its coming together!!!

Its absolutely coming together beautifully. I was hoping we would be finished by friday night and despite staying until after dinner, we didn't quite pull it off.  however, I'm glad to say that things have been progressing nicely.  not to say things haven't been without a bit of stress - like cracking the mirror with one too many turns on the screw - or me thinking i knew where the studs were when in fact i knew where ONE stud was and assumed i knew where they all were - rookie mistake for sure.  Oh not to mention putting in the tiles above the vanity and then realising they were not centred when they were STUCK DOWN - pulled the vanity off the wall and moved it along 10mm sorted it out easily, but meant more bogging and sanding and painting.  its just time at the end of the day.

One cracked mirror - and all my nail holes searching for a stud! AAAAGGGHHH!!!!

Ive also been sneakily doing a bit of wallpapering in the kitchen/dining.  LOVE LOVE LOVE this look so much.  Ive been working very hard at all of the little below the radar stuff - things that take up an enormous amount of time, gap filling every join, smoothing, painting.  buffing out drips and then re-painting.  Its tedious boring work, but it meant i was closer to wallpapering! yippee!! this is where i finally see the fruits of all of that crap dirty work.  right here! to say that I'm satisfied its turning out is probably an understatement.  its funny because I'm finally feeling like this is MY house, I've been wrestling it off the last owners for the last four weeks and today finally i feel like the tide has turned and the house is now firmly mine.  Our hard dirty hot work makes this house now feel like me - its so exciting.