28th Wedding Anniversay Spent At Zelda

Wow. We were pleasantly surprised at the transformation of the upstairs at Zelda this week. The Workman family started installing the crown molding, baseboards, bead board and doors which all look fantastic. All the doors upstairs, with the exception of the pocket door have been installed. Brent will need to get the door knobs and install. We will order the stain nickle to match the door hinges and we have decided to use the "egg" shape style.

The pictures taken do not do justice to how great the upstairs is looking. The Workman ( Ray and Ray Jr.) installed the bead board beginning in the stairwell downstairs and continued upstairs to a height of four (4) foot in the entire upstairs hallway. Then they capped it off with a customized chain rail. Then because you can see the upstairs crown molding from downstairs, it too was customized and all look great. We went with the wide style baseboard which was typical of that era.

Brent, with some help, repaired the remaining hardwood floor areas upstairs in anticipation of having the the floors finished. Unfortunately, the floor sanding and finish may have to be put on hold due to the lack of progress being made by our electrician. Brent will need to have a serious talk with him next week, but our electrician has had some health issues which have slowed his normal slow pace.

We celebrated our twenty eighth (28) wedding anniversary with the girls working at Zelda. To us the progress was a great gift and now, Zelda is looking like a house inside.

One Day At A Time

A new weekend but the same routine. This time we were joined by Jennifer, Jessica and Cookie. We planned to spend Saturday night at Zelda and return on Sunday afternoon, but Brent was tired and decided to shutdown and leave around 6:30 pm on Saturday. No one including, Cookie protested.

The materials for trim-out upstairs arrived and have been placed in side the house. The materials include the doors, crown molding, pull down stairs and baseboards. This should be installed starting the week of May 25th.

Very little progress on the electrical. Our electrican did show-up but made very little progress. Brent may have to take off work and hold a vigil while he works.

Well, the progress we made on Saturday included, touch up painting near the ceilings, the corners, the upstairs hallway, and the upstairs bathroom. The tiles in the masterbath were cleaned and prepared for the removal of excess mortar which will be done next weekend. Brent concentrated on repairing the wood floor in spots. He also created three (3) transitions on doorways.

We also cleaned and mopped the wood floors upstairs to prepare for the guy coming in two (2) weeks to sand and finish the wood floors. It was a long day and we all worked hard put it did not feel like we got alot accomplished. We are just taking it one (1) day at a time.

Happy Mother's Day 2009

We did not travel to Kings Mountain this weekend. Instead we traveled to Birmingham, AL to celebrate Brent's mom's 75 th birthday on Friday and Mother's Day with Grandmother, Becky, Kathy, JoLynn and Rebecca.


We will be back in Kings Mountain next weekend, but our electrican was working this week and Ray Jr and family should start working some this week upstairs if the materials ordered arrive.

In honor of Mother's Day, JoLynn's mom, Anna is on the left and Brent's mom, Bettie is on the right. Both of them are striking the pose on a trip to Zelda during the reconstruction. It must be something in the water at Zelda!

Master Bathroom Floor Nearly Finished.

Lynn and Brent again made the trip back to Kings Mountain on Saturday to continue work on Zelda. We again stayed over Saturday night and worked till about noon on Sunday. Our electrican did not show up during the week so Brent will have to call him this week to get him to do some work. He is really putting him behind schedule, but the price was right.

Brent continued on the master bath floor and was able to complete the majority of the work. He would have been able to finish more on Saturday, put heavy afternoon down pours prevented him from using the saw to make any cuts. Yes that right, he did not want our wet saw to get wet.

Lynn did mark the location of the lights that we have for our electrican to hang. She also removed all the demolished brick from the upstairs master bedroom reading room fireplace hearth along with concrete. To her surprise there was alot of broken glass in the hearth, which we found on two (2) other fireplaces downstairs. If anyone knows why people in the 1920's would put broken glass in a fireplace hearth, please leave a comment.

We do have someone lined up to start at the end of May to sand and refinish our upstair wood floors. We have some repair work to peform prior to his arrival, so I know the next few weekends Brent will concentrate his efforts on the repairs.