My parents and brothers were in town this past week. While we had all the extra hands around, I scheduled a project. Sometimes I find that giving houseguests a project is a successful strategy for relieving a portion of the pressure on me to entertain.
Sometimes.
I wanted to finish the mudroom with cabinets, a bench, and a counter. This project has been waiting patiently since we moved in 4 years ago. My father also had a project in mind: painting our stairwell. I'm happy to report that both projects were finished in less than a week. But boy, has it has felt CRAZY around here. I think the projects might deserve their own posts. (Well, at least the mudroom.)
This weekend we are decompressing
and prepping for a new round of houseguests on Wednesday. In the meantime, here are a few photos of the activity. It looks strangely calm in these photos. Not really how I experienced it, but, anyway:
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| My brother, mustached mugging mopper extraordinaire! |
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| The boys use Ikea boxes as sleds. Let us not talk about what they did with the styrofoam. |
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| Toddler helps grandma measure. |
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| Trixie and I test out the bench. |
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| The mudroom construction crew, midway to completion, minus Fritz and yours truly. |
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| Toddler watching grandpa pour paint. |
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| Repainting the stairwell. Still white, but a cleaner, brighter white. |
2 comments:
Oh I wish I had a mudroom. And if I did have one, I wish it would have a bench like that one! Very nice!
The mudroom looks really cool! I'm sure those come in very handy.
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