Drywall Garaged

The Drywall in the garage is done. I admitted defeat and we hired someone to finish it off. Who knows how much we saved (or cost) ourselves with the amount of drywall hanging we actually did, but it's done now and I'm happy about it. This weekend we'll be sealing it with drywall sealer and then painting it and then I can put in some pimpin' cabinets and finally put everything away, finally! The drywall guys were quick, they finished the job in under 2 days.

I also got a mirror and shelves for the bathroom medicine cabinet I've been building for the last 2 years. There's nothing like having a baby to make you want to get everything in order. There's still some work to be done on it, but it's going well.

New Tower of Fun

Ginger Cat's immense ass finally killed the $30 wal-mart tower of fun we had in the bay window. There was a huge crash and there it was on the ground and Ginger Cat was all wide eyed and freaked out. We went out the next night looking for a replacement and found one that was really nice and not as expensive as the $400 tree like structures they were selling.

Here you can see Oreo and Ginger Cat checking it out, the best feature is the holes in the top and bottom shelf. They love twocking each other in the head between them. It's also in the window by the fireplace which means the big bay window is wide open and the living room looks much bigger now.

It's curtains for me!

I put up 30ft of curtain this weekend. Finally our living room and den has curtains. To try and keep the heat in we got velvet curtains and they all look great. They cover both the windows and the doors and are nicely out of the way when they're open. I really don't like the curtain rods you get at the store (the ones where one rod slides inside another rod) and custom made curtain rods are super expensive so I made my own out of 1/2" iron pipe. It cost $100 for 5 rods one of which was 12ft long. I cleaned, metal etched and then spray painted them black and they look great! I'm super happy with how they turned out.