Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Paint till you drop...

Well, we are moving in a week from tomorrow, and we have been working like mad. Steve has finished scrubbing the final frontier - the front bedroom that until a few hours ago housed the tools. We hit a milestone by finishing all the carpentry repairs in the front bedroom and dining room- the trim was so hacked up where the partition had been and some was missing for some unknown reason - although a crummy plaster patch job on the ceiling suggests water damage. The tools have now been relocated to their permanent home in the basement. Steve has worked wonders on the filth - the rooms actually resemble someones home. He has also been patching the 500,000 holes in the trim, walls and ceilings throughout the house in preparation for the painting. I have been painting like crazy, and have the first coat on the walls in the back bedroom, hallway and entry room, and both the walls and ceiling in the living room. Tonight I put on two coats of paint on the kitchen walls in preparation for the new stove an refrigerator we are having delivered on Saturday! My original plan was to find some used ones, but I have not had any time to go search ones out, hope they work and then figure out how to get them home. I did some shopping around and found some very nice ones by Frigidaire - That's what we have in our Long Beach house and have been very happy with them. I got the lower mid ranged ones, the stove has cast iron burner covers instead of steel, but other than it is pretty basic. The fridge has glass shelves instead of wire, a full shelf in the freezer, and an ice maker. I don't have the water hookup yet, but I was planning to add it later anyway, and buying it up front was cheaper then ordering it later, and I got the glass shelves, which are much easier to clean. The best part is that they will deliver an install it for free, and switch the door swing on the fridge. With all of the other stuff we are trying to get done, its a help.
We also had a carpet installer out today to measure for the carpet. He was referred to us by our realtor and so far I have been impressed - the showed up when he said, and was quick and extremely polite. We need 108 yards of carpet for both bedrooms, the living room, dining room and hallway. The Entry hardwood floor is still decent so that will remain exposed. He will be installing the carpet next Tuesday, so we have to go pick it out tomorrow, and he will take care of all the rest - again, one less thing to deal with!So now, I have to get the dining room walls and ceiling painted, the front bedroom walls, the ceilings in the kitchen, entry, hallway and both bedrooms, plus all of the woodwork, including the beamed ceilings before next Tuesday. I have been taking afternoons off of work so that way I can stay caught up at the office while getting everything done.
We have also staring moving the kitchen items over - since the cabinets are cleaned, we have been taking over 2-4 boxes every time we go over full of stuff, and getting it put away. It will help a lot next week.
Hopefully I will have some new pictures to post in the next few days - the pale yellow we choose looks really nice and I can't wait to get the trim painted to give the full effect.

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