Nursery (sorta) Update: The End Is In Sight

Well, after a summer of incredibly hard work, our living room is almost put back together and the bookshelves are almost complete. We are one UPS delivery away from all four pieces being put into the living room, emptying out the office / nursery, and beginning to really clean out your all's room!

The two weeks after campout were spent painting the cabinets (with a lot of thanks to Johnny who was here every single night for more than 10 days straight, painting away). It's amazing how much more finished they began to look even after just a coat of primer.

After the paint job was complete, a terribly tedious job of sanding the dry wall was next on the list. Unfortunately, the fireplace wasn't completely square, so it was a pretty tight squeeze to get the bookshelves in. Too avoid having to force them in, we decided to sand some space off of the walls. What an awful job for Keal and me - he trying to sand and me following him around with the shop-vac, trying to pick up all the dust.

so much for our lovely paint job!

Our cabinets were now painted and dry, ready for the lights to be put in.

so proud of himself!

All summer long, Keal has talked and talked about "needing" a new TV for our living room makeover. And while I agreed (to an extent), it definitely wasn't a priority for me. So, we began budgeting and saving any "extra" money that came in, putting it to our new TV. One night I came home to find Keal even wrapping his coins to make an extra 50 bucks! His goal: to have saved enough to buy a TV for Christmas.

For his birthday I decided to surprise him and go ahead and get his TV now. I was going to buy it myself, but he had researched and found the "perfect" TV and I didn't want to make such a big purchase by myself. So, together we went out and got his birthday gift.

very excited about his birthday present

Finally, with the cables and TV purchased, the cabinets sanded, painted, and finished, it was time to start moving them back into the house!

Getting some help from Uncle KiKi to move them into the house

I was so ecstatic, I had to put something in the cabinets right away. I went with the oh, so important board games! After getting a quick power nap on my lap, we enjoyed our new TV, the Steelers, and our new living room set up together last night.

 

It isn't even finished yet and already I love our living room! I was sitting on our couch last night just admiring your dad's work. It is amazing to me that he is able to turn just some regular boards of wood into incredibly beautiful pieces of furniture! I am so excited that the end of this project is in sight and all of his hard work has paid off so well. I can't wait to get back into your nursery, clean it out, and start planning for you two (just over three more weeks until we know if we should be planning for boys, girls, or both...then we can really get your nursery set up!).