• baseboards...check!

Downstairs baseboards are measured, cut, and attached to the wall! Let me say that again- they are done!! Well, technically. They are on the wall and the edges and nail holes are caulked. Now, we have to go back and paint, but they're up and look fantastic. We're debating about now adding the quarter-round.

It took us all morning Saturday to measure and cut 90% of the downstairs baseboards. We had some other things to do Saturday afternoon so we called it a day around 2:30 pm. Sunday we slept in a bit and got back to work. After about an hour everything was cut, it started to rain a bit, so we moved inside to nail the boards onto the walls. Everything just looks so much better with baseboards!

David found a Craigslist ad about baseboards a week ago, checked out the store, and we decided to use them. $.50/foot for 4 1/4" baseboards- super steal! They come in 16' pieces - that was a fun trip home! One end stuck out the back of the 4-Runner (window down) and the other stuck out the front passenger window resting on a box and the side mirror. My arms were tired from holding them together!

I was in charge of measuring while David did the actual cutting on the miter saw. We have to go back for one more piece of baseboard to finish off the closet- since we added the 45-degree finisher piece to the ends of some of the baseboards we were a little bit short. The best piece was along our long wall- 29.5'. We cut two 45-degree angles off the ends of one piece and put the board in the house. Then we had to measure and cut down a second board to the right size. After we set those two pieces inside it already looked better!

We need to finish the upstairs hallway, office, and bathrooms and then we'll be totally done with baseboards. Hooray!

Now when we walk in the door the house just feels more complete and finished. I love it! Slowly but surely- we're getting there!