Happy Atumnal Equinox!! Sorry it’s been so long since the last post, but we’ve been very busy. I must be doing something right with this blog, though, because my spam filter is catching quite a few spam posts the last couple of weeks. I just wish more people would respond to the posts, or use the link to send an email.
We decided that the first room we need to re-do, and immediately, was the master bedroom, mostly because that king size bed is such a pain to take apart, move and get back together. The room was in sad shape. Old 70s wooden panelling on one of the walls (painted over, naturally), and ugly painted over wallpaper borders along the ceiling and about chair rail level. Last weekend, we started our first major project on the house.
It was supposed to be a kind of catch-up and high priority kind of weekend. Saturday, we drove up to Silverdale to pick up our Costco membership cards, then drove up a little farther and caught the Bainbridge ferry over to Seattle. We drove up to visit our previous hosts for a while, and to pick up any mail they had for us. The mail forwarding update is working now, so we shouldn’t have to do that particular task again soon. But we do like visiting with Bill and Esther. We’re going to go over again the next time our honorary god-daughter comes back to visit, and they’ll be coming over for the house-warming party.
A couple of weeks ago, Jeffrey was checking out different places for new flooring for the house, and found a place right here in Bremerton with great prices, and stock of a particular wood floor that was on clearance. They had enough for two of the bedrooms, so we wound up buying their remaining stock. Sunday, Jeffrey laid the new floor while I was in the backyard putting up chicken-wire fencing so we could finally let the dogs off of their tethers. It only took a few days for them to find a shallow place on the north fence to dig under and get out of the yard. An alert neighbor noticed them and let me know, and I got the dogs back in the yard, found the hole and plugged it. They were on the tethers for another few days while I made sure there were no other such areas, and to hopefully start training them that if they get out of the yard on their own, there will be consequences. Hopefully, not fatal (think cars and trucks).
Back to our first project. We had the foresight to take “Before” pictures, and as soon as we finish the final touches, we’ll have “After” pictures, and I’ll post them somewhere on the main website.
The floor was gorgeous. We had to take the bed apart again and get it out before we could do the floor. Jeffrey decided that while we were doing the new floor, we might as well tackle the walls. That was this weekend’s project. Yesterday (Saturday), we spent the day pulling down the faux wooden panelling, finished the drywall underneath properly, pulled out as much of the wallpaper as we could, and evened out the walls with joint compound and spackle. That had to dry several hours before we could do any more, so we invited our friend (and realtor) John over and watched a few movies that he hadn’t seen before. An enjoyable evening all around.
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Today (Sunday), we were working almost from the time we got up until 8:00 tonight. We had to do some more joint compound in a few places and let it dry, then smooth out the walls. Jeffrey did the detail for the priming, and then did some work for his Florida job while I did the broad roller work. After that dried, round two with Jeffrey doing the detail work again with paint, then we mixed up the paint with a texture treatment and I did the rest. The problem with using a textured paint is that you tend to get a lot of paint splattering, not only on the floor, but also on yourself. One gallon of the textured paint was enough to give the whole bedroom a decent coat, but there were some areas that needed more of the texture treatment, and where I didn’t get the paint on thick enought with the first coat. So, let the first coat dry, take a short break and catch up on my internet stuff, then mix the second gallon and start round three of painting.
I finished round three of painting while Jeffrey followed along behind cleaning up the new floor. I finally convinced Jeffrey that the new rule for any other room we do needs to be walls first, then floor. While Jeffrey finished cleaning up the floors, I took all of the outlet covers outside to strip the paint off of them. I can’t believe how lazy some people are. It takes all of 60 seconds to remove a wall plate and paint underneath it. They just painted over the plates, the electrical outlets and the light switches. By the time we finished, it was almost 8.
Some lazy downtime to watch TV and have dinner. Tomorrow, we put the baseboards back on, the bed back together, and get some artwork up on the walls we just refinished and painted. I haven’t broached the subject with Jeffrey yet, but next weekend HAS to be a relax and unwind weekend. Oh, and we need to decide on a date for the house-warming, then design invitations (with detailed directions on how to find the house) and start getting them out.
I haven’t checked with Jeffrey yet, but I thought it might be nice to invite my family up for Thanksgiving weekend. Let them see the new house, get caught up, and get Lori’s husband’s input and suggestions for the other projects we’re lining up for ourselves and things like the eavestrough installation, we leave it to professionals from eavestroughinstallers.ca/hamilton. We’ll have to play it by ear, though. I understand last winter up here was a bit of a bitch, and we don’t know what this year is going to bring yet. Snow in the mountains would almost preclude a visit by car, and airfare is way too expensive for that many people to come up with.
Hopefully, I’ll have more next weekend.
[NOTE: post edited 9/22/08 for continuity and spelling/grammar)
