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We poured some more concrete last week! Our driveway approach is done and all of our neighbors think we’re in the final stages of our house build… NOT! From the outside we do look pretty close, but take one step inside and you’ll see that we still haven’t hung any sheetrock yet in the house. I’m determined to make March our Sheet Rock Month!  We also finished installing the wood flooring in the wood shop loft so we are moving all of our boxes that have been in our storage unit into this space.  This will save us a bunch of money each month as well as help us find all of the things we’ve been missing for the last 2 years.  Our Tacoma house sold so quickly that we didn’t have time to be as organized as we should have been.  Things were just thrown in boxes and put into storage.  So it’s like Christmas for us!  I DO already own a really kick-butt food processor ~ WOO HOO!! We’ve got to be out of our storage unit by Sunday so we don’t have much time to reminisce 🙂

Finished Wood Shop Loft

Concrete Driveway Approach

We’ve accomplished a lot over the last month, such as finishing the sheet rock in the attached garage and the loft above the shop and we finally have GARAGE DOORS!  Woo Hoo!

Our garage doors are painted and installed

I spent 2 weeks mudding and taping and mudding and sanding and mudding…. the shop loft in the early hours of the morning before heading to the office.  I’m glad to say that I’m getting better at it and learning a few tricks along the way.  It should make my job easier when we are ready to sheet rock Ben’s wood shop.

Mary taking a break from sanding the shop loft at 5:30 am ish

We were also the recipient of some reclaimed hardwood flooring from our most awesome friend Joey Decker ♥.  Ben and I don’t mind a little hard work if the materials are FREE!  We had to clip off the old nails and get them up into the loft and organized by length before we could start nailing them into their new home.  We need to make every inch count so that we have enough to cover the whole 504 sq ft of the loft.

Reclaimed mahogany hardwood flooring

Installing the reclaimed mahogany in the shop loft

The hardwood flooring is all organized by size

We had several offers to get out of town for a romantic weekend but Ben and I want to stay close to home and pour some more love into our new home ♥♥♥  I’ve got a lot of prep work to do so that we can move forward on the house and wood shop sheet rock.   It should be a good productive weekend for us!