More work complete

Last weekend I finished removing stain and poly (more like old motor oil) from the left side of the dining room trim. Tonight I will be putting the final coat of poly on. It was a long tedious process and I think I'll be taking a small break from refinishing wood. Still much better than sanding! Which reminds me, we need to get back to it this weekend and just get those stairs over with once and for all. It's so dreadful. I might just be making it worse than it is though.



Quentin re insulated the walls in the gues bedroom and installed new sheet rock. It looks so good. Next we will be re sheet rocking the ceiling in there- my favorite least favorite thing to do. Oh and the coolest thing- and by far the easiest/ most fun, would be that I sprayed the heting grates in the living room and dining room. I didn't want them to pop so much so I sprayed them an antiques brown color rather than brushed nickel. They look so amazing. Once I get my camera back I'll post some pictures.

We took a break

We took a break from sanding this weekend. We were both just so sick of inhaling and cleaning dust week after week. We finished all of the stain and poly coats on the windows above the stairs and they look really good! We also began stripping the pink/ purple butterfly wallpaper in what used to be the outdated wood paneling room. We pulled out the old gross insulation and reinsulated as well. This weekend we are going to put up some sheet rock and do some hole/ ceiling repair as well. We will also do a little more sanding. Grr.

Fun with sheet rock

Last night we began sheet rocking the dining room. Putting the sheet rock in isn't all that bad, it's the mudding/ sanding I'm worried about. We're never going to finish before our move-in of next week. We need help mudding and sanding... Bad! Otherwise it will be countless cups of coffee and 16 hour days. Seriously. I'm not looking forward to this.

I'm excited to get everything up though. It's been difficult working 8 hours and then coming directly to our home and putting more hours in. The days we accomplish most are on the weekends, so we are looking forward to working our fingers to the bone. I'm excited to see how far we get. I'll post pics of the ceilings once they are up.