TUESDAY 8/23, the sheetrock was mostly finished except for a little bit of sanding and clean up so here are pictures of the texture on all of the walls and finished (mostly) sheetrock! We also had the sheetrock dude texture the ceilings in all of the rooms :) just in case you are wondering why there are pictures of ceilings...
Front two rooms:
Kitchen and office ceilings :)
Stairway from the top down and the bottom up :)
A really terrible picture of the 2nd bedroom upstairs.. and it's textured ceiling :)
Upstairs bathroom:
Upstairs front bedroom:
WEDNESDAY 8/24: While the sheetrock guy was finishing up on Wednesday we used (an actually good sander) and got all of the floors sanded and covered with paper. Once we finished on Wednesday afternoon we started painting...since the carpet was coming on Thursday we thought it would be good to get those areas painted... and after painting from about 3 PM until 1 AM... we were far from finished.. but we got a good start at least. All of the ceilings in the carpeted rooms were primed and painted and the walls in the front bedroom, hallway, and stairway were painted. (looking at it now...we will definitely be doing a lot of touch up work haha)
SANDING:
The poor floors had been re-finished incorrectly one too many times..so there was no way to sand them down to nice clean wood, so we decided to embrace the distressed look :) I mean come on..it's almost 100 years old..
Todd sanding the frog room :)
The front rooms:
Close ups of the floors :)
AND PAINTING :)
The color we painted on the walls in the upstairs bedroom, hallway, and stairway is called Dapper Tan :) and the ceilings are white :)
Upstairs bedroom:
Hallway and Stairway and Office Ceiling :)
Then on THURSDAY 8/25, the carpet was installed! It made the house smell new and feel a lot more comfortable! This is when the house finally started looking more like it was going to be our home :)
Office & Stairway
Hallway, 2nd bedroom, and front bedroom (upstairs)
FRIDAY 8/26, we started painting the frog room as well as the front two rooms, we had some friends come help so it seemed to go by much faster than the previous painting experience with just the two of us :)
The frog room we painted Soft Sage (a nice green)
The front two rooms we painted Quiet Rain (a nice blue)
SATURDAY 8/27, Todd's dad installed some lights as we finished up painting, we had to do a second coat in the rooms and we painted the trim in the frog room (I didn't take pictures of that...) and then we cleaned stained the floors with a light cherry wood stain, it turned out great and really blended all the distressed and not as distressed areas together.
Lights: (he put up more than these but for some reason these are the ones I have pictures of..)
Stained floors:
Saturday 8/27 - Sunday 8/28
After we finished staining the floors...at around 11 pm I believe we waited for an hour so that it could dry ...and then went back and put the first layer of polyurethane on the floors, waited an hour..went and put another coat of polyurethane (and found that someone had stolen a ladder off our front porch...that was not fun I mean honestly it was 2AM) then after that layer we decided we really couldn't stay up and get all of the layers on so we woke up Sunday morning and did another and then Todd skipped out on part of church and did the last layer. And 4 layers of polyurethane later...... we have....
A beautiful frog room:
& beautiful front rooms :)
Oh my gosh, it is really starting to come together! I can't believe how fast you guys are doing everything, I absolutely love it! Did you have a while to plan everything out so you could do it all so fast?? I can't imagine choosing all the different paint colors and everything so fast. I like to hmm and haw over my paint these days, I feel like it is so permanent, even though I know it isn't, I also know it will be a long time before I do a room again. I haven't even finished my main level!
ReplyDeleteI know it's finally starting to look a little more like a house! ...And I wish we had planned it all out but all we really had planned were the things that we had other people do and got bids for (sheet rock, water heater-furnace-a/c, carpet, and windows. Everything else we've been working on as we go...so a lot of long nights. The paint was kind of funny because we bought a few testers of ones we thought we would like...and they looked terrible on the walls but we didn't want to spend any more money on testers so we picked colors with just the free paper samples ...so we've been lucky so far! The only color I haven't seen on the walls yet is the kitchen so hopefully we are lucky with it as well :) It's been moving fast since we have sort of a deadline since we got a renovation mortgage so the work that we had put onto it had to be done by Sept. 15 (so just the stuff we had bids for) but a lot of the things rested on us getting things done on our end. We still have lots we plan on doing though, but at least now we can live here while we do it :)
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