House projects

The house projects are never ending, or so it seems. We have been busy, as usual, trying to put the finishing touches on our house. When we had time to finish them, we didn't have money and when we had money, we didn't have time. 'Tis life I guess. Anyway, over the past few months our house has really started to take shape and is feeling more and more like our home. For starters, with the help of my experienced dad we put the "skirting around the house. Being a modular home means it is lifted off the ground using piers. The skirting is the pieces of wood that cover from where the cement curb around the house stops and where the actual house starts. This took our house from looking like a trailer to an actual home. We also painted the house. This also made a big difference. The paint was peeling, the skirting didn't match and the house had with stood a few bumps and bruises on it's journey out to the mountains. Don and I did the prep work (not fun!) and my brother Cody was nice enough to help us spray the house. Don and I finished up with the trim. What a difference! I have to say that one of the biggest projects accomplished was the addition of our deck!!!!!!! It's wonderful. Until the addition of our deck you were only able to enter through the laundry room or our master bedroom - talk about inconvenient. With the new deck however, we are now able to use the 2 main doors to our house. My dad as usual drew up the deck plans, and helped build most of the deck. We feel so blessed for our home and all of the help we have received in the making of it.

The skirting. (It's the yellow part in this picture)

Where our future deck will be (looking out one of our main doors)
Where our deck will be (facing the double door from the previous picture).


Can he fix it? Yes he can. Caden helping build the deck.
Papa, Daddy, and Caden hard at work.
Mr. Fix it.
The deck frame.
Facing the double doors again, after the deck frame is up. PS if you look at the house you will see the beginnings of house painting prep work.
Daddy cutting some wood.

One of my projects is painting and reupholstering some old chairs.

Painting is almost done, just finishing up the trim.