Yes before I get anymore phone calls or e-mails I know I'm exceedingly slow on writing up this post (three months). So what goes on around here in three months well....
April 2015 the month of money
Before stain and endless coats of poly
April turned out to be the most frustrating of the renovation (as proven by my blogging absence). It wasn't exhausting or even heart wrenching it was just calling ourselves out and putting on a couple new roofs that we never planned for nor budgeted for. We had our buddy Jim do the work, and damn did he do a good job, but double damn it still set us back. Other finishes have been happening around here too. Things like staining the bathroom and bedroom doors and other miscellaneous tedious things. The counters went onto the cabinets in April as well and all the hardware, plumbing and a couple fixtures went up. Things are finding their place more and more everyday.
After
My pretty sink (the colour is truffle if anyone cares)
Putting the new (extremely fancy) sink into the new countertops was one of the most nerve racking moments I've had during this impossible renovation task. I chose to go all out and buy the granite sink because it's so pretty. Holy shit it wasn't that big when I picked it out. See those little white dots those are the knock outs for your taps or whatever you decide to add onto the sink. The way you make those holes is to hold a dowel on them and smash it with a hammer.... it says in the instructions that no matter if you follow them, if you break it it is not the sinks fault.... well shit. Luckily for us Jeremy is a super genious with a hammer so we are good.
May 2015 the month of lost time and that feeling of helplessness you just can't shake
May was just a black hole. Working for real money really blows. Jeremy got swamped by seeding and left the majority of the bathroom (almost the last room!) in my hands. Now I'm not adverse to a chunk of demo but as anyone who has ever read this blog before may remember the layers here are just phenomenally incomprehensible. Layers of plywood, lino, blown in insulation, ship lap, batting insulation, drywall, extra walls, and built in cabinets. Add the thickest layer of nails (I'm not joking I had a layer of nails) as thick as my wrist (that is an exaggeration) and yeah it was super fun. Now I could be just a little disillusioned with demolition.... OK fine I'm just tired of it all. But with that in mind it did get done.
Finished Roof of the Studio
Here is a clean photo of the kitchen
Although we have had a rough month I am loving the new kitchen. When we first installed the cabinets and doors we did have one really big problem, they were pink. Not bright pink but just pink enough to make you look twice. After a long deliberation we decided that pink wasn't the end of the world and if it really got to us we could just wait for summer and paint them. So we bit the bullet and put the counters on. Once the counters were there it's like the cosmos came together and my cabinets didn't even have an iota of pink. I know it's there but luckily enough no one else seems to see it.... If you do I really don't want to hear about it.
Missing from the above photo is my new custom built (by Jeremy) island countertop.
June 2015 just another month to loose the mind
So that brings me to June, another black hole if I don't say so myself (and I do). It has only just begun but now with the rebuild in full swing I'm hoping we start to feel that high of accomplishment. It just keeps looming everyday as I step over more boxes and more building supplies just to get in the fridge I can't help but feel the desire to just break for the boarder.
The bathroom progress although slow is coming on daily now. We have all of our materials so hopefully we can stop bleeding money (for a while at least). With mudding and taping drywall around the corner I should really wrap this gigantic update up and get at it.
Light. How I miss having light. Jeremy works almost every evening on the Studio using an extension cord and some work lights. It really doesn't help having such a long dark winter. But there is light, at least at the end of the proverbial tunnel. As all of the electrical is finished and literally waiting for SaskPower to come and tie us into the grid (literally a 5 minute job).
In the meantime it's time to get serious about drywall and finish all the little bits and pieces that didn't seem important at the time but now are glaringly obvious. Drywall doesn't do itself and sometimes it pays to bring in some relatives... Like the in-laws. So with Papa working with Jeremy on finishing up the drywall we started, and Grandma entertaining the kids outside, I got to do some sewing... To my never ending shame I'm sure. I'll cut this short and show some before and after photos.
Bathroom - Before
Bathroom - After
Main Room West Wall - Before
Main Room West Wall - Half Way...
Main Room West and North Wall - After
Everything is really starting to come together in there. Some times when you drywall a space it seems smaller than before, this space feels exactly opposite. It's much bigger feeling, mostly because it isn't as full of building materials, and the ladders are put away. As soon as we get some heat in there it will me my time to shine and the mud and tape derby will begin!
Man of the Day
Drywall Apprentices
On to doors. This is the back door to the studio, it's approximately 27 inches wide, considering that standard exterior doors are between 32 to 36 inches wide, it's a little door. This is of course ignoring entirely the fact that it is a couple of planks nailed together with some cross braces (aka: a barn door).
So as we 'finish' the major framing/construction of the Studio there is still more to do.... The new door is stashed away in the shop for now awaiting some form of ambition which after a marathon weekend I don't blame Jeremy for motivational apathy.
There is also a door between the back porch and the North wall (pictured above) that sports this awesome door knob. Now I'm not really much for sentimentality but this knob is so cool! Plus it comes with a groovy key. Does anyone know why the key has been blunted? Should I take it somewhere and get a new ring attached or just leave it as is? Anyhow one way or another this door/knob/key are staying in the Studio.
Yes before I get anymore phone calls or e-mails I know I'm exceedingly slow on writing up this post (three months). So what goes on around here in three months well.... 
