OK, here are some pre pictures. I don't know what happened to my Christmas pics last year. They all turned out dark. Notice the dark paneling in the background. The guy is my younger brother. The other is a during make-over pic.

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Tomorrow they sand!!!!! then they paint and then it's ready to bring the carpet and furniture in.! Yeah!!!!!!

Painting starts tomorrow!!!!!!! Even though I could find a million things wrong with $%^&&%%$#, he did clean up EVERY day. But these sanders today, it was a mess when they left. I asked them if they were going to sweep and they said that the room needed to settle for a couple of hours and the walls would need to be swept before they were painted. so, no they did'nt clean up. It was up to the painters to do that. So that meant I couldn't go downstairs at all! I really needed to do some laundry and couldn't. The poor cat, She is mainly black but not today. And since a cat grooms themselves as often as they do, I worry that she is getting it in her system.

One thing I did learn today from these guys was that I needed to completely turn off my furnace/air or the dust would go through the whole house through the air intake ducts. I guess that's why when the Mr. $%%^&^%%$ was sanding the whole house was a mess.

But we get paint tomorrow!!!! It will even look better with just the primer on.

Yay, Doyd! A beacon in the storm!


That spackle dust is truly nasty and I'm glad they had the sense to let it settle before it became a blizzard. It is a pain but you'll be better off for it.

Soooo? What color????

Ooooooohhhhh, Doydie! 2 more posts and you'll be an official "Senior Member."


Hmmm, I actually think I've had more Senior Moments since I've been a Senior Member...

Here's the paint color. They put the ceiling paint on first, then the upper wall. When we saw the upper wall we were a little upset. We didn't realize it would be that dark. But when the lower wall color went on the upper wall color looked better. I have two pics. One just shows the colors. The other shows the 'box', The light colored wall in the back is just because they haven't got paint on it yet. We will put chair-rail in between the two colors on the wall.

When we had the house built 31 years ago we left a main supporting wall downstairs open so they had to put a metal beam up. So for years the only function it had was for me to hang my laundry on it. Well it was pretty good for pull-ups to. So this metal beam is now boxed in and looks a lot better. It looks like a real ceiling now.

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Looking good! What color carpet then, almond/honey? You're going to love it soon, soon, soooooooonnnnnn!

starting to look good D finally, :looks around::::::: I still say the giant pit with lye was too good for#$%&^%**((*)()_&^*^%^@$#%@

All the painting got finished today and we paid the contractor. then I called the carpet place to let them know we were ready. She said that they will place the order next Monday and it takes 2 weeks for it to come in!!!!!!!! I want it now! So I guess this weekend we go carpet shopping again. But my husband is right in that the combined cost of the contractor and carpet would kind of deplete our savings. If we waited the two weeks we would hhave his paychaeck and my monthly SSD check. Don't you hate it when husbands are right? I just want to make sure everything is done by Thanksgiving. That doesn't give me much time to decorate.

construction dust
When we remodeled our kitchen {06} & bedroom {05} {DIY'ers} we constantly vac'd with our shop vac - it was so much easier to keep a handle on the dust with it- best gift we ever got from the family Christmas exchange