Wood Floor Refinishing

5/31/07


Our house smells awesome because of the sanding. A little less awesome is having to move all the stuff out of the rooms. Ugh.
Eitherway, it is going to look GREAT!


Here's a picture from this past weekend at the Biltmore Estate. Pretty cool place.

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Flowers & Fertilizer

5/29/07

So this weekend we took "off" from the house. Too bad the house didn't take the weekend off too. We had a sewer backup in the front of the house on the curb that was spilling "grey" stuff onto the street. Ew. The flies liked it, but our noses did not.

One good thing is that it didn't backup into our basement until Monday morning and that was all shower water that didn't smell. We called the city, but of course, it had corrected itself by then. (But blowing more grey chunks on the street. Double Ew.)

Anyway, the guy came out, cleaned it up and we have to wait for the basement to dry out. Bad thing is, the cleaner he used is the same as is used in port-a-potties, so now the front of our house smells like the bathroom area at the end of an outdoor music festival. Sweet icky 'cherry'.
On a lighter note, and because I didn't take any photos of the "grey" chunks. Adam and I went crazy at the farmers market and gave the front of the house some curb appeal. It's very nice!




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Wash 'n GO!

5/24/07

Living Room with her junk..............................empty

Painted (need to do FP white!)

What? not everyone has a washer and dryer in their living room? It is sooo convenient! although they do look a little out of place now that the HIDEOUS peach sponge paint walls are gone. The walls are now a more modern grey, but we still need to rent the spray painter to paint the fireplace white. (It's red PAINTED red brick. Ummm yeah.)


With her scary junk...........................empty

Painted!

I wish I had a better picture of how ugly the peach sponge paint was, but believe me. It was BAD!

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Bye-Bye Blue Swirls

5/22/07



The porch is still pretty slow, but we aren't in a rush, right?
We do need to get some painting done before the guys come to refinish the floors on next Monday. So we are full-speed ahead in painting.
We did one coat of the light green in the upstairs hallway last night. And I finished the trim and purple wall in the sewing room (aka Adam's Bedroom).


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not totally Grey Gardens

5/17/07

Well, the house itself is very "Grey Gardens", the actual garden is quite green!





(an iris and some funky plant behind)........................(Mint and Fennel)

I know I've talked a lot of crap about the crazy previous owner (see post), but to her benefit, at one time years ago, she had a really nice garden.

(Rosemary)...........................................(lamb's ear)

Good thing for me is, when we get around the landscaping, I won't have to buy any plants because I have some nice ones. They are just overgrown and all over the place!

(the 'Cousin It' plant)...........................(Honeysuckle)

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minor porch update


It seems like all the porch photos look the same, but I promise, we are making progress. Just this lunch hour, we put up the first column, took down the temporary pipe column and the roof didn't collapse!

That's what I call progress: Stuff not falling down!

Also, Marc put in the big center joist earlier this week.

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Eddie Van Halen Room



before .............................................. after

My hands healed a little, so I went crazy with the paint brush again. This time maybe even more crazy. Plus, it was raining, so we couldn't work on the porch, so I had no other option!
Marc calls this my Eddie Van Halen Guitar room. I guess without even knowing, he must have inspired my design...


Here is another "before" picture to help illustrate how bad the room was before.
From our first night in the house:

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The Room that Crippled Me:

5/16/07

Seriously. I can't grasp anything with my hands. Ugh. I had to take a night off from painting and just go to bed. Good thing the hockey game was a blow-out. Go Wings! Ducks Suck!


I know it is a crazy color, but it is to match this wild couch!

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Dead Cat Count: 2

5/14/07


Ugh! It is a regular pet cemetery under the back porch. We spotted this poor guy under some rubble that we have been working on for weeks. Marc named him Boo Boo Kitty. RIP.

This pic is a little morbid.

On a lighter note, Asheville has the world's most beautiful dump. Honestly, check it out:

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We have a bedroom!


Finally! Room #2 is done! I'll miss the graffiti above my head while I sleep, but it feels great to sleep in a DONE room! We still need to think of what we want to put over our bed, but it is a BIG improvement! ( I need to find a before pic!)

Many more photos to come later today (marc has to send them to me), but we had a very eventful weekend!

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refreshments available in the green room

5/11/07

and MAN! It's green!


I'm going to clean the floors and load the furniture tonight.

I think these photos demonstration how horrible of photographer I am. Plus, there is dust on the lens. Nice.

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Hearts of Palm

5/10/07

While I'd rather be at the REAL BEACH looking at real palm tree, I have actually spent the last couple of days looking at green 'hearts of palm' paint.

The paint is Sherwin Williams (Trim and ceiling are a white called "snowbound")


In addition, the porch that won't die is almost dead!

We demo'd the side wall. Looks great.
Now we are almost ready to start with construction! It is starting to feel like this back porch is never going to be done!





Like our support stud wall? Looks scary, but it is holding the roof up.

The pile of garbage and rotten wood just keeps growing and growing.... time to go to the dump!

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My Concussion & Bathroom Update

5/8/07


So we constructed the stud wall last night so that we can demo the rotten lintel, and I think I got a concussion when 2 2 x 4 x 8' pieces of wood fell on my head.

Ouch.

Anyway, here are the results.

Now we can knock out all that other stuff. I can't wait to demo more of the porch!

Also, here are some updated photos of the bathroom. I installed the frosted film on the window for privacy. Looks pretty dang good if I must say so myself!


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