Front Room Progress

Hi!

Thursday night we all went to see the Harlem Globetrotters in Summerside at the Credit Union Place!

K and I thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing, so of course we should go!  Turns out they'e been here about 3 or 4 years in a row!  It was fun anyway!  They played the Washington Generals and won in an overtime sudden death play by 1 point! ;-)

Since I'm done with tutoring, I now have Tuesday (during the day- I still have to work at the library from 5:30-8:30) and Thursday to do things around the house.  Yay!  We are finally making some progress on the front room again.

Tuesday I hung the double doors for the coat closet.

This involved moving out the mitre saw and measuring and cutting a lot of 2x4's.  I also had to rip some 3/8 inch plywood to use for the side of the doors.  Ripping is my least favorite thing to do for some reason, but with our rechargeable Skill saw it's easier, so I was able to get it done!

Here's inside the closet. Still a mess!

Looking into the future master bath. 

I'm eager to get to work on our locker/cabinets on the other side, so yesterday (Fri), I worked on finishing up the little bits of drywall that were still left to do. If you look above, I did the drywall above the double doors.  I did above the front door and two narrow pieces around it.

This part was already done. 

Same place, different view. 

Again, this was already done. 

Here, I had to do a tiny piece in the corner.

More tiny pieces over the door to the hallway, to the right of the door and to the right of our glass blocks (from the Dr. Pepper plant in Dallas!) 

Here's the angled wall which was already cut and put up, but still needs to be trimmed. I did to the left of the double doors and had a leftover piece which should just fit to the right of the angled wall when we finish up the studs that need to go behind it. 

Now, I have to finish screwing in the drywall and then the taping and mudding will begin.  N had a good idea yesterday for the benches in front of the lockers. I had planned on having them built in, but he suggested that they be able to slide under the lockers.  Then we have the option to push them in if  we want, but can also have them out!  Great idea! So, that's our new plan.

Here's an inspiration pic, but instead of baskets, we'll have a bench.

Maybe something like this

from Ana White to hold shoes, except not so "country" and maybe with an upholstered top.

Lots of exciting things! :-)