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.