Almost done

Back in February Duane decided to replace the carpet in the main areas of our house with laminate wood look flooring. After taking up the carpet we discovered that we had high and low spots everywhere in our slab. So we spent about 4 weeks walking around on concrete while Duane grinded some of the high areas and filled in the low. I had to leave the house while he worked because I was pregnant and couldn't breath the dust. Oh, and he also busted up the tile in the dining room, back door area, and front entry. I remember it took me 3 hours to clean the kitchen after he was done. The dust was insane. Well, after he got the floor done, he decided to wait a few weeks to put the baseboards back on to see how the floor shifted. (It is a floating floor) Well, now it's March and baby is SCHEDULED to be born in 21/2 months so he put off the baseboard to help get Brynlee's room ready. Then April came along and we had several baby showers. We spent a lot of time organizing and trying to prepare for Brynlee. At the end of April I was put on moderate bed rest due to high blood pressure so he was helping me more with daily things around the house. Then, here is was May, the baseboard still weren't done and SURPRISE...Brynlee decided to make an early arrival. If you have had a baby you know how the month of May went for us...baseboards???what are those??? June comes and goes with no work on the baseboards. We talked about it A LOT but were never motivated. I think we were just recovering from the all the stress and adjusting to parenthood. We got motivated in July and started working. After many paint samples we finally got the right color of white paint. (who knew there could be so many different shades of white) Duane realized that the old baseboards where damaged beyond repair to put back up, some of them split when he took them off. Now we had to go to Lowe's to buy new baseboards along with a miter saw to cut them. I think Duane was into this project now because he got a new power tool. Some men like cars...my husband LOVES power tools. They look really pretty sitting around in the garage...whatever!!! The last 2 weeks Duane has been cutting new boards and I have been painting during nap time. Here is a picture how I spent a few of my mornings/afternoons this week.

And here is a before and after shot.

Things are looking better around here now huh. So glad this project is finally getting finished. Duane has 6 more boards to cut so we hope to be done with this 6 month project by the end of the week. I will post an update when we finally get it completely done.