will do with the extra ones!

My mom got this cool little table at an estate sale. The projector on top of it we bought at an online auction for $80 ad we also bought a huge retractable screen for $75. The screen is 135 inches long!

This desk we bought at an online auction for $26 it is solid wood and came from the old University Club of Kansas City.

These chairs Hunter got from his work. There were 8 of them that had been thrown in the trash. They have leather seats and are barstool height. Now we are thinking of adding a bar to our island in the kitchen!

My mom and I restained the bookshelves it the library. We have one left to do.

The gameroom bathroom has the toilet and shower hooked up. We bought a different sink for this bathroom because we saw it at the auction and loved it. We paid $75 for it.

Abi's lights trimmed out in her room.

The baseboard and closet doors are installed. The windows still have to be trimmed upstairs and we have been thinking about adding a chair rail.

The upstairs bathroom is done.

Hannah's room is trimmed out except for the windows. Next we have to work on finishing the loft area upstairs.

The kitchen backsplash is installed and grouted. Chris hooked up the appliances last night.

Hunter has added some other things to the main bathroom. This is the toilet paper holder.

The truck grill over the shower. This we think came from a 1940's Ford truck. Hunter found it at work too. Along with the gas handle that holds the toilet paper.

The bottlecaps are set and have been coated in resin. This sink has to be hooked up still but the rest of the bathroom is functional.

The main bathroom has a lot going on in it but I love it. So now we have 3 working bathrooms in our new house and the kitchen is very close to being done too. The master bedroom is the room that is the farthest from being done. The drywall is not finished yet and the wood ceiling will take some time to complete. We have just been so excited to get things done that we have been working on that stuff instead of our room. Chris is supposed to get a few days off this next week so things seem to be going pretty quickly. There is just so much little stuff left to do.