the house, a week in review

Let's see.

Not a lot of progress on the house-building this week.

Monday and Tuesday all available minutes

were dedicated to costumes

and going to the Fall Festival at our church.

Wednesday was full of 

recovering from the Fall Festival

(so.many.people!)

and making food for 242

and then,

of course, actually attending 242.

Thursday,

you might remember

 I spent over 5 hours finishing the front door.

Thursday evening and Friday were spent 

testing various stains / stains with tung oil combos

(and running around town,

obtaining said stains)

and then doing several hours of research

regarding the use of stain 

under tung oil.

(It's trickier business than we'd initially realized,

but we are pretty set on the tung oil

as we feel like it will give us the look we are wanting

with maintenance that we can handle.)

Friday night,

Tyler and I started on the installation

of luxury vinyl planks

in the upstairs bathroom.

(we also totally forgot about a birthday party

Jeremiah and Josiah were supposed to go to,

and felt like huge heels

 when we saw pictures of the party on FB Saturday night

😩)

methinks my tub protection isn't terribly effective all smashed into the tub, instead of covering it 😑

We babysat Hadley over the weekend

(she was soo much happier than last time - yay!)

so not much at all got done on the house,

but we did manage to finish the bathroom floor

(a little tip - if you have access to a saw,

don't follow the instructions

and cut the dang flooring with a utility knife.

Use the saw!)

and we started making stain.

(an outdoor kitchen would be very nice for this)

There are only 3 wood prints in a box of 7 planks - what the heck?!
I was expecting all 7 to be different, and even then, wasn't sure how I felt about it...
Tip #2 - install your fake wood before you install the real deal

Oh -  I also added one more coat of teak oil to the door

while Baby Girl and Pops were napping.

The 2 coats I had on it probably were good enough,

but now there is no doubt

that it will be protected for (at least) a few years.

Hopefully we will be able to make significantly better progress

this week,

because there is still soooo much to do

before we can move.

And we are all so ready to move!!