Progress!!

I am so sore. This weekend we painted the living room and the dining room and all the trim in both those rooms. The majority of the painting required primer in addition to paint, and also very very careful taping and drop cloth-ification because the floors have been refinished. We also set up the living room with our smaller couch and 2 recliners, and set up the dining room to be our tv room until the contractors are gone and we can paint our back room and get new floor in there. (It is currently wood paneled and carpeted in disgusting brown dirty carpet.) As if that wasn't enough, we also got a tree, decorated it, hung stockings, and hung some lights around the bay window and the fireplace. The upstairs is being sanded today and then stained tomorrow, and the baseboard in the wood stove room is being put in today. Now that our couches are out of the wood stove room and the baseboard is in, we can paint that as soon as we have time. We are also supposed to be getting new gutters this week, and putting up Christmas lights. Oh....and did I mention this week is finals?

Floors!

Last week our downstairs wood floors got refinished. This week the stairs got refinished, and next week they're doing the hallways and landings upstairs. The floors in the house were pretty beat up, and there were sections where the floorboards were missing and they had patched it with different wood. Everything matches now and its uniform in color and shiny. Love it! Most of all, I love that it will actually make a difference if I clean the floors now. Before they were refinished, they didn't really have a clear coat on top, so if you tried to use floor cleaner it would just soak in. This weekend we are painting the living room and dining room and the part of the kitchen where the wood stove used to be. (You may say, "wait...I thought you already painted the living room?" Then I would say "we did, and then the next week the contractors decided to fill the walls with insulation from the inside instead of the outside, which resulted in about eight holes in the walls of the living room, and the paint we used in there was specially tinted, and we don't have more, so we have to repaint the whole room. Hooray!")

First, the after pictures...because I like those better:









The before pictures:

An area where the floorboards didn't match-


Some more floorboards that didn't match-



This is the wall that was torn our between the dining room and kitchen, the floor had to be patched where the fireplace used to be-



All the baseboards are being fixed too, but they aren't done yet in these pictures.