Under Construction

My friend has called this extreme nesting and that is likely what this is but it is time to make room for baby 

number 5.  It has become a bit like if you give a mouse a cookie but in this case if the Rabner's have a 5th child, then they will need to clear out the 4th bedroom which is currently home to our food storage and craft stuff and anything else that we are not certain what to do with.

 So, to move the food storage, we would need to build a cabinet/storage closet in the office to put it in. In discussing this and possible resale of the house we decided it would be best to replace the flooring in that room so that the cabinet could be built on top of it.  But if the tile in your kitchen that matches the tile in your entry, is cracking then you will want to replace it.  And, if you put in a huge sandbox which means your kids are constantly tracking sand on to your carpet in your living room which is truly needing to be replaced then you decide that it is time to replace ALL of the flooring on the main floor.

Thanksgiving weekend we removed all of the carpet and baseboards ourselves.

 Then your husband will have the really good idea that if you are going to make a mess already then you should go ahead and do the messy process of scraping the popcorn ceilings off and redoing those.  So we finished scraping over the Thanksgiving holiday as well.  We then paid the handyman at Peter's company to re-texture it for us- totally worth it!

 Then we were derailed by a major ice storm and so the tile and flooring crew were delayed by 2 days but when they safely arrive at your house they are able to remove all of the tile and place most of the tile in the kitchen and laundry in one day!

 In the mean time the dining room is looking like this.

 And dinner is always best when served in the comfort of mom and dad's bathroom using the crockpot and electric griddle. 

 The room that is needing to be cleared is temporarily filled with more items from the office.

 And the large game room is filled with additional furniture which makes it tricky for kids to play in but they managed. 

 The dining room eventually looked like this as the tile was drying and the wood floor was being laid everywhere else. It was like musical furniture.  I did not even capture a picture of the garage which had a pathway from the house door to the garage door.  

And finally this is what the bathroom looked like for what seemed like too many days. This meant that anytime someone needed to go they had to run upstairs which is sometimes tricky if you are two and fairly recently potty trained. Also the storage closet in the bathroom that is under the stairs had to be cleared of all food storage so that flooring could go in there.  That storage was in the garage.  

Each little piece of our home that we were able to reclaim was glorious especially getting the kitchen and laundry back.  Although, going to the laundromat meant I was able to get all 8 or 9 loads of laundry done (washed, dried, and folded) in 2 hours!

You  have seen pictures with the finished product but I will post some more.  Because if you are all going to do all of the above mentioned you might as well paint the office (the one room that had not been painted) and put in new baseboard.  

A huge thanks to all of those who helped and supported while I was a bit whiny about being out of sorts, not knowing where things are because they are not where they are supposed to be or the workers loaded them in a box and put said box in a place you are unaware of is a bit frustrating. 

I do love the finished product!