Where in the world have the Jenks been, you might ask yourself? In construction mode.
It is 12:30 in the morning and we just hammered in the last piece (!!!) of trim in our addition. We have our final inspection tomorrow (well, I guess "today" is more accurate). We're so glad!
This has been a loooooooooooooong ordeal. Although we were supposed to be completed by August 1st, it is now September 18th. We decided to save some $$$ and do the finishing work ourselves. We thought it would be fun to pull out the old miter saw and get all dusty together. It was fun - for about 3 weeks. But these last 2 weeks have been grueling! We've been up until 1am - 2am night after night after night to the point where we are not thinking clearly or communicating with any sort of clarity. We've hit the end of our rope with buying trim, prepping trim, staining trim, sanding trim, polyurethaning trim, cutting trim, nailing trim, etc. TRIM IS MY ENEMY! I literally have dreams about trim at this point...I hate trim. Trim should die.
But - yahoo - we're all done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pictures to follow soon. I gotta go...I'm so excited to be in bed before 1am.
~Shaunna the Builder
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Haha, that reminds me of all the house building us kids and my Mom have done in the past... in the finishing process there's always lots of painting, staining, polyurethane, headaches from the fumes... etc... Good times!
I meant to include my Dad in that last post as well... he is sort of a major part of the house building thing! :)
Congrats! I'm looking forward to the pictures. I bet it feels great to be finally finished. It's a feeling we're all looking forward to here... the kitchen/dining room remodel is quite the project!
So Shaunna, where's the pictures?!?! JK. Hope the furniture arranging, wall painting and picture hanging is all going well. Can't wait to see it!
Chelsea
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