Curtains

Dining rooms curtains.

Entry and living room curtains.

We reupholstered the dining rooms chairs, they turned out really good.

Dining Room Wallpaper

With a ton of help from Karina's dad we finally got the dining room wallpapered. We originally thought this would have been done in the spring of 2009, then we thought last fall we would get it hung, but like everything else there were a lot of steps that had to be completed beforehand.

Here's the dining room as it was when we bought the house. Since this point we pulled the old wallpaper down, pulled up the carpet and backing stuck to the floor, patched the walls, fixed the ceiling after the bathroom pipes were replaced, painted the ceiling, stipped three layers of paint from the all the trim, sanded the trim, stained the trim, and then hired out to have floors refinished.



Here's how the room looked after the wallpaper was removed. We looked at these walls for more than a year, it was very exciting to finally get these ghetto looking walls papered.


First corner finished!


Bruce working his magic.

Ultrasound II

Here's pictures from the latest ultrasound. The doctor said everything is looking good, the baby won't cooperate and show his/her face so they still havn't got a good face picture. Karina still thinks its a boy.

Here's latest ultrasound pictures.

Ultrasound

Here's some pictures from the second ultrasound last month. I'll post the new ones after we go in this week.

Baby's Room

We've started to get the baby room decorated. We had an ultrasound a week ago, everything went well. The baby's now 8 oz (50th percetile) and looks way bigger than the first one. We could see the heart beating, arms and legs moving! We didn't get a good picture of the face, so we will probably get another ultrasound in the next couple weeks.

Next week Karina will be half way done, which is crazy! Due date is still April 21st.

Here's a picture of the baby crib my parents bought us. This is where the baby will get a full 12 hours of uninterupted sleep every night.


Here's the matching changing table/dresser. We're hoping the baby comes out potty trained so that we will only use this as a dresser.


This is the first room with curtains, that's a big step for us. Two down, 28 more to go.

Stairs

Finally got the spindles and banister stained and put back together tonight.

Here's the starting point a year and half ago.

Kitchen

Here's some before and after pictures of the kitchen floor. The linoleom removal in this room was the worst of the house, took me about 6 nights after work. This room doesn't have finished hardwood floors, just rough cut fir sub-floor.

We lived with a drop cloth for two weeks.

We used a natural finish. The back breakfast nook addition has plywood subfloor, eventually I will cover that with a sheet of vinyl.

Here's our new wood buring fireplace insert. This actually heats up the room, as I'm typing this I'm considering taking off my sweatshirt which would be a first! We can only burn small fires to break it in, after that I will be able to fill it and get the house to 75 degrees!