the ballister project

This weekend went by in a blur with all the things we had planned.  Chris played guitar with Mike at the Iron Gate Winery in Mebane, we had a great time with family and friends.  Then Saturday, we both needed a morning to sleep in....to 9am, ha!  Since when is 9 am sleeping in?!!!! 

Saturday ended up being a little crazy getting all the pieces together that we needed for our "big" weekend project.  When we have a free weekend we try to tackle the big TO DO projects.  We are really hitting the list hard and we might actually get them all done before lil spark gets here!  (I hope I didn't jinx myself!).  So, here is where we went:


Here is our Saturday crazy circle of stores:

Home Depot: to see if their prices were better than Lowes, well they didn't even carry what we needed.
Lowes: bought the ballisters and handrail, but then they only had 5 of the metal pieces we needed, so back to HD
Home Depot: who didn't have ANY of the metal pieces!!  But we did remember that we needed black paint, so we got that!  Thankfully, there was this crazy old man who reminded Chris of this wood working supply house.
Hardees: for lunch, the new fresh breaded chicken tenders were ok.  The sweet ice tea was wicked good! 
The Wood Place: thankfully they sold the metal pieces in bags of 10 and were IN STOCK
"the Holmes shop" or otherwise known as Chris' Parents house:  they seem to have almost everything for renovation projects.  We borrowed a few tools including a paint sprayer.

Enjoy my photos, sorry for the horrible quality!

 Yippee, 70's medium wood BE GONE!!!
Check out the valance for the nursery hanging in the background on the table!

Dad H is here to help and give his expertise!  Chris said later to me that he had some really great ideas and at the end of the day I had to agree because you couldn't even tell there had been holes in the floor after they worked there magic!

I just love how well they work together.  Chris has been working with his dad full time for years and you can tell that they don't get tired of working together.  I mean its a Saturday and they just spent the whole week together and yet Dad H is over helping with another house project and there are very rarely disagreements.

 

This picture is for those who think my house is never a mess!

What is going on in this picture:

Laundry

Research on used car seats for Owen

Holmes Electrical Services billing and payments

Coupon Clipping

Books waiting to go to the library

Mail that needs to be opened

Of course, the ballister project and take a peak at the fresh BLACK PAINT isn't it AWESOME!!!!!

 Up go the fresh new ballisters that meet today's building codes.

Thank you to Jackson and Julian for showing us how spread apart the old ballisters were.  They slid right through them with no trouble and then it became a game.  I want my house safe for ALL babies and kids. 

The proud new dad to be getting his house safe for a new baby (and our visiting babies!).

It is not 100% secure yet, but from looking at it it looks done!

In case you forgot the old before picture.  Look at those acorn things on top of the newel posts...YUCK!  Can you say: blah brown?  Everything is brown, the drapes, the walls, the mantel, the trim the floors.

How fresh and awesome is this!