Will all the chaos of cleaning & painting ever be done!

So we put on an addition of a dining room.  It was phase 2 in a renovation plan my husband and I put in motion 6 years ago.  We needed MORE room in our mudroom for 6 people to put all their gear during a season.  Fall & Spring are exceptionally cramped for room since we need two seasons of outdoor clothing with the temps and weather varying day to day, not to mention room for guests to hang their coats. 

With us living in Vermont putting on an addition, you have to factor in snow.  I know that sounds strange but for us if we put on a small extension on the back of our home near the existing mudroom we would have a hard time getting by it in the winter to push the snow out of the way.  UGH!  So that option was out!

We decided to shift the house rooms forward which meant the kitchen was to move into the dining room and the mudroom would extend into half of the kitchen area.  It sounds easier than that renovation was but none the less that was done 5-6 years ago.

This summer we decided it was time to do phase 2; adding on to get a dining room back.  I love to entertain and have people over for meals but it had been difficult around the breakfast bar in our kitchen to properly entertain, not to mention sitting at the stools for length of time was killing my back. 

So.....after 5 months of working only in our free time on that addition we were able to have Christmas dinner in our new dining room.  The basement portion of the dining room our children had come up with a plan for the room.  Our oldest would move down to there, allowing our youngest to move out of our middle son's room giving all the boys their own rooms.  My daughter already had her own of course.  So let the sawing, mudding, and painting begin.  It took about a month and....my son has now moved into his new bedroom and slept there for the first time last night!   YEAH!

This morning I have been painting his old room to give my son the feel of a new room as well.  Plus there had been 14 years of posters, and object thrown against the walls, etc. to be in desperate need.  He wanted the same color so it was fairly simple.  One more coat tonight and he'll be able to move his stuff in by tomorrow.

Then it will be on to my middle son moving his stuff all to the middle of the room so I can repaint those walls since he wants a different color and a more mature theme. 

I also repainted during all this our rec. room which was off from the new basement bedroom I did a cool painting technique done with a tool to make it look like it has a wood grain.  After a bit of practice, I'm quite proud of the outcome.















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