No Room for Guests in the Guest Room

Last Christmas Luke and I splurged and bought a new bedroom set for the master bedroom and moved our oversized log bed to the guest room. I love the log bed, but the guest room is only 10x11 and the log bed is huge.

There was barely enough space for the bedroom door to clear the foot board and any luggage blocked the path around the bed.

Bolstered by some recent success with woodworking projects I decided to build my own headboard and attach it to a cheap metal bed frame we have stored in the basement. Using maple scraps leftover from previous projects I designed and built a simple headboard.

I wanted the look warm look of aged cherry wood. It took a base coat of red mahogany, followed by a coat of cherry and two coats of english chestnut to get the color I wanted.

Just so the change is more dramatic I've included a shot from the day my brother moved in. Please note the classic rust-color shag carpet.

After

Without the log bed frame we had enough room to move Luke's old dresser for guests to use. Since we don't have a media room at the moment we brought in the old tv. It's more comfortable than watching movies in the garage.

With the guest room finished and the exterior work done for the time being it's time to start the next big project, finishing the basement.

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Our New House - It Might Just Be Home

I recently announced that we had sold our home in Helena and will be moving to my hometown in July. We did some house-hunting over Easter weekend and I'm please to report success. We are in the process of buying our latest home: I know you can't see it well behind the trees. I'm so excited to have actual trees on the property. The house itself is nestled against the base of a hill which will block our views of the sunset but the east-facing front porch should offer some wonderful sunrises. And here's a sneak peek of our view. I won't be posting any more photos until we've actually closed on the house. Closing is still two months away and a lot could change before then. Still, I look forward to sharing our latest project.

Sold

We sold our house last week. This may come as a surprise since the house wasn't even for sale. We weren't planning to move. Everything in the house was designed with the idea that we would be living here for years. But sometimes God makes it abundantly clear that He has other plans. In the course of just a few days Luke was offered a chance to move to his company branch in my hometown and we met a family looking for a house in our neighborhood. And now our house is under contract. Closing is scheduled for mid-July so I will have a little time to recover from having the baby, but until she arrives I've been packing up all our non-essentials. We have already started looking for our next home; maybe it will be a home we get to enjoy for decades. We'll just have to wait and see.

Repainted

It might not feel like we've accomplished all that much since buying the house last summer. What progress we have been able to make comes during naps and after the kiddo is down for the night. But despite having to work in nap-sized increments, we have been able to get quite a bit done. Take for example the house paint. The siding was rough shape. A few more years and we would not have been able to salvage it. Before - Rust colored stain needed a fresh coat years ago After-Paint provides much better protection for the brittle pine siding. Before After Garage Before - Original combed cedar siding was in terrible shape after years of mistreatment. Garage After - It looks better, but the siding needs to be replaced. The new paint will buy us some time until we're ready to tackle that project. Stable Before - Probably hadn't been painted in 20+ years. Stable After - It took 8 gallons of paint for a 16x30 structure. ...

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