Beds

 Nathan had a whole month off before he had to go to work.  I put him to work making beds for the kids.  We only had time to make beds for 2 of the 3 rooms.  So we ended up just buying beds for Blakely and KK.

Boys room:

Their room was the most time consuming.  Nathan cut and sanded the boards (I helped a little bit with sanding when he had to go do some things for work).  We then primed the wood before finally staining the wood.  We spent a few long nights trying to get things done.

The girls were trying out the boys bed once Nathan got it up...

Dyer excited to finally have a mattress instead of an air mattress to sleep on.

Handrails finally up but not the ladder.  The ladder was a little shorter than we thought it would be so we had to wait for other pieces to show up before we could complete it.  We tried to find pieces at Home Depot and Lowes but the pieces wouldn't fit together.  The boys used the ladder above for a while before we were finally able to get the actual ladder complete.  Once we got the ladder up we had to make modifications (gluing it together) because when you would try and tighten the rungs on one side it would loosen the other side.  Dyer ended up falling from the top two rungs because they came loose....oops!  The other ladder came back for about a week while we figured out how we were going to fix this issue.  

Finally complete! 2 XL twin mattresses up there with a little space at the bottom of each bed to hold books

Boys relaxing on their new bed.

It's so long that I couldn't get a picture with the whole bed in it.  I took a Panorama view so you could see the whole thing (that's why it looks a little weird).

The boys really wanted desks under their bed.  The boys also each have a little shelf hanging on the side of their bed like a night stand.  For Christmas the boys got a weight set and now have a weight bench in their room.  We still need to decorate it and hang things on the walls but it's slowing coming together.  

Blair and Eden's room:

Nathan bought slightly better/more expensive wood for the girls so we wouldn't have to do so much sanding this time.  Nathan cut the wood and we both painted.  Eden's bed was a little tricky because we tried to assemble it in large pieces in the garage and bring it down the stairs but we couldn't get it to work so we had to disassemble it and reassemble it again in their room.  

Frame finally up.

Siding finally up.

While Blair was at girls camp I spray painted her chair and dresser.

I didn't have enough spray paint so I sent Nathan out to get me some more.  He came back and something was wrong with the spray paint...No matter how much I shook it the paint was not mixing right in the can.  It either came out like green toothpaste or it came out as a clearish yellowish/sometimes blackish oil.  So weird!  Nathan took the spray paint back to the store and bought another one and it did the same thing!  We called the number for the company and they told us that sometimes things can go wrong during transportation (truck getting too hot) so they told us to not buy any cans with that same batch number.  Nathan finally found a can from a different batch and it worked perfectly!

Finished for the most part!

We did buy Blair a frame for her bed.

I'm still planning on putting a roof over Eden's bed and curtains in her windows but eventually it will get done.  I still need to get buckets or shelves from Ikea for under the stairs but we need to make a trip to Utah to make that happen.  I might hang a couple more things on the walls but their room is basically done.

Panorama View

I thought I took pictures of Blakely and KK's room but apparently I didn't.  I'll have to show their room once I get around to taking pictures.  Their room just needs some more throw pillows in their reading nook and then I think it will be complete.