Paint & Flooring Updates

I think that I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Oh wait I probably mean I am starting to see a light at the end of the first quarter of the tunnel.

Painting-

All the rooms on the main floor have been painted, with the exception of the office. Granted I still need to paint and put trim in the back half of the house but for the most part the rooms are starting to look "clean" and ready to go. As I mentioned before I have painted the main front room a green color that I think looks great with the rich color of the woodwork (as a friend mentioned it looks like guacamole green). The dining room I have painted a brown color (ICI's Basketry to be exact). This has worked well to hide alot of the imperfections with the walls and their texturing. The kitchen is the yellow I showed before and the adjacent bathroom is a tan color. For the back bedroom I am going with Cream & Crimson (Go IU Hoosiers) since this room will probably end up being a den/rec room, but first it will be my bedroom while I work upstairs.

Flooring-

I have put luon on top of the flooring boards in the bedroom and kitchen in preparation for the final flooring. The bedroom will be carpeted whereas the kitchen will be ceramic tiled after I get my cabinets put in. Just having the new wood sheets in makes the rooms look so much better. My big thing is everything just looks cleaner! I guess all the dust and debris has been getting to me and I am excited to see it start to disappear.
Oh yeah, the carpets have been ripped up and the hardwood flooring is ready to be sanded and refinished. My father is going to be free tomorrow so he is going to try and tackle that. We will see how everything turns out.

Here are some before and after pictures so you can see how much a coat of paint does.


Front Rooms

Kitchen






Back Bedroom

Back from Vacation and Back to Work

I got back from my trip to Isle Royale National Park last Friday to find that my mother and sister had payed my house a visit and put a final coat of paint on my front room and had primed the back bedroom. What a wonderful suprise!!! I was so overjoyed that I finally decided to rip up the rest of the carpet downstairs and discover what the hardwood underneath looked like. I would have to say that it didn't look too bad but will definately have to be sanded down and restained and finished which I was obviously expecting. There was a good deal of condensation and moisture that was trapped in by the carpet and the flooring so there were some signs of that. There is one major spot where two boards have bowed up due to water damage so I will need to figure out how to pound them back into their rightful place and set them there. I will be spending the next few days sitting on the floor individually pulling out each of the thousands of staples that were used to tack down the old padding under the carpet. Although this work is going to be mindnumbing it sure beats sanding drywall.

One thing that I have noticed is that with the carpet now gone those rooms look so much larger and I also notice that I am hearing the sounds of my house differently now... the creaks and echos. Each time I turn on my alarm on when I leave the beeps that the system make just resonate throughout and I am briefly thrown off by it. When I get furnature in these sounds will be absorded a bit more but for the time being I am enjoying them. It the little things in life.

I also broke down and finally went out and bought a dehumidifier since my cellar is always extremely musty and probably isn't helping with the moisture issue at all. Go figure Indiana has moisture in the air during the summer! I hope to get some pictures soon to show everyone how cool my floors look. Why would anyone ever cover up hardwood floors with carpet???