Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Seriously, PRODUCTIVE does not even begin to scratch the surface of what we did this past weekend. The McGugan Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was exactly that - an EXTREME HOME MAKEOVER.

Over the Memorial Day "long" weekend, we did some major home changes. My amazing family came together and put in at least 30-40 hours worth of work EACH during the three day period. Craziness!!! My middle sis (Robin) and her hubby (Brent) traveled all the way from Nashville to be a part of the action, and Mom, Dad, and youngest sis (Kelsey) were ready and willing to get the job done. The hubby and I were and continue to be overwhelmed by my family's generosity in their time and labor. Even some of our buddies came by to help Saturday with the demolition of the shed... Thanks Riser!!! Thanks Keith! A job well done by everyone!

So, you might be asking yourself,

30-40 hours? What the heck did ya'll do?

Let me give you a tally, just to give you a small glimpse of the productivity this weekend:

• Demo'd the backyard shed
• Moved every single demo'd piece of material onto the curb
• Dug up all the concrete, brick, and shingles that were under the shed
• After priming the backroom, we painted it twice
• Framed out the new window in the backroom
• Painted the backroom trim
• Painted two coats onto the master bedroom door and office doors
• Stripped the kitchen cabinets, doors, and drawers with CitriStrip liquid - two times each piece
• Sanded down (all the way through many layers, down to the plain wood) kitchen cabinets
• Sanded down (down to the plain wood) kitchen doors and drawers
• Primed the kitchen cabinets, doors, and drawers
• Painted two coats of paint onto the kitchen cabinets, doors, and drawers - although we desired and had planned to stain the cabinets it turned out that different woods were used during the creation of each piece, as well as random bits of wood filler throughout the kitchen made us have to go with the painting process instead of stain
  
• Primed the walls above the railing in the kitchen
• Painted two coats of paint in the kitchen, above and below the center trim railing
• Put new hardware of the kitchen cabinet doors and drawers
• Cleaned and scrapped down existing hinges for the kitchen cabinet doors to reuse them
• Primed, and painted two coats worth on the doors separating the kitchen and living room
• Painted two coats in the area/hallway between the kitchen and bathroom
• Replaced the door handles on both slat doors between the backroom & kitchen and the living room & kitchen to match the room they open into
• Put new liner down into the cabinets and drawers

As you can see, we WORKED this past weekend. Below are "Before & After" photos of the kitchen. Before = white cabinets and green walls. After = brown cabinets and "pebble path" walls.

That's the same table before & after, the after just happens to be without the leaf folded out. I love that table, it was a grand buy after our wedding!

I'm thinking all the changes were worth all the work. Now all we have to do is save up for the new floors. ;) Always something, right? Thanks for all the help guys! My family rocks!!!