I think I'm having too much fun..

I'm really sorry for the jumping around room to room posting but.. thats actually how we do things. We get home from work and start fixing up whatever we feel like.

Today.. I had a feeling..

This little baby cost me 40 big ones at Home Depot. Its not your traditional wallpaper though.. I didn't want someone to go through what I went through to remove the wallpaper in this room. This wallpaper just peels right off when you dont want it on your wall anymore..









A little before action..







A little after shot..





Yay! I dunno about you, but I'm diggin it!


I have a lot of ideas for this room. Thomas said I could do whatever I want! ... He has created a monster..

I always enjoy popcorn..

Except when its on our ceiling.

Thats right everyone. Our very 60's ceiling is gone and heres how it went down in picture form..

This was the best BEFORE shot I could find.. Okay its a little dramatic.. this is what was underneath our lovely room divider and the whole ceiling is not like this.. but you can see the old texture really well around the brown scrungy looking stuff.. :)



Cue dexter.. I mean Thomas.. We taped up the area floor to ceiling in poly to decrease the amount of dust that would travel through the rest of the house. I'm not sure what it would have been like withOUT the poly but I dont want to know.. because I'm still finding ceiling dust where ceiling dust should not be. And the smell was awful. Not a garbage-io smell but like thick heavy dust smell that you dont want to enter your lungs..



A little messy..



Slightly better..





After much discussion we ended up hiring someone to do the rest. Somethings are best left to the pros.







A close look at the overall finished product. We are really happy with our new knock down ceiling and it makes SUCH a big diffrence!

Goodbye Lino, Goodbye carpet

Remember when I gave a small subtle hint about our floors? Well heres a bit of detail!


The start of a very messy situation..



The plywood and lino were pried up. Why? The floors are now even throughout the living room and hallway for the NEW floors to go in..



What we discovered under it all.. Why would you ever want to replace this beautiful even OLDER lino.. I just can't even imagine...







And here is the ritual known to all men.. Stand back, look, and enjoy the work you have just done.





The carpet really didn't seem all that bad.. until we ripped them up and discovered the grung. Yuck! Adios!







From floor to ceiling, this house is getting a makeova! *hinthinthint*

Mother Nature... Why??

While I look out at this..



It makes me feel slightly better remembering back to only a few days ago when we went to a greenhouse and got these..





Dont worry these babies are warm and cozy in the garage.. my tomatoes on the other hand? Well.. they are currently under a lawnmower box and burlap (see first picture).. I just hope they survive this mess.

New Kitchen Hardware

I was looking for a quick DIY fix so I decided to get diffrent hardware for my cupboards. The old hardware was white, plastic, and silver boringness. We found all of our new stainless steal chicy hardware at home depot and cost us $116.00 plus a box of $2.99 screws. All of the drawers got pulls instead of knobs so it required a little measuring to drill an extra hole in each panel but in the end, totally worth it! Here are some pictures!


Old Blah Hardware





Hard at work


New and Improved

May Long Weekend Updates

This weekend has been quite productive so far around the house.

We have officially started the guest/reading room and I'm so excited to get it done!

First up, wallpaper removal. I know your jealous but I'll try to keep the bragging to a minimum. Strangely enough Thomas disappeared for this little project.. ODD!

I consider myself lucky with this room in that there is only a teeny tiny strip of wallpaper opposed to a full wall.. which DOES exist in my bathroom. It's a good thing I'm getting some practice.. right? If your thinking about tackling an ugly wallpaper job at your house.. heres how I did mine!

This took about 3hours in total and I used the following tools:

• Sponge
  
• Bowl of steaming hot water
  
• Gloves
  
• Scraper
  

The water was boiling HOT. I soaked the paper once all over and removed the top layer. I was left with the really messy adhesive still stuck to the wall.

 

I then soaked the adhesive paper twice over with the sponge and let it sit for 15minnutes before applying another layer of HOT water. After making sure it was nice and soggy I started scraping.

 

 

If you take anything away from this it is to make sure you absolutely S-O-A-K this stuff. It's really messy but it will save your walls.

 

 

 

So the next step is the strip of chocolate brown paint and we have Neapolitan ice cream walls..

 

Just kidding.. but we did start our painting and I can't wait to show you how it turns out..

 

Oh and by the way I found Thomas…

 

 

Hey summer, we're ready when you are.

 

It was terrible knowing you..

Onto our very first order of business. Have you ever walked into a house and thought "Oh my word, you should rip that out." ? Well maybe not. BUT WE DID. The night we found out this house was ours we knew the first project we were going to tackle. I'm going to show you the before and you can probably guess what we did..




So? You think we ripped out the hideous wooden room divider thingy? Yes?? What you think its ugly??? .. Us too. So its gone. And heres how it all went down..

There was a lot of discussion of whether is was a smart idea taking it out. No there wasn't. That was a lie.. I thought if we took it down the house would collapse because this ugly thing was obviously supporting the entire building. I couldn't even get the last word out before I heard a hammer making contact with wood and bam. I guess I was wrong. Timber..






Since this room is far from done I wont share an official after picture. You will just have to wait and see whats next.


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