Schools out and the work begins . . .

It has been a while since I have done anything productive in the house other than clean and cook! School work has kept me and the kids busy since we settled into the house. Kevin on the other hand as been a busy beaver! See below for interior improvements! He as also done a lot of work outside including the cleaning out of the garage and he is in process of emptying the storage rental. We also had a new roof put on the house and some dirt work!

Floral Arrangement I put together using one of my Fiesta pitchers. 

Living and Dining Room . . .

Kevin got busy putting up the baseboards and trim around the doors! I will be busy this summer applying caulk, sanding and painting a lot of trim!

Living Room

Trim on front door

Opening between living and dining room. No mitering corners for this guy!

David's bedroom door

Hall Closet Door

Then the closets . . .

Kevin also got all of our closets finished!

The handy closet now has shelves! Lydia painted the inside for us.

David's closet with shelves. Kevin put trim around all the closet doors as well.

Plenty of room for all David's clothes. If we can get him to hang them up!

Our closets got trimmed in as well! This is Kevin's.

Kevin has 3 rods in his. Only he or David can reach the top rods for hanging up clothes.

Shelves on one side under top rod.

No room for a nice gun case, at least until kids are moved out, so he just made one in his closet!

My closet door with trim added.

What you see is what I get! No shelves, 2 rods of which I can only use a 1/4 of the bottom one and no floor space, hence the shoe bag on the door.

Lydia's closet. She nagged and nagged Kevin until it got it finished. She painted it right away! Now she is waiting for baseboards and her room will almost be complete.

She has floor to ceiling shelves on one side which are very well organized.

Two rods on other side but she only uses the top one. She did all the painting herself, inside and out.

She also got an air conditioner installed in her room! Unfortunately she has to leave her door open so it can help cool the kitchen. We also installed one of these small units in the Master Bedroom.

What's going on outside . . .

A new metal roof! Dirt Work and Kevin has put out seed for grass.

 

How the front looks now.                                              How it looked one year ago!

East side of the house.

Backyard after dirt work and seeding.

Shot of backyard from different angle.

West side of house after dirt work. I think they moved out about a foot of dirt!

 That's it for now! More updates coming soon.