  Well, the kitchen is almost done! 2 gallons of paint, a bucket of mud and some man power the place is coming together quite nicely!
This weekend Chad and I really dived into the mess. Chad measured the piece to go into the hole wrong... so it's a bit short, so we still need to get some base board to cover it up, which i wanted to do anyways, because the stuff in the kitchen is made out of paneling and doesn't look too good.
Other than that Chad did an excellent job with the patch job... before we painted the wall with the mud work felt like paper! it was sooo smooth! except for the 4 inch space at the bottom i can't tell where the door was! yea! now we just have big blue wall that definitely needs some homey touches to it to break up the color! Yesterday Chad spent practically the entire day doing plumbing work... attempting to install new shower fixtures so the drip drip would come to a stop.
He was crammed behind the stove and the wall in the kitchen for the most of the day working on it....No matter what he always had a leak somewhere int he piping... i think it comes from the fact our water pressure is too high... i think we'll have to buy a valve to help that out... but in the end he finally got it and now the shower looks better, doesn't leak and the tub faucet works!
When he was working and getting cranky with plumbing I spent the day outside sanding down the nasty painted wood door frame to the kitchen... and now the wood is cool looking... it's a bit beat up looking but with a new coat of stain the wood now has a character! I can't wait til all of the trim and doors are down, but that'll be awhile! One room at at a time! 
