Pantry and progress

The pantry is completed!  Check another thing off the list.  Dwayne did a great job and I'm very excited to begin filling it up.  I cannot wait to start canning again to see all those freshly canned goods on the shelves.

He also finished the shoe cubbie in the master closet.  This closet is ridiculously large for us as neither one of us is a clothes horse in any fashion.  But there was no way to make it any different because of the way we designed the house.  I was under the impression that when we decided to go with Muse Construction that our plans would either have a professional draw up blueprints and have suggestions or Ronnie would do that himself.  Nope, that didnt happen so the plans stayed as we drew them which wasnt horrible but I would have been open to having the first guest bedroom not have that awkward closet in the corner.  It's fine, after all it is a guest bedroom.  Neither of us have parents that are still living so it's not like someone will be moving in.  

Heres the shoe cubbie.

We could of had Dwayne build out the closet but it kinda seemed like a waste as I didnt really have an idea of what I wanted AND we have a bunch of that Closet Maid stuff that we can use and set up how we like so we decided to go that route. 

Dwayne also started the baseboards and trim around the interior doors so the house is beginning to look more like a house.

On another note we are almost finished with our other project which is the dining room table.

This is the underside of the table.  The plan was to look at all the voids from the bottom to see which ones went all the way through.  We would tape them up and then flip the table to the correct side and fill up those voids with casting resin.  Casting resin is that thick clear plastic like finish you often see on restaurant tables or bar tops.  So that is exactly what we did.

So that's what it looks like from the top and the second picture is after the top set up and we needed to fill in some voids on the sides of the table so we had to tip it up till it set and then do the other side just like it.

Then because we had extra casting resin and some little dips in the table top we decided to do a very thin layer of casting resin over the complete top.  It would level out the top of the table and then we could begin our polyurethane coats.  

Here's the table top sitting on the base.  As you can see it still has a bit of sanding and a couple more coats of polyurethane and it will be finished.