Scary Cabin

The outside doors are painted and no longer primer white. It only took something like 3 years. With the outside stained, the white just wasn’t making the right statement. Genny spent hours taping, painting, and un-taping the doors and now they look soooo much better. We should’ve done this years ago.

We finished up the last of the utility room trim. The window trim is now installed, filled, and painted. The baseboards are painted and most, well as much as one tube of caulk would do, trim is caulked.

When our friends came over and saw the utility room for the first time since before we started on it, they said that this was the biggest transformation yet. There are still a couple more things to finish up, like the closet shelf & door and we need to order some cabinetry. But for the most part, the room is finished. We re-built the washing machine drain that routes the water out into the yard. The washer and dryer are now usable again. We started moving stuff out of the bedroom and back into the utility room so it’s getting cluttered up again.

The next step will be to go through the place and make a list of all the little things that still need to be done. And while it not “finished”, we’re to the point where we shouldn’t be making large quantities of dust and can start decorating and making it all look pretty.

Except for the large elephant in the room, or rather, outside the room … the deck. It’s a large deck and it’s going to take some to time to demolish and re-build. We’ve started looking at materials and are currently planning to use Trex composite decking and Hog Wild railing something like this:

The choices for decking and railings is ginormous. It’s taking time just to figure out what we want and what we need. But soon we’ll be embarking on our next construction adventure.

Todo list
Utility Room

1. Fix ant infested ceiling joist
2. Get roof fixed/replaced
3. Replace electrical boxes
4. Add recessed lighting
5. Figure out washing machine drain
6. Replace dryer vent
7. Frame new closet
8. Seal up the room
9. New insulation
10. New drywall
11. Texture drywall
12. Paint walls and ceiling
13. Prep for tile floor
14. Tile floor
15. Grout floor
16. Window and door trim
17. Base boards
18. Install closet door
19. Install cabinetry