The Upstairs is ALMOST FINISHED!!!

We had a very productive weekend! I scraped the entire popcorn ceiling pictured below in my last post. Under the popcorn ceiling was 2 layers of wallpaper. Luckily I was able to remove everything in about 5 hours. I've already mudded and primed the ceiling. It should be all ready for paint next weekend. I also primed and painted the walk in closet that had some ugly wood paneling. This is the last room that has been longing for some human touch and it should be complete by next weekend.

We also are also finished sanding the windows in the dining room- so I can FINALLY hang up my $300 worth of roller shades on 2 windows. Geeze.

I'll post photos next week when we are all finished so make sure to check back.

Busy bees

The guest bedroom just keeps getting closer and closer to completion! Quentin framed in a new closet and ran electric. The ceiling has about 1 more coat of mud to go. What do you think of our new closet? We put in his and hers because the closet is shaped so funny that this just makes it alot more accesible.



I have been using antique wood refinisher on our windows in the dining room. I spent $280 on 2 new roller shades for the dining room and I want the windows to be refinished before I install them. It wouldn't make sense to pull them back down 2 months down. So I recruited 2 friends to come over and help me last weekend. Ugh. This is how far we got:

If I ever said the refinisher was easy, I was just happy to be doing something else. It's not the easiest task and it smells horribly. I am almost halfway done so hopefully I'll just get it done quickly. I don't know how much more of it I can bare.

Ta Daa!

Here are a few blurry photos of the buffet. We just have one more pull to put on a drawer and then we are completely finished. Speaking of finish, the finish is alot more vibrant than what it looks like in the photos. The blur and sun make it look a little dull.


What do you think?

I ripped out the closet in the hallway. Eventually this little area will be part of the bathroom expansion when we get the 10-15k we need to redo it. Probably next pay check. (yeah right)

Atleast there is finally some light in the hall.

I also finished scraping wall paper- Finally! Next week we'll start priming the hall walls and painting the ceiling. We are going to wait to paint the walls and trim until we have refinished the floors. I really don't feel like dusting off walls.

I almost forgot. Here are some pictures I took of the dogs the other day. Tito is at the doctor today because he has some mites that have almost cause him an infection. I'm waiting to hear more details but I feel so bad for the poor guy. His little eyes was really swollen bad.


Roscoe is doing good. These guys are really expensive too. I love my house and I love my dogs. Why do the things we love cost so much?

A sigh of relief

Well, I am very happy that I have the bathroom livable. I am now motivated to complete the rest of the upstairs to make it, well to make it up to my standards. The entire upstairs hallway is next on the list. The carpet was removed from the floor and what's left is hideous floors in desperate need of some sanding. We also have this awesome wallpaper (I'm assuming it's from the 30s or 40s). I've got most of the wallpaper scraped from the hallway. I just have about 4 small sections left. Here is what I'm working with:

The completed scraped walls


Now this is pretty interesting. See this lovely door in the back ground?


This door leads to a closet that someone created. Guess what's inside this closet?


A window. Actually it's the only window in the hallway. That means no natural light in there unless this closet door is open. So after I'm finished scraping all of the other wallpaper, this wall/ door will be coming out. I'll put some nice blinds/ drapes and a chair in the corner for right now. I'll hopefully get to this by this weekend.