Auctions and heat

These past few weeks have been hot around here. With a daily temperature around 90and a heat index around 100 it is tough to want to do much. That being said, I wanted to talk about the house and how energy efficient it already is. The downstairs of the house is approximately 2200 square feet. We have one 110volt 5000BTU window air conditioning unit in a window. The average inside temperature runs about 81 on these 90 + days. The inside of the 600 square foot trailer we are living in with three of the same air conditioners running....is 85. The trailer is from 1994 and we put newer windows and doors in it and it still gets that hot in here. Some days I go find things to work on in the house because it is actually cooler in there!

This last week we went to a couple of auctions. the first auction we went to we really didn't get anything. The second one we went to...we filled a 16 foot trailer and had to leave behind about 2 of the same trailers full of stuff. We spent a grand total of $86 with tax at the second auction.

All this trim we paid $25 for.

All this trim we paid $15 for.

We paid $20 and got 4 solid oak doors and 3 bi-fold oak doors.

We paid $5 for all these pieces of counter top. We bought one of them for my mom.

This is all that we could fit on the trailer to take home. We did not have a way to come back for the rest and it took us 4 hours to sort through and load all of this.

We have been putting some finishing touches on a few of the rooms. Chris and I both are getting overwhelmed with all the work to be done still so we decided to work on finishing a few of the rooms to make it feel more like we are making headway.

The trim is up and I am working on painting and then touch up paint. We have crown molding to put up in here. It is painted but we ran out of time this weekend to get it up.

This bedroom is DONE. ( except for touch up paint and cleaning)

One down and three more very close!

Some of the finishing touches downstairs

We have been working on just little bits of stuff. Trying to get a storage unit emptied out and things installed. We had to go through the units anyway to figure out what we have already purchased and what we have left to buy. Honestly we have a few more light fixtures, one ceiling fan, one closet door and a bathroom and kitchen faucet to buy still. It seems that we have most everything else. I am sure there will be other little things here and there.

We installed the kitchen cabinets. Chris has to go back and put in filler pieces but for the most part that is done. We have to figure out countertops still. We go back and forth on what we want to do.

We installed the lights in the kitchen. Not all of the electrical is hooked up yet so some of the lights work and some do not. The switches are not installed yet and we only had a few lights hot so that we could work on the house.

This is the tin that runs down the back hall. We were able to get it painted and installed but still need to give it another coat of paint after caulking it. The doors downstairs have been painted and installed now. We even have door knobs on! We have installed lights and ceiling fans int he rooms downstairs too.

Not much has changed in here. I just wanted to take a picture of the Coca cola cooler we will be transforming into a sink base.

The downstairs walls are painted.

We have been working on getting the downstairs walls all painted. We had to cover up all of the floors first and then finish up the little touch ups on the drywall. So, this is what it looks like now...

This is the main floor bathroom. We picked a blue because there was already so much blue in the license plates.

This is the guestroom. It is a grey/green color.

This is the gameroom.

The bathroom off of the gameroom. It is a light brown.

The back hall will be a light yellow.

The laundry room is a darker peach color.

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The library ceiling has a darker blue tin and the rest of the room is a very light blue.

These are some tiles that we picked up for $1.29 a sheet. We are not sure where we will use them yet!

 Maybe we will use them in the kitchen. It is a light grey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are another type of tile we pick up for $1.56 a sheet. We are thinking these will go in the upstairs bathroom.

These two pictures are of the finished floor and what it looks like downstairs.

 

Next we are working on the air conditioning units because the electrician in coming back in a week or so. We will also be working on the drywall finishing of the upstairs on each side.

More work on the outside

 We have been working on some of the outside stuff the last few weekends. We got both of the outdoor mini split condensers mounted on the bins. They are pretty high off the ground! The first picture is the one for the North half of the house.

This one will run the South end of the house.

We got the railing up on the back deck.

The deck to Hunter's room is now done.

Now we can officially say the back deck is DONE!!!!

Now for the reason we had to switch to working on the outside....the inside floors are being finished! I will be able to take better pictures of the floor soon. Right now we can not get on them so there is no lighting to show you what they look like. We ended up hiring someone to do the floors. That was not what we had planned and we still question whether that was the right choice or not but we did it. They are very pretty and we like them a lot.

Getting to the fun parts more.

To talk a bit about the money first because I always forget...to date we have spent $66,850 on our house. That includes most of the inside fixtures and appliances. We still are going to have the floors stained and then the final electrical work that will be bigger bills to add in. Most of the rest should not cost that much (I hope). I don't think that is bad at all for a 3200 square foot house!

We finally got around to picking out the paint colors for the walls. That took about a week to figure out. In some of the rooms we have the antique tin so we have to pick colors that will go with it. Then we have the barn wood and the grain bins. Then we add in the fact that most of the rooms are open to each other so they kind of have to match....let's just say it is hard to choose! There were a couple of colors that I am thinking are going to have to be retinted, because they are not quite looking the way I wanted but we will see after we get some on the walls for sure. We bought the paint at Lowe's. They were having a sale over Memorial Day weekend and we bought 3 five gallon buckets and 17 gallons of paint for $1200 BUT we are getting $260 back in rebates for that paint!! I have also bought a few more gallons that we mistints at $9 a gallon!

This tin will go in the upstairs North grain bin bathroom. You can't tell so well from the pictures but it is a light grey and the walls will be a light turquoise shade.

This tin will go in the back hallway from floor to ceiling. It is a light yellow/gold color.

The above tin is in the library and it was the brown and will be blue. The whole ceiling will be this color and the walls a lighter shade. Chris is not convinced that he likes it yet but I assure him that the color needs to be lighter because we are putting a lot of brown in this room.

The tin in the kitchen we decided to keep and just clear coat it.

More of the same wall...

This wall was the hardest to find a color to go with. The only thing we could come up with was a grey with a hint of purple in it to kind of help blend it in more. We have stainless appliances too so there will be a lot of grey in here!

Trying to get all of the drywall in

There has been a lot going on around here but not much that is worth taking pictures of. Drywall is pretty boring. Taping drywall is boring. Plumbing is boring. Running the lines for the HVAC is boring. There are only a few pictures of things that might be any interest at all.

Chris working on the main floor bathroom. Putting that shower unit in and getting it set took an entire day. There then was more plumbing to pun before the drywall could be put up.

 

After the drywall on the side with all the plumbing.

Ta-da. Drywall is done in this bathroom!

This is the back bathroom. It was supposed to be the room for my mom but she has decided to not move in with us at this point in time so it has become the "game room" bathroom. We really didn't need another shower in here but since it had already been plumbed for one and we had the stuff for it....we went ahead and put it in. So, this is bathroom #4.

Laundry room. Chris had to build out a flat wall to put the plumbing in and to set the washer and dryer against something flat because this happens to be one of the curved walls.

And now that room is done with drywall.

This is the master bedroom shower that Chris is currently working on.

Chris has also been running the lines and the electric wire for the mini splits. This is what the mounting brackets look like for the units. This is for the one in the main living room.

More drywall to finish