Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The unveiling of the nearly complete upstairs bedroom!

Ok, so this time it's been a REEEALLY long time since I posted so I'm just going to jump right in....when we last spoke, we had just finished insulating and just started sheet rocking...



Ta daaaa......Completed sheet rock. As you can see it has already been mudded. Which means....



...Time for sanding...which is apparently a very dirty job. I think he gets dirtier than necessary to show how hard he's working. You know, like a woman throwing flour on herself while cooking. Anyway...



Here we have just primed the walls. He says it's easier to see bumps in the sheet rock/mud if it's all the same color.



Sanding the floors! This was really exciting to finally get to test our theory that these floors COULD BE restored. Until now, they were completely covered in stain, paint, dirt & dust...



See the difference? It's amazing what sanding can do....Now it's time to paint the walls. I picked a pretty, calm blue.



See, I'm doing work. Painting and staining are my specialties. Giles' specialties are....everything else :)


And now....the moment we've all been waiting for...the unveiling of the nearly complete upstairs bedroom....drum roll please....



We've moved into this room (from across the hall in the incomplete master bedroom where we were staying). It's nice to finally be able to walk around without flip-flops! We love this room. We also installed dimmer switches for the lighting so it feels very cozy. All that is lacking is finishing the trim around the walkway between the bedroom area and the office area and the trim around the windows in the office area.
We have a joke between us...we finish out every sentence concerning our house with "someday." Our someday is getting closer everyday...