Grant's bedroom

Grant's room is almost ready to move furniture in. The walls are painted, the fourth wall is being prepped for the painting experiment. His mattress is already in there, I've just been waiting for his bed frame to be moved over so I can clean it and get that all set up. Hopefully I'll have his wall done tonight!

Master bedroom

Started on the master bedroom yesterday! The wall on the left has two coats, the one on the right just has one.

 

The ah-mazing tools we found at Lowe's, it makes painting the trim and corners so much easier! Unless you accidentally break it. Which I'm not saying I did...but, I'm not denying it either.

 

The ceiling and trim painter and the corner painter.

 

 

Still cleaning.

Dad helped out again tonight! We wouldn't be nearly as far as we are without all his help. Pretty sure he's earned a lifetime supply of cigars.

Tonight we painted the baseboards, painted the computer room, pulled up the carpet padding, pulled up the staples, and then swept like nobody's business.

Grant's room, ready for carpet!

PC room:

Eric took down the awesome shelving so we can take down the wallpaper.

Water damage that we'll have to fix:

All that and I still haven't mopped the living room or vacuumed the family room. Tomorrow! Or maybe Saturday. 

Where's Mr. Clean when you need him?

When we were just looking at the house I was so excited. I completely overlooked how dirty it had gotten while it was empty. Here's what most of the walls looked like close up. It took a good 1 1/2- 2 hours (for 2 rooms) to clean them before we could even paint! Good thing Dad came down to help today, I'm not sure how far I would've gotten without him!

Progress! Carpet has been taken out, walls are clean...ready to paint!

Here's after the first coat. I intentionally left this wall (mostly) blank. I'm going to try a fun herringbone pattern on it. I tried o explain it to Dad and Eric and they both just looked a little wild-eyed. No trust.

If you're happy and you know it, do the...

It's official, we're home owners! If you think I broke out in dance once I walked in after closing... heck yes!

Time to get my gloves on and clean.

Ice Ice Baby

It's official, we have a fridge! It's nice and shiny and might just be the newest thing introduced to this house since the 70's.