This has been the most exhausting week. What we expected would take two days to complete, turned into five days and counting. In between we’ve been packing up the tools to help my sister fix up her new condo. The family is so worn out and we’ve only just begun. But, all the hard work has been worth it. I love my new space. It’s even better than I pictured.

I’ve learned a lot about how a room goes together. I had no idea this would be such a big project. I thought we’d put up a couple pieces of wood for a ceiling, paint the walls and call it a day. No, my dad (the foreman) does things right. No little step was missed in constructing my office, right down to the caulking on the baseboards.

Here’s my mom, she was there every day way too early to even say. She always says, “You have to get up pretty early in the morning to get ahead of me,” so we don’t even try. She’ll do any job and attacks the grungiest jobs no one else wants to do, like cleaning the disgusting bathroom and scrubbing the floors.

Here’s Tyler, my sister’s fiance. He came on the first Friday to help my dad move the wall out and put up the ceiling. Wow that sheetrock is heavy. The gals held it up above our heads while my dad and Tyler got it to fit. The two existing walls were put up by the former tenant and were not square. This made everything from the ceiling to the floor that much more difficult.

Mom and my sister, Elizabeth painting. Everything got painted. It’s amazing how much soap, water and some paint can really clean a place up.

My timeline since last Sunday has been lost. It’s like one really long day that will never end. I know it was Sunday that we moved all the product in. Good news, it all fits. I think it might need to be stacked a bit higher for when the next shipment comes, but I’ll worry about that later. Here’s Elizabeth just after we unloaded the all that product. I promised her I wouldn’t post this picture, but she looks so happy to be done.

Here I am painting peg board. This one was taken the morning of the first day. I can tell because I don’t have any paint on me. The peg board was hung in my shipping area. My dad built two tables of the perfect height for me to ship at. I will hang my tape gun, stickers, etc on the peg board.

The bulk of the work is done. My mom and I laid the floor one evening. We are really proud of ourselves. I even used the chop saw to cut the pieces. All the electrical and painting is done. We just have little jobs left like hanging pictures, installing the new sink and moving all of my office stuff.