House stuff

We haven't taken many pictures of Stian this last week because we have been busy with house projects. We got two projects more or less done this week.

First, we got the attic finished. It's been an unfinished space since we built the house, although we always planned for it to be finished. Kris has been working on it. He built the built-in cupboards and the access doors to the eaves cut and finished the baseboards and painted the walls, and my dad helped install the hardwood flooring on the raised up area and helped to finish up the painting and install the lighting and the handrail. We finally got the carpet put in last week though, so it is now a usable space. We love it. It's so nice to sit up there and watch our Netflix dvds.









Stian loves it up there. The rest of our house is hardwood or tile, so he loves running around up there and throwing himself onto the soft floor. He also loves how his cars and trucks and tractors leave a path behind them in the carpet while he is driving them. Here he is rolling around on the floor the evening after we had it installed.



This is a (somewhat odd) picture of the front of our house - you can see the diamond window from the outside.



Our other project has been to build a headboard for the master bedroom. We have never had a bedroom set for in there, and probably won't have the money for one for a long time (other priorities). So I found a pattern for one online and Kris put it together very quickly. I painted it. We bought a frame to set the mattress and boxspring up on and voila. We just recently hung the pictures in there as well (Kris made the walnut frames). So we've gone from no pictures on the wall and a mattress and boxspring on the floor to this:



(I still need to get curtains up. I have the curtains, I actually bought them years ago - they are just a white sheer tab top curtain. But I need the curtain rods. I'd been stumped because along the wall to the right of this picture there are three windows all together, so I need a really long curtain rod and I have never been able to find one in the store. Clever me I googled it last night though and found one that isn't too terribly expensive. So maybe we'll get that done next month.)

Here it is out in the garage ready to install:



Not bad! It's just a very simple, inexpensive design made from pine from Knock Off Wood. But I love it!