Table Restore...

I have it set in my mind that Cray can fix just about anything. He's got the gift people. He sees the good in a piece of furniture where as I can't see anything good about a beat up broken piece of junk. What can I say I'm blind when it comes to that stuff. Take exhibit A.

This table had that brown paint all over it. Cray liked it though because it had the claw feet legs and it had drop leafs. So he got started on it. Most of the time we work on projects together but homework is what takes up most of my time these days so he didn't have the chance to make me do all the sanding my help.

He did a fantastic job on it, but that really goes without saying if you've ever seen anything that he's worked on. Here are a few shots of the work he had done.

 He took a router to the legs and added some class to them. When he explained his vision for the table I was not seeing the same thing but once again it turned out beautifully.

Here is what it looked like after he put in about 60 plus hours of work on it.

 

Beautiful right? Now I just need him to turn the garage into the dinning room.

Can't believe my eyes!!

So this morning I was checking out the blog world, seeing what I missed over the weekend and I saw that my besty posted a new post. I'm so glad that she did or I would have never known about the great giveaway going on over at Centsational Girl. She's doing a giveaway for a new faucet for the kitchen or the bathroom!! FANTASTIC!!! So of course I left a comment and now I'm letting my lovely readers (all 3 of them) know which one I'd pick if I'm the lucky winner!!

This is the Ashfield by Price Pfister

So perfect and so needed for the kitchen!! Ours is old and needs replaced. Don't say it to it's face though it might be offended. :)

Thank you Centsation Girl for the GREAT giveaway!!

Weekend Recap...

Well this weekend was busy. Our weekend started a little early even though we did have to work Friday. My parents stopped in for dinner on Thursday on their way to SC. It was so nice to see them because we won't see them until Thanksgiving more then likely. I'm happy to say that they won a game in Uker, I say that because Cray and I always beat them. So kudos to the parents, now the score is 20-5. It's an on going battle. :)

Friday Cray helped a friend fix his computer. It seems that he is doing that just about every week but it's such a great thing that he can help out his friends with his savvy computer knowledge. After that we went to his parents house to pick up just about every tool made by man so we could do house work on Saturday and believe it or not when we started working on the house we thought of about 5 things we needed from his dads house.

Saturday we worked on a BIG To Do list. Of course we didn't finish even half of the projects on the list. It's amazing how little things can really set you back. Cray spent most of his day trying to fix the stupid pressure washer and I broke the air valve on one of the tires on the lawnmower. How was I suppose to know that one little hit would knock it off?? I was just doing what Cray asked me to do and that was to hit the tire back onto the lawnmower. Thankfully, in spite of our set backs, we fixed the siding on the house, moved our mailbox and mowed most of the grass (with a push mower thanks to me) before Cray hit a HUGE ant hill and got attached by mad red ants and gave up for the day. Can't say I blame the man!!

Sunday we went to church and then hung out with our friends Paul and Natalia and played some good old Volleyball.

Unfortunately I don't have any photos because none of our cameras work. Yes I said cameras, we have 3. Note to self go buy a new camera. Hope everyone had a great weekend and that your week is just as great!!!

Weekend Project...

I'm sure you have guessed it, Painting!!! My cousin helps out with this investor who flops houses and of course they have tones of paint and he brought a bunch of it to my in-laws house. So my loving husband and I are going there tonight to see if there is anything I like. I'd be happy even if I just found white so that I can paint the door jams and trim in the house. They are in need of some loving. That and helping Mr. H. out with the cars makes up my Memorial Day weekend. What about you?? Any big plans??

First Home Improvement Project Part 2

Well it's been forever since I last blogged, sorry about that. With the holidays, 2 weddings in December, my company closing down our office and moving it to a new location, and my whole family staying at my house for well over a week I've been a little occupied.

I'm happy to say though that life is starting to go back to it's normal routine. Cray and I have started on part 2 of our home project. YAY! It was so exciting to come home and see the finished project. A big thanks to my brother, who helped Cray out with putting up the windows. Here is a before and after photo.





We are going to put some flowers or something in front of it. Anyone have an idea of something we could do? I'm so open for any ideas.

Hope you are enjoying our home improvements. Keep coming back to see how the den turns out.

First Home Improvement Project

Well this past weekend we started our very first Home Improvement Project. YAY! The previous owners of our home had started turning the one car garage into a play room for their children but did not finish. Since Cray is very good at making things at little to no cost I knew that we could turn the garage into a den without going out of our monthly budget.

First step was cleaning out his "man room". I know it sounds so mean to make my husband give up is "man room" but don't worry we have a bedroom upstairs that he could turn into his own room if he really wanted. So here are some pictures of what it looked like before hand.

You might be able to see in one of these pictures that there are 18 computers cluttering the shelves! 18!! I don't think even half of them work. I believe though Cray has some good ideas for fixing up the computers and giving them to GoodWill.

There was also a weight bench in the garage but we moved it before I remembered to take some pictures. So you can imagine that it was a big project and a lot of hard work but I'm happy to say we have the room cleaned out and the computers at lest organized so he can start fixing and getting rid of them. Here are some after pictures.



So hopefully this weekend we will be taking down the garage door and installing windows that his dad has graciously given us from the shop. The shelves will go into the laundry room so I'll have a place to fold clothes once Cray figures out what he is going to do with all those computers. Then we will need to finish up the wiring that the previous owners started, lay down the carpet that is in the shed (from the previous owners), and paint the walls (with the paint the old owners left as well). Not sure why they left so much brand new stuff at the house but I wasn't going to ask; I'm very happy that we get to complete such a large project at such little cost.

Hopefully in June we will be knocking down the wall that divides the living room and garage and put in sliding doors so people don't have to walk through the laundry room to get to the den. I'll continue to post pictures as we get closer and closer to our ultimate goal.