Our First Night
So our birthdays and anniversary have passed and Labor Day has come and gone. In that time we've accomplished, well, not much more than last post. The master bedroom is 90% done. The guest room was recently textured and mostly primed.
clean canvas... sort of
The kitchen is awaiting some color. The living room has one wall and the corners of grey as well as red corners.
red.
I finally finished stripping all, well most, of the paint off of the window casings in the living room. It still needs some wood putty and sanding before it can be primed and painted.
hard work.
And after all that painting we have to install the baseboards and prime and paint the doors. Chris' parents will be back next week to finish the lights and ceiling fans. We could also use their help installing the new toilets.
We spent our first night at the house on Sunday. We brought our air mattress. We had taken off the doors to the bedroom for painting and haven't replaced them yet. So it was a little cold and drafty. Other than that it wasn't too bad. We might start doing weekends overnight there. Hopefully we'll be done enough by the end of the month to move in. We'll see.
Rants: So we're taking down the blinds in the guest bedroom and there's like 5 different sets of brackets and random nails in the side of the casing. Chris found a screw in a door, painted over, not attaching anything to the door. I found a thumb tack in the window frame painted over. All we have to say is "Why???" Why are there 2 sawed off nails (or screws, can't tell) in the door jam of the bedroom, sticking out far enough to scrape the door? Why did they move the door from swinging out, to swinging in??? Why are there different size and style screws in the hinges?? Why, on a bedroom door that locks with a key, do you need a hook latch as well?? And why do you put a pad lock on a wooden gate from the outside with no way of opening it from the inside? There's so many more. The world may never find the answers.
the offending random screws on a door that was switched to the opposite side on a door that doesn't fit that way.
mystery metal sticking out from the casings.
clean canvas... sort of
The kitchen is awaiting some color. The living room has one wall and the corners of grey as well as red corners.
red.
I finally finished stripping all, well most, of the paint off of the window casings in the living room. It still needs some wood putty and sanding before it can be primed and painted.
hard work.
And after all that painting we have to install the baseboards and prime and paint the doors. Chris' parents will be back next week to finish the lights and ceiling fans. We could also use their help installing the new toilets.
We spent our first night at the house on Sunday. We brought our air mattress. We had taken off the doors to the bedroom for painting and haven't replaced them yet. So it was a little cold and drafty. Other than that it wasn't too bad. We might start doing weekends overnight there. Hopefully we'll be done enough by the end of the month to move in. We'll see.
Rants: So we're taking down the blinds in the guest bedroom and there's like 5 different sets of brackets and random nails in the side of the casing. Chris found a screw in a door, painted over, not attaching anything to the door. I found a thumb tack in the window frame painted over. All we have to say is "Why???" Why are there 2 sawed off nails (or screws, can't tell) in the door jam of the bedroom, sticking out far enough to scrape the door? Why did they move the door from swinging out, to swinging in??? Why are there different size and style screws in the hinges?? Why, on a bedroom door that locks with a key, do you need a hook latch as well?? And why do you put a pad lock on a wooden gate from the outside with no way of opening it from the inside? There's so many more. The world may never find the answers.
the offending random screws on a door that was switched to the opposite side on a door that doesn't fit that way.
mystery metal sticking out from the casings.
posted by Melissa & Chris at 8:58 AM
1 Comments:
CONGRATULATIONS!!! You've accomplished so much in so little time. We're all very excited for you.
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