We have FOUR COFFEE TABLES in the basement. Four. FOUR! That's one more than we have people in the house.
Bulk garbage collection day cannot come soon enough.
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Monday, March 19, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
Worst. Bloggers. Ever.
OK, so we've done SO MUCH. And there are pictures. They just aren't, you know, on here.
Since the last time I posted, we got the living room organized, got the dining room organized, got the spare room organized, hosted a bazillion* family members for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, finished painting and organizing the basement, took down the ugly-ass wallpaper in the front hallway, de-organized the dining room, de-organized the basement, painted the front hallway, re-organized the dining room, painted the powder room (including my first foray into plumbing! I replaced the sink and faucet all by myself! Although it isn't, technically, finished or to code yet!), replaced most of the ceiling light fixtures (although, funnily enough, NOT the two I referred to in my previous post), organized the linen closet and tripled the shelf space, painted the upstairs bathroom, painted the upstairs hallway, and I'm currently sitting in the living room, which is, guess what, IN SHAMBLES because I'm in the process of painting it, too.
*number may not be accurate
Once the living room is done, the only room in the house that won't have been painted/improved is the spare room, which still has the nasty 1970'2 carpet and the boring white walls. But the rest of the house will look fantastic! Or at least finished. Right now I could just go for finished.
I make no promises, but I will attempt to load up some pictures in the next few days.
Things on the to-do list:
Since the last time I posted, we got the living room organized, got the dining room organized, got the spare room organized, hosted a bazillion* family members for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, finished painting and organizing the basement, took down the ugly-ass wallpaper in the front hallway, de-organized the dining room, de-organized the basement, painted the front hallway, re-organized the dining room, painted the powder room (including my first foray into plumbing! I replaced the sink and faucet all by myself! Although it isn't, technically, finished or to code yet!), replaced most of the ceiling light fixtures (although, funnily enough, NOT the two I referred to in my previous post), organized the linen closet and tripled the shelf space, painted the upstairs bathroom, painted the upstairs hallway, and I'm currently sitting in the living room, which is, guess what, IN SHAMBLES because I'm in the process of painting it, too.
*number may not be accurate
Once the living room is done, the only room in the house that won't have been painted/improved is the spare room, which still has the nasty 1970'2 carpet and the boring white walls. But the rest of the house will look fantastic! Or at least finished. Right now I could just go for finished.
I make no promises, but I will attempt to load up some pictures in the next few days.
Things on the to-do list:
- new curtains for the bay window to go with the new colour scheme
- find some nice artwork for the living room and master bedroom
- childproof the Toddler of Terror's room so that if she takes it into her head to climb out of her crib in the middle of the night she won't have anything in there she can use to kill herself
- replace or paint ugly-ass ceiling fan
- replace dining room light fixture
- replace light fixtures in spare room and Toddler of Terror's room
- get quotes on new carpeting
- call plumber to replace half-assed temporary solution to misaligned drain problem in powder room (I actually know exactly how to fix the problem there - the new sink has a drain in a slightly different place than the old one and the trap no longer lines up correctly - I'm just scared to try and fix it because I suspect I'll screw it up, so for now there's a flexible rubber tube connecting the drain to the trap)
- look into refinishing the dining room floor
- paint spare room
- lay laminate in spare room
- get new kitchen faucet
- dream about new kitchen
I'm sure there are 18 thousand more things to do that I'm not thinking of right now.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Oops - no, we didn't stop renovating!
No, we're still here, still working on the house. We just haven't blogged for a while.
Got a whole bunch of catch up to do, since the dining room was finished, then we added a bunch of furniture (and a fancy new TV) to the living room, and now the dining room is full of boxes and old living room furniture. So the dining room is full of crap, although we did get the walls and trim painted and it looks very nice.
The spare room was organized, then my parents showed up with a single bed for it (thanks, mom & dad!), and between the sudden reduction in space and rearranging the living room, the spare room is now in total shambles again and needs to be organized. But the living room looks fabulous!
And the basement has been painted, the carpet pulled out and replaced with peel & stick tiles, and the stairs painted. The trim needs to be painted and the stairs need another coat of paint. But the real problem is there's a water leak in one corner that needs to be fixed, and that meant taking down some of the paneling, plus there are a whole bunch of boxes that need to go into storage. Also some broken glass. And a pile of Christmas presents for the baby. So it's a total wreck. And since most of the stuff that was in the living room is moving down there, we can't get the dining room cleared out until the basement is finished.
In minor projects, we painted the ugly vanity in the half bath. Now it's not aggressively offensive anymore, just kind of there. I want to paint that bathroom (since at the moment the colour is a kind of flesh-coloured peach, which, EWWWW. And I think the trim is blue. It's not horrible, but it's not nice.).
Other things to do: replace the ventilation fan in the bathroom. This has been an ongoing project for, oh, 3 months now. Also we have a couple of light fixtures that are nicer than the ones in the baby's room and the spare room, and I just haven't gotten around to swapping them.
And the linen closet is a massive disaster.
And we have to find someone who wants our old sofa and is willing to get it out of here so we can bring in the couch we are taking from my inlaws, which is a much nicer piece of furniture.
Oh god, it's all just TOO MUCH!
I'll put up some pictures later today. Maybe.
Got a whole bunch of catch up to do, since the dining room was finished, then we added a bunch of furniture (and a fancy new TV) to the living room, and now the dining room is full of boxes and old living room furniture. So the dining room is full of crap, although we did get the walls and trim painted and it looks very nice.
The spare room was organized, then my parents showed up with a single bed for it (thanks, mom & dad!), and between the sudden reduction in space and rearranging the living room, the spare room is now in total shambles again and needs to be organized. But the living room looks fabulous!
And the basement has been painted, the carpet pulled out and replaced with peel & stick tiles, and the stairs painted. The trim needs to be painted and the stairs need another coat of paint. But the real problem is there's a water leak in one corner that needs to be fixed, and that meant taking down some of the paneling, plus there are a whole bunch of boxes that need to go into storage. Also some broken glass. And a pile of Christmas presents for the baby. So it's a total wreck. And since most of the stuff that was in the living room is moving down there, we can't get the dining room cleared out until the basement is finished.
In minor projects, we painted the ugly vanity in the half bath. Now it's not aggressively offensive anymore, just kind of there. I want to paint that bathroom (since at the moment the colour is a kind of flesh-coloured peach, which, EWWWW. And I think the trim is blue. It's not horrible, but it's not nice.).
Other things to do: replace the ventilation fan in the bathroom. This has been an ongoing project for, oh, 3 months now. Also we have a couple of light fixtures that are nicer than the ones in the baby's room and the spare room, and I just haven't gotten around to swapping them.
And the linen closet is a massive disaster.
And we have to find someone who wants our old sofa and is willing to get it out of here so we can bring in the couch we are taking from my inlaws, which is a much nicer piece of furniture.
Oh god, it's all just TOO MUCH!
I'll put up some pictures later today. Maybe.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Buried in boxes
Unforgiveable, the lack of posting, really.
But there's just so much to do! I really don't understand how all the stuff we had crammed in the apartment has somehow expanded to completely fill a house twice the size. Is there a law of physics that governs moving? Stuff always expands to fill the space available, something like that?
The kitchen is close to being done. One side is finished, the other is about 60% done. I'm hoping to get it complete tomorrow, but there's a fair amount of painting to do.
Here's what the original kitchen looked like:
And here's what the cabinets look like painted with new hardware:
I'm so happy with how it's turning out - nicer than I really could have imagined. The only issue is the lack of space, but I have some ideas for additional storage that may work out...
We're going to replace the crappy closet system in our room with a decent rod and shelf system. The existing one is terrible - you basically have to hang things up one item at a time, and it's very annoying. The room is a total disaster because we haven't had a chance to put up any additional shelving yet either, so there's nowhere to put any of the 8 zillion t-shirts we own (why do we have so many t-shirts??).
The basement is a disaster area, but we did find someone to take the chest freezer away, so hopefully once we have unimpeded access to our crawl space we can stuff all the crap into storage and forget about it. And the spare room needs work too. AUGH.
But there's just so much to do! I really don't understand how all the stuff we had crammed in the apartment has somehow expanded to completely fill a house twice the size. Is there a law of physics that governs moving? Stuff always expands to fill the space available, something like that?
The kitchen is close to being done. One side is finished, the other is about 60% done. I'm hoping to get it complete tomorrow, but there's a fair amount of painting to do.
Here's what the original kitchen looked like:
And here's what the cabinets look like painted with new hardware:
I'm so happy with how it's turning out - nicer than I really could have imagined. The only issue is the lack of space, but I have some ideas for additional storage that may work out...
We're going to replace the crappy closet system in our room with a decent rod and shelf system. The existing one is terrible - you basically have to hang things up one item at a time, and it's very annoying. The room is a total disaster because we haven't had a chance to put up any additional shelving yet either, so there's nowhere to put any of the 8 zillion t-shirts we own (why do we have so many t-shirts??).
The basement is a disaster area, but we did find someone to take the chest freezer away, so hopefully once we have unimpeded access to our crawl space we can stuff all the crap into storage and forget about it. And the spare room needs work too. AUGH.
Monday, July 17, 2006
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