James and Kristin Whitt’s Corner

Blinds and Floor

Since the new windows are in, we’re now putting in the blinds in the rooms that have been completely painted.  We have already bought all the blinds because we had a 10% coupon at Home Depot which we used.  The first floor blinds are all vinyl blinds since they windows are higher and there is less of a chance for the cats to reach them.  The second floor blinds are aluminum.  We decided to go with the aluminum blinds upstairs because the windows are closer to the floor and the cats can easily reach them.  We’re hoping that the cats will not be able to destroy the aluminum then.  So far, I have installed the blinds in the windows in the master bedroom, kitchen, living room, and dining room.

George has been working on the subfloor in the living room and dining room.  We’re adding a new subfloor layer over the planks that is plywood.  We’re going to be leveling the floor out under the plywood so that above the plywood will be level.  Once that is done, we can start laying the laminate flooring, which is the last thing that needs to be done before we can start using the living room and dining room.

Windows are in!!

The windows from Nu Vue are all in and they look great. But more importantly, we don’t feel any drafts from the windows anymore. It used to be really drafty by the window in the master bathroom and you could see outside through cracks in the window frame.  Overall, we were pretty happy with the installation.  It took them about 2 days to get our windows done completely (all 19 of them) and the workers were very nice.  The only gripe that we had (which we talked to the project manager about) was the mud in the master bedroom.  We had put some plastic down on the new carpet around the windows.  Apparently they did not put their own down for additional areas that might have needed and tracked mud around almost every part of the carpet that did not have something on top of it.  Luckily, we were able to clean it up.
Last night we went out and got blinds for our bedroom and James put them in. Today, we’re going to go buy blinds for the rest of the house and put them up as we finish rooms.

The house is really coming along now. The master bedroom is completely finished. The kitchen only needs some touch ups and blinds (which will all be finished today). The living and dining rooms only need minor touch ups and the flooring put down. My dad has been patching holes and cracks throughout the house to get it ready for primering and then painting. He’s started working on my office already and ripped out the tiny old closet where the walls were falling in and made it bigger and put up drywall. That room will be done in the next few weeks and then on to James’ office!

Windows

We got a phone call from the window people today so our windows our being installed tomorrow morning!!  Yeah!  James had fun painting all the old windows the nasty orange/brown color that we had gotten for the baseboards in the living and dining rooms.  We even wrote a happy birthday message on the outside of the windows for my dad because tomorrow is his birthday.  Happy Birthday, Dad!!