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House Chaos

We have been crazy busy lately, so I really need to catch up some pictures... But I'm at work, so those will have to wait.

We are still working on the bed. Thomas has the frame put together for the the headboard and will be doing the finishing work on it this weekend. I am excited to get it in the bedroom. It will provide a ton more storage and look nice :)

We took the furniture out of the 'dressing room' and used adhesive stripper on the floors to get the sticky black tar adhesive up. I stripped all of the woodwork in there to create a clean surface to paint on. It was a LOT of work, but will be worth it to have clean looking trim. The previous owners had painted layer upon layer and there were drips and screw holes everywhere from window treatments. They had also painted the baseboards up to the carpet, so there was gross carpet in the paint.We will also be painting the walls and ceiling in that room. We chose Sherwin William's Studio Blue Green for that room and I'm excited to get it up on the walls. It's going to look great!

We will be renting a floor sander this weekend and hope to finish the floors in the dressing room, the blue room upstairs and the bathroom. I love having the finished floors... They are so much easier to clean and look so nice. We still have to rip out the vanity and toilet in the bathroom to prep for refinishing the floors, so that will be a task. We have also purchased some clear fir that matches the bathroom and laundry areas to patch the spots where the previous owner put plywood...

We plan on pulling up the linoleum in the kitchen coming up here pretty soon and hopefully will be able to salvage the floors in there and refinish them. I think our white cupboards will look great against the dark walnut stain. I'm really hoping they are not too damaged.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, I will post some this weekend to show our progress!


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  1. Sharon KwilterMarch 22, 2013 at 11:35 AM

    It's great that you're working so hard that you don't have time to blog. I wish I had that problem! =)

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  2. The Bois BungalowMarch 24, 2013 at 6:03 PM

    It's been so busy! We work all day and then come home and work on the house until we go to bed... We got a bunch more done this weekend too!

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