Done with Drywall

Just a quick post to commemorate the hanging of the last piece of drywall in the basement. Yay! We've been living and breathing drywall for so long that we are actually excited to finish mudding and start sanding. I'm sure that won't last long. And that isn't all we've been up to lately--we've also completed a couple of little sewing projects and revamped our upstairs hallway with paint and our wedding photos (just in time for our first anniversary....)

I know this photo makes it look like Brendt is napping on the job, but trust me, he is actually hard at work hanging that last piece of drywall.

And here he steps into the fray...and polishes off last of the drywall!


These next two photos are a couple of pillows I sewed for the living room. For those of you who read our blog about the dining room chair reupholstery, you may recognize the fabric.

For this pillow, I tried to make rounded corners and the entire pillow just turned out looking lumpy. :( I have plenty of fabric left so maybe I'll try again later.

Ok, we feel like we need to preface the hallway with our rationale behind the paint color. We wanted a nice, neutral color that would looke good transitioning from a light green living room to a blue bedroom and an orange and grey office. Also, it had to be a lighter color since our hall is so dark so it would give the illusion that our hall was brighter. That being said, we went with a nice light yellow color called 'Soft Duckling' or some cheesy variation of that name that almost makes you want to cuddle with your paint can.
So it turns out that 'Soft Duckling' should have been named 'Rubber Ducky' but it doesn't looks so bad with this picture that we already had.

And finally, it's our wedding collage! We had a lot of fun picking out frames and pictures and figuring out which picture should go in which frames and etc. etc. Brendt mostly put together this final layout. He did a pretty good job, I think.

So that's what we've been up to. Hopefully by the next time we write, the basement will be painted!

Even More Basement....

To be honest, we haven't been up to a whole lot besides working on the basement. We are so eager to get it finished that we are trying to take advantage of our excitement before it wears off. So far, so good. The one project I have completed recently that didn't involve drywall or clearing nails out of two-by-fours was sewing a curtain for our bedroom closet with Ryn's help. The door on our closet had a nasty habit of nicking my dresser and my dresser had a nasty habit of slowly boring a hole thru the closet door. We put an end to that.

I'm so proud of this curtain. It looks store bought to me. Thanks, Ryn, for all the help!
If you look closely at the dresser, to the right of the knob, you can see where the door was slowly chipping away at it.

Just look at all the progress we have made! This is Brendt taking a break from cutting drywall to get a little mudding done.

I had to include a shot of the only drywall I cut and put up myself--the small pieces that went above the door frames. Three down and two to go!