Leaving the house tonight, it looked like we got so much less accomplished today than yesterday. Even though it doesn't look like much, we did get quite a bit done today. Mike started at the house this morning while I went into work at the mall, which was a bit of a bummer. He ran to Lowes and used our Christmas gift cards to buy the Kiltz primer and paint for the living room and trim, along with some other things. Mike's mom, her boyfriend and his brother all showed up to help as well. They got the garage swept out, the trim in the living room sanded and mostly primed and the holes filled in the walls, all while I was at work.
When I finally showed up, the Time Warner guy was at the house installing our internet service. We waited for him to leave and then Mike and I had to run to Lowes again to buy ceiling paint for the living room. All of the ceilings in the house are in great condition but there was one small strip that hadn't been painted in many years due to being covered by the fireplace we ripped out. This was a bummer, but we want to do things right the first time around. We picked up the ceiling paint and I found a gallon of mistint on sale for $5 and it was an alright color so we bought that too. We'll find a use for it. I'm totally turning into my dad. :)
While we were at Lowes we decided to pull the trigger on ordering the carpet for the living room and the runner up the stairs. We ordered Stainmaster carpet with the matching pad in a color called Civic. It's a bit hard to explain but its an off white with flecks of brown, green and black in it. We just have to wait for the installer to come measure and order the carpet. We should have it installed in the next two weeks. We're pretty excited about the new carpet. Mike's favorite part of buying the carpet was that they did a stain test at Lowes with Kool-aid. I missed this part, but according to Mike they sprayed our Stainmaster carpet and a non Stainmaster carpet and the Kool-aid just beaded up on the carpet we ordered. Pretty awesome.
Upon our return to the house with the ceiling paint, Mike started on trimming and rolling the ceiling while I painted the first coat of paint on the trim. The trim color is called Horseradish and is just your basic off white trim color. We're painting all of the natural woodwork in the house, mainly because it is in awful condition and secondly because I hate the orangy color of it. Once that was done, I moved onto sanding the trim going up the stairs, priming and getting the first coat of paint on. This was a bit of a discussion between Mike and I of what parts to paint and what parts to leave natural. Our final decision looks great.
Mike's mom left at some point during all of this and came back with chicken and broccoli casserole and still warm from the oven brownies for dinner. While we were pigging out, Laurie primed the area that was behind the fireplace. So far the living room looks awesome. Mike and Brian worked in the basement cleaning and tearing down some nasty shelving. I painted some more trim and Laurie cleaned the fridge, which was full of cat hair. I know I mentioned it yesterday, but the previous owner was NASTY! Who lets your freezer get full of cat hair? Gross. Brian came up to help Laurie, but mostly to pick on his mother, I stayed out of it. Laurie and Brian left and Mike and I stayed just long enough to get some more junk cleared out of the basement and I removed the filthy accordion door off the pantry.
It sounds like a lot of work and it was a lot of work to get done in one day, its just too bad it doesn't look like we got more done. The good news for impatient me is that Laurie and I should be able to roll the living room first thing tomorrow while Mike and his friends empty our storage unit. We have to be out by Tuesday or we'll have to pay another month, so we're just going to move everything to the garage. We did a pretty good job of labeling the boxes, so hopefully I'll be able to find my transfer cable tomorrow to upload pictures.
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