I know the updates have been a long time coming, but August has been a busy month, so bear with me while I get you up to speed.
Thursday 8/2/12 - Friday 8/3/12
Our first 24 hours as home-owners
We
closed on the house with the modest intentions of ripping out the
existing floors to uncover the original pine floors, refinish/paint them
(depending on their condition), and then eventually gutting each room
one by one, over time. Well, those plans have, let's say... evolved. But
I'll get to that.
Let's start upstairs, shall we?
Remember that
nasty 1970's carpet? Thankfully,
no one attached it properly when it was installed, so after detaching
the few nails & staples around the perimeters, it just rolled
right up. Mom and I had it all ripped
out by dinner time on closing day! Now we have bare pine floors, ready for sanding and painting!
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| Smaller bedroom |
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| Landing at top of stairs |
Back downstairs, we wasted no time tearing out the
linoleum and rolling up the existing carpet (we'll be reusing the
downstairs carpet in the bedrooms until we can install some source of
heat upstairs). One layer closer to those wood floors!
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| Earning my dinner |
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| We all knew that trash compactor wasn't staying, didn't we? |
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| Our first peek at the hardwood floors!! |
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| Starting to uncover them, but still a looooong way to go... |
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| Home ownership isn't official until you get your first pizza delivered, right? |
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