Almost there!

We had a very productive weekend! We finished the MASSIVE amount of sanding on our hallway and are almost finished with the room. Since it has been so long since the place has been taken care of there were cracks and holes pretty much everywhere. Especially underneath the wallpaper. Every inch of wall was pretty much spackled or completely mudded. Also we had a large patch job next to the bathroom where a door had been covered over for a closet and never really got a proper fix. I trimmed out most of the walls in primer, I think my maintenance guys call that cutting in, I'll just say trimmed out. Tonight we'll probably finish sanding the office and do any final mudding that we might have missed. That means tomorrow we roll out the walls with primer.

After we we are done with that we will begin sanding the stairs. Thank god! They are such an eye sore right now. Soon enough they'll be a back sore. heheh. I also primed the back vestibule which leads in the kitchen. The vestibule has wall paneling up. I painted it the same color as the sun porch. I figured since they're both entrances, and they are such small spaces, that the color wouldn't be too repetative. I also don't want it to look like a fun house with too many different colors. I just need to pick up more high gloss white paint for the trim in the vestibule and paint the ceiling. Once that's complete I'm replacing the carpeting with the same gray carpet tile in the sun porch. I'm not a huge fan of them but it looks nice and it's good enough for now. Especially since we are still doing work which could mess up something nicer.

Things finally seem to be moving along so much faster. We just seem to be knocking out projects left and right lately. I don't know what we would do if we had no motivation. Alot of people forewarned us that we would get sick of working on the house when we bought it. They thought things would never get done. I can imagine most people would lose steam pretty quick and I'm just thankful we haven't.

Before & After

So this is the last post about the buffet since there has been so many. I was looking through old photos from when we purchased the house last night and stumbled across this photo.

If you look closely you can see that one of the drawers were chewed on all corners by an animal. You can barely tell there was ever an issue now. Here is a better photo of the complete buffet.

We sanded and stained the woodwork around the windows above just to make sure it didn't look mismatched. I just thought I'd share this with everyone

Priming our lives away.

So, this week we are not only going to be priming our hallway- which won't be too tough. We are also priming our office- which is a lovely shade of shit blue. "There is no such color as shit blue," you're thinking. Well, there sure is.


Ok, so maybe it's not that bad, it just doesn't belong on a wall. I have a feeling that this color will be bleeding through a few times, thus the priming. Not only will we be priming the walls in here, we'll also be priming the ceiling.

Maybe that's why the color is so overbearing. Don't you love that brass 1 bulb light fixture? We'll be upgrading that as well. After we prime the walls we'll have to wait until the floors are refinished to paint. This is the other room in need of some sanding and poly. It's going to look so good!

On a happier note- look what is growing out back by our A/C

Our very own corn on de cob. Isn't it cute? When I was pulling weeds I thought I would save it. Pretty random.

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?

So so busy

What a busy summer. Every weekend has just been crammed with one thing or another. I'm still working on the hall project and this weekend we are offically finished with the buffet. What a long- painstaking process. But hey- it was all worth it. It looks amazing.

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.

A small dillema

Here are the photos of our new bathroom! I just bought that shower curtain and I'm sort of not feeling the flow. Should I return it and just go for a plain white shower curtain? I need some opinions here!

Here is a photo of the lovely purple that used to dominate our bathroom. I guess I've got some touch up to do.

Another angle


New lighting! I'm thinking that mirror needs to be flip right side up.

So what do you think?

Here are the photos of our landscaping! For the larger photos, just click to view the entire picture. Doesn't the bedlining and mulch make it look so much better? We still have quite a few
more plants to add (that's why the mulch doesn't come all the way up)



If you scroll down you can see just how much it's grown since May.

If you scroll all the way back to January you can see the weed bushes that took over our landscaping. My we've come so far in such little time!