It's been a busy couple weeks in the Weidl household. We've been hard at work to stick to our holiday deadline and complete our front two rooms, and we're getting closer! Even though Halloween weekend was a whirlwind of hanging out with friends, costumes, handing out candy in the suburbs, and our usual errands, we managed to finish paiting the living room as well! Here's some progress shots from Halloween weekend and this past weekend.

Justin, rolling out the walls...

The lighter color makes sure a difference in the space! I love how bright it makes it feel... and the sunshine through the windows in the morning is the best! Can't wait to get the fireplace going now as well... (hopefully re-tiling soon!)

Our Christmas tree window! Can't wait to break out the holiday decor! =)

Working on painting the french doors for our closet... still 1 more coat to go and then these will be ready to be put up for good!

We've been procrastinating the woodwork for the tops of our doors for a LONG time. We knew we wanted to match this detail (above) that is the original detail from the 1890's above our front door. We have similiar details above our windows too, however they are all painted white (this is why we chose to go with all white woodwork). The detail includes 3 seperate pieces - the bottom routed piece, the middle rectangular piece and the top crown piece. After months of trying to figure out the bottom piece detail, one of Justin's Dad's friends lent us a router so we could simply route our a square piece of wood to get a nice curved inset edge... it came out really nice! Now we just need to put up the middle and top pieces, caulk them all and then paint them all! Whew!! This project will be ongoing, as you can see...

Here's what the bottom routed piece looks like installed. Now we just need to finish it out!

Last but not least, we got our first ceiling medallion up! This is in our master bedroom. The job is not nearly as easy as I had originally thought it would be. This too will be a multi-step project (still not yet completed). We got the medallion up and secured, but we had to spackle all the screw holes and allow that to dry. Next steps will be sanding and painting the medallion and then installing the fixture for good! Can't wait!