Sunday, February 10, 2013

Home Renos 2.8

Another week, another update on the renos.  This week was a fairly productive week.  We were able to finish all the painting on the main floor and start putting the living room back together! YAY!  Here's a look at our week...

We began Tuesday night with John cutting all the quarter round and placing it around the room. 




Wednesday night, I finished the first coat of paint on the baseboard and John put the trim up around the patio door and nailed down all the quarter round...



...and we put the dining room table back in! (unfortunately we didn't buy enough felts to put on all the chairs, so we could only bring up 4 chairs)


Thursday night, Paul came over to help John finish the second coat of paint on the baseboards...which I didn't take a picture of because the look the same as the last picture of the baseboards above.

Friday night, we went out in search of an area rug to put down before putting all the furniture in.  We were not able to find one that we liked, but instead found curtains we liked!  We went to put them up when we got home, unfortunately they were too short, SO no pictures from Friday either.

Saturday, we started off cleaning out the room and floor.  Then we brought the couch back up, put the mirror over the fireplace again, put the coffee table back and put the curtain rod put.



We then went out and exchanged the curtains for longer ones, which I had to hem, and put them up.  Looks good!


 While I hemmed the curtains, John cleaned the kitchen out.  We have space to eat again!


We also moved the bookcase back and a few other decorative things into the living room.




Picture I made almost a year ago from a pin on Pinterest.
It was meant for the basement, but looks much better upstairs. 

We still have to clean up a bit and bring some more things back into the living room, but for the most part it is done.  We will be moving onto the stairs within the next couple of weeks!



Sunday, February 3, 2013

Home Renos 2.7

Another week, another reno update!  We didn't do much work on the living room throughout the week, other than John working on the one patch in the ceiling.  Yesterday though, we spent the majority of the day working on the living room and had some real progress!  

John preparing the ceiling to paint after his patch job.

Ceiling complete!

On Saturday, John ripped up the rest of the carpet and took it outside, while I pulled out the majority of the staples and pulled up the boards with nails that help the carpet down, John did some of this near the end of the day.   I also did most of the taping around the baseboards and started painting the first coat of paint on them.

We went to Home Depot in the early afternoon to buy the quarter round and door trim for the patio door.  Since we had dinner/evening plans, we didn't get around to putting them up, but we did get the rest of the electrical outlits and light switches changed and the covers put back on.  Even that made a huge difference!

Here are some pictures from the work we completed.  The living room has drastically changed without the carpet!

Ta Da!  Taping complete in the dining room....

...and part of the living room!

Living Room floor mostly completed.
   
No more carpet!

John pulling up the edging
between the hall and the bathroom.

Our goal this week is to get everything completed so that we can (hopefully) have the furniture moved back into the living and dining room by Friday! So stay tuned....