Hi ya’ll! It’s been a great week. Mom has been in for the past week so we were able to have some fun and enjoy the gorgeous fall colors up in the mountains. Some friends had rented a place not too far away so we were able to spend some time with them and do a train ride through the fall colors. All in all a great week with one big whoopsy daisy. I’ll get to that in a minute.
The first great thing which happened this week was getting countertops! FINALLY! No more plywood! I happen to think they’re very pretty. We are planning to do a white beadboard backsplash, so we wanted some contrast with our countertops. What do you think?
Given that our cabinets are VERY white, we needed to make sure our countertops didn’t have any yellowish tinge to them, and these worked out perfectly! We are super pleased!
One other thing the countertops allowed us to do was permanently install our sink and get me a DISPOSAL! You’re not really supposed to use a disposal with a septic tank, so we’ll be careful not to put a lot down it, but at least now I don’t have to empty that little nasty trap thing anymore.
It also meant we could finally install the dishwasher! This has been sitting in front of the window for about a month now, because our countertops took longer than anticipated (plus our little snafu which delayed it a week).
Installing it turned into a little more of an ordeal than we had planned thanks to a defective plumbing adapter. But Keith prevailed and yesterday I got my dishwasher installed! He still needs to raise it but we’ll do that next week. I’m a happy girl!
While Keith was busy installing the dishwasher, Mom and I took a break and took an online flower arranging class with some ladies from a Junior League group I’m chairing this year. Since it’s a weird year, we’re doing everything virtually. The flower arranging class was a blast and look what we created in this adorable pumpkin ceramic vase!
So fun! Once we finished up the class, I helped Keith with finishing up most of the trim around the house. We couldn’t put it up until the ceilings were finished and the cabinets were in place, and honestly we had procrastinated on it a bit. We had cut it the prior week and I primed it during the week, so it didn’t really take long to put up. I still need to caulk and paint it, but that will have to wait until next weekend. We also added trim along the sides of the cabinets to hide the gap between them and the wall.
My one other project I worked on this week was the planter to cover the well head. You may remember that I started working on the box part of it last week, but had to go buy some more lumber to do the top. It didn’t take long to make the top and then I primed and painted it. I probably should let the pressure treated wood dry a bit more, but I used Zinnser Bin Primer on it, which allowed me to go on and paint the outside of it. That is the best primer if you ever have something where paint won’t adhere. It’s not yet outside as the second coat of paint was still drying yesterday. I was able to find some cute black reflective numbers on Etsy, so I will put those on it next week when we’re back up there and put the box outside. In the meantime, this is what was done!
Now on to my whoopsy daisy moment. When I bought more lumber for the planter, I also bought a paper towel holder. I went to install it yesterday and took the screw for it and placed it on the top of the cabinet door to make sure the screw wasn’t too long. Nope – it was perfect. Well, what I forgot was that the doors, while flat on the inside, are indented on the outside where I was hanging that paper towel holder. Yep, you got it….my screws went through. ARGH! That’s a $70 mistake and now I have to go BACK to Ikea and get another door. I was SOOOO mad at myself but these things happen!
Next week we hope to get the trim painted and put on the backsplash and maybe trim out the kitchen window finally. We’ll see when we are able to get up there and how much we can get done. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with one pic I took the other day. It doesn’t really do the colors justice, as they changed every single day we were up there. It really is such a peaceful and lovely place!
Have a good week!
At Home with the Heffrons 
Everything looks so good Ya’ll have done a wonderfulmjob.
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