Making progress

No one (that I know of anyway) has ever enjoyed going through a remodel of their home....me included! It's not exactly easy having your clothes on rolling racks in the dining room, food from your pantry on your kitchen counters, dust absolutely everywhere you turn and the feeling that nothing has a "place" to be put away for weeks on end. Well, this weekend we made great progress on our house (THANK YOU Neal!). Neal took on the project of re-working our pantry area himself...including re-texturing the walls & ceilings, painting putting down new tile and finally installing a (might I say) fabulous "Elfa" shelving from the container store to help get us organized in atleast one part of our home! Not only was I able to get everything off of my kitchen counter this weekend but, I also cleared out a cabinet as well - right now I have 1 completely empty cabinet in my kitchen just waiting to be filled and organized! WOW! We are about a week away from being able to get shelving into our closet which will then in turn get the clothes out of the dining room! Only to lead to the next step of scraping the ceilings, painting and then installing new wood flooring....not to mention putting in a new vanity and re-working the remaining closet with cool elfa shelving as well. So, I'm sure we are about 4 - 6 weeks away from actually being "done" but, it's going to be so worth it! I can't wait!