Oy Gevalt

We are racing around the clock to finish hanging a new sheet rocked ceiling, scrape wall paper and dismantle the closet in the guest bedroom. Next Monday we are getting our upstairs floors professionally sanded! We will be doing the guest bedroom, office and hallway. I found the contractor through another blogger on here. His prices are very inexpensive and he's the only person I've met yet who I'd trust in my house without me being there.

It will be nice to walk on the floors without having my feet feel dirty even after I've just washed the floors. We were planning on sanding the floors ourselves but I'm going to leave this one to the pros. We have quite a few repairs that need to be done on the floors and I just want it done correctly. I just don't want another large dreadful project. Luckily he will be able to have the floors done within 3 days.

I also ordered 2 new roller shades for the dining room. Who knew shades could be so expensive? I spent $286 on two of them- custom of course, and that's the best price I found. They are going to look really great! I can't wait to get rid of our smoke yellow shades that currently adorn our windows. I guess we'll just have to get 2 at a time. I'm having trouble finding good colors in for shade fabric. Most manufacturers have limited and boring colors. =(

Almost Ready For the Holidays

The stair are complete! The trim is back on the baseboards and it all just looks amazing. I am so happy this is complete, and what a great result! We also got our Christmas tree up. It still needs a skirt but I'm having a tough time pay $40 for something that will probably just get peed on. I think we may just use pee pads for a skirt this year ;)


There is a little dust on the stairs from putting the trim back up.


Doesn't it look great? This will be my last post about the stairs I just wanted everyone to see the photos of our victory one last time- complete! Oh yeah, check out my favorite comparison yet.


What a difference!

Getting the homestead ready

We are almost finished with the stairs. The stairs themselves are complete. This weekend we finished the trim that goes right above the base molding. That should be up tonight! We also did alot of cleaning. We have my family Christmas this Saturday and Quentin's over Christmas. We made the guest room functional again so that there is a spare room. I have been soo busy with the house and decorating that I haven't even bought 1 single Christmas gift yet. Yikes- I better get on that.

Help!

Does anyone know where I can get quality roman shades in Minneapolis without spending $200 per shade? JC Penneys is supposed to be cheap but they are still about $150 per shade for what we want. Target doesn't have a color selction other than your basic crayola box colors. Grr... After all is said and done I may just open up my own affordable roman shade shop. This is ridiculous.

they're done- almost

Finally!!! That took up about the last 2 months of my life. But they are done and they look amazing. Just 3 more coats of poly on a few of the stairs. In case you forgot what the stairs looked like before we began here is a refresher.



Why on earth would we ever refinish such beauty, right?

View from the top

View from the landing


Just a few more coats of poly and they are complete. We decided to stain them a little darker just because the stairs had so many imperfections from all of the staples/scratches. I think they look pretty darn amazing!

Hooray!

The stairs should be done this weekend and I'll have photos for all of you on Monday!!!