Well, come to find out, I didn't use the right paint on the white parts of the bathroom (I think). or... the bathroom was really that bad and I needed to prep more before painting. Either way, we got to revisit the bathroom, especially the walls above the shower and the ceiling. Peeling paint, dirty smoke residue coming through from the plaster, and mold developing from a poor ventilation system.

Keil spent this morning scraping, cleaning, and prepping the walls for new mold resistant paint to be applied, hopefully, this weekend. By the way, the dark spots on the walls are from him getting down to the roots of the wall. The mold he took care of before the prepping started, sorry, don't have pictures of that. :)

Then about 10 PM tonight (when he got home from work) we started removing the old bathroom fan (man that was disgusting!) and putting in the much nicer new one (that we actually bought over a year ago - lol). The new one was about 2 inches longer then the old one so we had to cut away a little more of the ceiling. About midnight we finished up. Now all we need to do is finish repairing the ceiling and paint.

At the start of the weekend I (Jennifer) always say, I sure would like to rest at some point this weekend. I really need to stop saying that. haha. This weekend we busted out the frame for the window seat that will double as some much needed storage. Keil, as usual, was amazing at taking my colorful drawing and turning it into a strong, sturdy, and beautiful piece. We had a few parts that were rocky, but we got past those and we got the frame up. All we need to do now is get the tongue-and-groove cedar front put on and the hinges and lid on. Here is how far we got today and yesterday.

Before we get to the “good stuff” I am going to refresh your memory on what the top of our stairs used to look like when we first bought the house….

OK, now on to building the pantry part. Last week we replaced the door at the top of the stairs so it would open in to the kitchen. This freed up the space behind the door to build shelves and make a small pantry to hold all our jars. Keil worked really hard to get the wires run and the wall closed up so we could install the tin. The next step was to build the shelves to fit in that space. We chose to shorten the shelves on the left so it wouldn’t cause a problem with coming up and down the stairs.

The quick version of the process...

Now we just need to decide if we are going to put little lips on the shelves to keep the jars from moving. Also I would like to put some hooks to the left of the shelves to hang aprons and such. And then we need to fill it! YAY! Will post more pictures once we are finished.