It’s now been a whole year since we moved into the house. The time went so fast. I still remember post blizzard moving day, so stressful, but super exciting. We had a lot of plans when we first got into the house and really unrealistic timelines :). We’re definitely not where I thought we’d be, but all in all I am happy with what we’ve accomplished thus far. I’m quite proud of how skilled we’ve become at so many things. I’d say we were both pretty handy before we started this grand project, but we’re on another level now. Also, we’ve finally moved upstairs!…more on that in a future post.

So what have we been working on since December? A lot of work on the walls in the upstairs bedrooms and hall. For starters, we closed up the wall between the sewing room and the master. It was kind of weird once the drywall went up. For the last year it’s felt like one large room. In the beginning we were almost tempted to just turn the house into a two bedroom with one really large master. But after further though we realized that would be terribly impractical. I have to admit this wall made me a bit nervous, if it wasn’t done well it would be very apparent there used to be a large opening. The taping job turned out pretty well. But what really helped blend everything together was the baseboard, after that was added it really made it look like the wall had never been opened in the first place. We fit wood into the base and then had to find matching base caps to blend in with the rest of the room. As usual, once we added paint it blended right in.

The upstairs window trim required some handy work as well. I don’t like to get rid of things that have been in the house for years and years so I tried to keep as much of the trim as possible. Two out of four of the window sills were cracked. Sills were something that I assumed one could run into Home Depot and purchase, but that is not the case. After checking a variety of hardware and supply stores, we determined that window sills must be made. So make them we did! Because the trim is so old, we could not find exact matches for pieces that needed to be replaced. We managed to keep the windows in the sewing room original and build new trim in the guest room.

The guest room has been painted a medium shade of grey. The neutral color will give me freedom when picking out all of the fun things like curtains and accessories. Amazingly we’ve managed to have overnight guests in our currently chaotic home, but we’re looking forward to the first time we have the guest room in use for the first time.