Kitchen Cabinets

This weekend we focused on getting the kitchen in. I was able to install most of the cabinets and make the counter top. I still need to do some more sanding as well as put several coats of tung oil on the top but the hard part of making it is done.

Paulette milk painted and polyurethaned the upstairs bathroom floor. It looks really nice. We kind of think we would have liked to have painted more of the floors, oh well to late now.

The first cabinets to go in.

Gluing the pine boards for the counter top.

The plywood back board for the pine counter top drilled and ready to go. I glue and screw the plywood back board to the pine boards to give it strength

After a lot of measuring and re-measuring I made the final cuts to the sink opening. I ended up using a skill saw to make the final cuts so it was a fairly tense few minutes until I had it done -- the potential to mess a days work up was pretty great i.e. "measure twice cut once, not "I cut it three times and it's still to short" :-).

I used cut nails and glue to hold the edging on.

A couple late night pictures of the finished counter top. I am going to make a back splash and glue it to the wall. I will finish installing the rest of the cabinets during the week and Paulette will put the doors back on.

Making progress

Here are some pictures of the work we have been doing. If all goes well we should be moving in by April 1st, no joke :-).


Here is the wide pine boards ready to be distressed.


Emma working on making the floor look 200 years old, kids are good at this. She is using a mace like tool that has pieces of metal tied to the stick so marks can be put in the floor before finishing it. The final product looks like a floor with many years of use on it.

Here is part way though the staining process. Paulette came up with a layered staining method that really looks nice when it is done. Here she is putting the second coat of stain on the floor. She will wipe this off and let it dry for a couple days before coating it with 2 coats of satin polyurethane.



Here is a bad picture of one of the finished floors. I will take some more pictures that do them justice.





Some of the kitchen cabinets Paulette is in the process of milk painting.



The window in the entryway. This is the first window we have finished and it came out great!! We are very happy with how all the pieces have come together and the look is just what we were going for.




Mud season is here really bad. The road is a mess and the weather has not been making it much better. It may be spring in some places of the country but we are still enjoying winter up here. Yes that was sarcasm.


The ewes are getting big and are due to start lambing in the beginning of May. I will need to give shots and shear them in about 3 weeks.

Ice storm!!

We had a little ice storm up here Monday and Tuesday. It was very isolated to the hills so we could drive 2 minutes down the road (~200’ elevation) and there was no ice. Lots of branches and some trees came down. But the Foster farm never lost power!!! Good old P&B light and power.

The house is coming along great. We should have hot water today (3-9-11) and all three bathrooms should be done by the end of the week. Paulette and I picked up the new kitchen cabinets at the cabinet makers yesterday and this weekend Paulette will start milk painting them. They are going to fit in very nice with the “old house”. I finished installing all the floors on the second floor and have started in the first; Paulette has been painting and finishing floors. It won’t be long now. The goal is to move in by the end of the month.