Home Renos 3.3

Well, it's been around 3 weeks since I last wrote a blog, so I guess it is about time I update on the progress being made around here.  I actually didn't realize that it had been three weeks until I sat down to write this one and wanted to see where I left off.  To all our family and devoted friends, I'm very sorry!!  We've been pretty busy lately and the work we've done hasn't made much of a change, so it is hard to write a weekly blog about it!

Anyways, on to the work...I left off with us needed to varathane the cabinets one more before moving onto the doors and coat rod.  That has been done, along with the coat rod and the doors.  The coat rod looks really cool.  John built two end pieces which attach to the bottom of the cabinets and which hold the rod up.  The way he put them together and routered them makes  it look really cool.   I'm really pleased it how it came together!  Now we just have to put it up.  Which will likely be a job for next week.

The completed coat rod - yet to be attached.

The doors are also completed.  John has some issues getting them up because the screws which came with the hinges were not made very well so the majority of them had a bad wobble to them and he stripped most of them and a few didn't even have a point on the end.  On Sunday, we went to Home Depot to get some better screws, which really made a difference.  Fortunately the handles we picked didn't give us any problems and they match the handles we put on the doors in the basement! (something I was more concerned with than him!)  Here are some pictures of the doors progress...

Doors pre-stained.  John put the hinges up and made sure that
everything fit before we started staining.

I started the staining process one night after work.

 

Doors completed and attached!  They look really nice!

That's it for now!  We are going away for the weekend before starting on the next step in this project.  Hopefully we can get this done by the end of the month...one can always hope, right?