Enjoy watching your progress - great job!

The most impressive part to me is how few shoes your wife has! Can you get your wife to talk to my wife?

On a serious note, love seeing kids helping out. I remember my dad letting me help him do remodeling work when I was a kid and I thought it was the coolest thing.

I used to get somewhat frustrated when one or both of the kids want to help, but then I realized they only last for 15 minutes max before they get bored/distracted.

My wife has never been a big clothes or shoes person. We both try to keep our wardrobes minimal. We figured out in the last year or so that so much of what we have in terms of clothes we didn't actually have the chance to wear. As things wore out, we just stopped replacing them.

New closet lights and grouting

Tackled more closet work today. Got the new recessed lights installed, plus grouted the tile in the closet.

Old ceiling box coming out.


New hole cut


New light ready to go


Spend 30 minutes trying to get the correct breaker flipped off. At least it was productive time getting the other breakers labeled. The existing list is no where near correct for whatever reason.


And finally get the lights in


Closet tile now grouted. Hoping I can get the baseboards in tomorrow


I did not realize just how fast the grout would set up in the bucket. Made a nice big batch to try and knock out the whole bathroom plus closet, and this is what it looked like after no more than 30 minutes.


New door threshold down with new carpet tack installed. Had to move it a few inches to get the threshold installed. There must be some trick that I don't know to get the nails to grab the concrete with carpet tacks. This was my 2nd attempt and just used construction adhesive with weights.


Hoping I can get the rest of the grout done tomorrow.