What a bright idea...

So its been a week since our last post. I guess we got busy. Well, the elder Franciscos have been visiting us for the last week and a half. They get to go home today. Chris' dad has been a lot of help installing the rest of the electrical wiring in the ceiling for our lights. Chris' mom helped us with the shelf liner in the kitchen and amazingly chipped off like 5-6 rows of kitchen floor for us too!! Great job!! We just have the stuff that's the fridge and stove are sitting on.

We finally decided on lighting. We're putting at least three 5" recessed lights in the kitchen and a ceiling fan in the living room and master bedroom. There's one more space above the kitchen sink but the crawl space is too small to work in that corner of the building. Well have to install something from under the ceiling. We also obtained two 6" recessed lights from Chris' great auntie Tess. We might put those on either side of the ceiling fan in the living room. Here's some pix.











This is the one for the bedroom. Its a 42" blade surface mount for smaller rooms.











This one will go nicely in our living room. It has a 52" blade but we'll probably surface mount it as well. Our ceiling height is only about 8" and they say you should have at least 7" between the blades and the floor. Its just the right size.

The recessed lights are pretty simple. But since we can't put it above the sink, we have to find something else. We moved the the placement of two if the fixtures so I had to do a patch job. Its more difficult doing it on a ceiling upside down. I'd hate to have been Michaelangelo doing the Sistine Chapel. But we got our patches in place and no one will be the wiser once its finshed and painted.























We were thinking of putting these in our laundry room. They have some matching singles for our mudroom that might do just fine.

We also started attempting to strip the paint off of the window frames. Let me tell you... its a pain in the buttox. You slather this stinky jelly consistency stuff on the wood, wait... but don't wait too long, then scrape scrape scrape. If you wait too long, it'll harden. If you don't wait long enough, it wouldn't've done its job yet. All the while with a respirator on so you don't pass out from the fumes. So you're breathing like Vader with rubber gloves and this plastic putty knife or stiff brush, scraping away at this gunky stuff that doesn't want to come off and its water based so it starts bringing up the grains of the wood and your knife keeps catching on the grain to the point where you think the wood is going to chip off if you press too hard but if you don't press hard enough the paint won't come off. *sigh* We gave up. We did half a window and cleaned up. The other two windows has dried on paint stripper so those 3 windows are the only one's we're stripping paint from. The others will get a TSP bath, maybe some light sandpaper, primer and paint.

Oh yeah, we got our baseboards over the weekend as well. A friend of a friend is getting us a deal (hopefully). We went to pick it up the Friday before the 4th and there was a goof in the price. So they called people and finally decided to just let us take the baseboards home and they'll work out the price on Tuesday. Well, its Friday again and I haven't heard anything about the price. Hopefully its still the discounted price. But the wood is supposed to be higher quality but at Home Depot prices, so if they charge us full price, I don't mind paying for the better stuff.

Hmmm.... what else. I finished texturing the master bedroom and we started priming the pink walls. It took a few coats but it's covering pretty good. I think the nap of the roller was too short, so we bought a bigger one. It should work better to get in the crevices of the texture. We might start priming the living room soon too.

Now we're taking the weekend off and going camping.