So close...

I think I hit something of a low point a few days ago.  It felt like we were working so hard on these (*&)#%^&(@)! kitchen cabinets and they were still so far from being done.  Plus, working outdoors in 90+ degree heat isn't really fun.

The cabinet doors got moved inside and that helped a lot.

Much better idea.

And I think we've had a breakthrough now and things are looking up.  We are so close to finishing!  The doors are just awaiting their final coat of paint today.

I didn't get a picture of the drawers, but they are primed and ready for their first coat of paint today.

And the cabinet bases are totally primed and ready for paint.

They look so pretty, even with just primer!

Sean had a little bit of an adventure trying to paint the insides of the bottom cabinets, which basically involved him being inside the cabinet:

Where's Sean's head?

I see you!

Achievement Unlocked: Painting the Far Back Corner

Brody found an old rug that was left behind in the house, so he just sits there and watches us all.  One can only imagine what must be going through his head.

You guys are crazy.

When we get sick of painting, we've been picking away at the wallpaper in the dining room and entryway, slowly making some progress so it'll go a little quicker once we get to taking it down for real.

Die, wallpaper, die!

Finally, we learned something new about the house this week.  I've had a show running at school, so I've been working at the house during the day and then going to campus at night.  It's pretty sweaty, dirty work, so I brought my toiletries and a towel down to the house and figured I'd just take a shower and change before I went to the theatre.

I got upstairs, turned on the water, waited until it was a good temperature, and then went to turn on the shower.

There's no way to turn on the shower.

There is a shower head on the wall, clearly functional, but I could not for the life of me figure out how to turn it on.  I even called Sean up to the bathroom so that he could try, and he couldn't figure it out either.  There's no little knobby thing on the faucet to pull.  The handle doesn't pull out or do anything that would start the shower going.  We even tried adjusting the shower head to see if there was something on it that would start the shower.  Nope.  

So please, my dear three readers of this blog...tell me, am I absolutely stupid and missing the obvious or did the crazy people that lived in this house before us really have a shower with NO WAY TO TURN IT ON?!?

Check out the faucet...there's NO KNOB!

The conclusion of the story is that I've been taking showers in the basement.

Guess what just got bumped up to the top of our list of repairs to do?