weekend work

Before we left for Catalina, Mom and Dad came down to see the new furniture and to help with a few projects. I'm glad they were there for many reasons, but also because I bought Chris a BBQ for our anniversary and I needed their muscles to help get it out of the truck!

The main project of the weekend was hanging more kitchen cupboards (will they ever be done???) and putting new hinges on them. We bought new hinges to match our knobs (brushed nickel) and many of the old hinges were broken and painted over many times, but we bought the wrong ones but Mom was nice enough to run to Home Depot to exchange them.

Dad was smart because when we removed the cupboard doors he numbered them and wrote the corresponding number on the cupboard, making it somewhat easier to figure out where they go. What a guy!  

Dad helping us hang cupboards. I'm so glad I didn't have to do it myself, they were not as easy as I expected!

The cupboards in the bar area had glass panels in the doors and we wanted something a little different, We found chalkboard "stickers" {a roll of thin chalkboard material with a sticky backing} at Michael's and Mom cut them to size and covered the glass. Such an easy transformation and we can just peel them off if we want to go back to the glass!

And Mom left us a sweet anniversary note when she was done.  

We purchased a new patio set last week. Mom and Dad helped me put it together (well, I pretty much helped them put it together since they did more work on it than I did). It is going to be so great to sit out there on a warm evening and enjoy the backyard!

Dad had some help from Brick when he was trying to shorten our outlet cover in the floor.

We have started to let the cats outside and Jack seems to like to roam around; as a few times we haven't been able to find him for hours at at time, but he has always come home.

Mom suggested that we put our old patio set in the kitchen to use as a little breakfast nook. It is the perfect size and adding a plaid table cloth and some sunflowers sure make it cheery (and a little country which I love)!

I probably say this every time, but I am so glad the house is coming together and feeling more and more like home. We have someone coming over today to give us a quote on finishing our fireplace so hopefully I will have more to share on that soon.

Happy Tuesday!!