Another weekend gone

New tile floor!

We have tile! And it looks good!   The cabinets are supposed to go in this week. The kitchen is getting closer to being finished. We're also getting closer to having all of the tile work in the house done. (Tile is being done in the downstairs bath, laundry room, and upstairs bathroom wall (around the shower)).

Fred and his parents worked hard on Saturday scraping the windows in the upstairs bath. I had my sisters in town, so I had the day off. We did go by to show see the house and say hello.  Sunday was a lot more productive.

Trim scraped to the wood

A friend of the family, who is a professional painter, came with us Sunday to help out. He gave us some great tips and helped a bunch scraping windows. He told about how a heat gun can melt the paint off of the trim to easily remove it. He even brought his over to show Fred how to use it. Fred is in love! He went and got one for himself and went to town on the trim in the upstairs bath. The heat gun gets up to 1000º and melts the paint, so you can easily scrape strips off. It was able to get three layers of paint off and get it down to the wood! So after some sanding to make it smooth, we'll be ready to prime and paint the bathroom.... which we finally decided on the color- it's called Bee's Wax (yellow).

Sweeping up paint chips

I got started priming the shelves that go to the closets and linen closet.  One side of them is done and drying. We're estimating that the cabinets and maybe counters will be going in this week. I hope they do. Our task continues to be scraping and sanding, but we're getting closer. We now have 16 windows scraped! We're more than half way there! Of course we still need to sand, prime and paint 12 of them. I'm hoping we'll be able to get the upstairs bathroom completed this weekend and start on the bedrooms.