Kitchen Cabinets!

Our upper kitchen cabinets were put up - Paul and Rick did a great job!

Easter with O-E

Today my mom organized an Easter egg hunt for Holly and Owen (nickname "Owe-ee"). Holly loves Owen like he's a little brother, and plays really nicely with him. They had fun looking for all the eggs - if it's anything like last year, we'll be finding eggs for weeks!

Kitchen Floor

We decide to use the Tundra laminate flooring from IKEA that we see each time we visit the store. Originally, we thought about using it in the family room as well, but got a really good deal on the flooring we did use. We like the look of it - it appears to old flooring with distressed marks on it. Paul said it was fairly easy to install.

Spring Play

Tonight was Holly's school's Spring Play night. The Kindergarten class performed something inspired by Charlie Chaplin. They were great - and I even got a small part in the play - I got to perform with Holly! I even had to speak in French - talk about pressure! It was a blast, though, and I hope I get to do it again. Check out the video clip below . . .

Curves and more

Here is the painted drywall leading from the kitchen, down the stairs, into the family room. We painted the curves in progressively darker shades of the base wall colour. I think it looks pretty cool.


















Instead of using crown moulding, Paul added drywall again to the outer edges of the ceiling in the spare bedroom upstairs. This was Holly's second bedroom in the house and the exposed chimney is along the wall that used to be part of the old (very steep) stairway.

Painted Stairs - part 2

Part 2 of the stair painting . . .   the plan is to paint the tops a brown colour, similar to the laminate.

Painted Stairs

We decided to paint our stairs instead of finishing them with carpeting or laminate flooring. I got the idea from an episode of "Sarah's House" on HGTV (which I could watch 24 hours a day!). They aren't finished yet, but have just been primed.

Doing something

Mehr came over for a play date today - the girls made this sign for Holly's bedroom door because they were "doing something"!

More drywall

The "piano", or "teeth" if you prefer, are now covered up. It looks pretty different from how it looked a few days ago!
















Any guesses, yet?

Drywall designs in progress

Mudding and taping on the drops . . .




















. . . and another guessing game - what will this be?!