Moving - FINALLY
Sunday is officially moving day. We still have MUCH to do before that - including painting all the trim in the upstairs hallway, painting a second (and possibly third) coat in one of the upstairs rooms, finishing the stairs (have to still decide to exactly we're doing there), tearing up the second half the kitchen floor (did I mention that we decided to tear up the kitchen floor?), buy a refrigerator, and last but not least, actually PACK. This wouldn't be such a huge task before Sunday, if not for the fact that I am working from 8:30 am to 11:30 pm tomorrow. woohoo!Anyway, here are some photos for your enjoyment:
Kitchen floor on the floor:
What idiots do to stairs:
posted by Schna @ 8:00 AM
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Not that it matters, but Nick & Alexis are moving this weekend, too.
Oh geez, best of luck with that! I hope everything went well. I finished what I thought was the last of the painting not related to The Giant Hole in the BAsement Wall but no, I pulled a fugly paper towel holder off the wall and find a) it had never been painted behind and b) the paint applied around it seeped in underneath and glued the thing to the wall! >:( So I can either put it back up or find the paint from the 12 cans of offwhite downstair. No. Fun.
Hopefully, though, we can swap housewarming parties in the near future!
How did the move go? It looks like someone dragged an engine up the stairs that was leaking oil. Or an alien body with black blood.
The move went pretty well. I too now have paint touch-ups, related to pulling things off the wall AND hitting the wall. Discovered that squeezing couches and other assorted large things through relatively newly painted door frames results in loss of new paint.
We still have some stuff in the old place that we have to move out by tonight. that will be fun. We are about 30% unpacked. We're trying to sell a dining room set that the seller's left. Once that is out of the way, we'll be able to unpack everything downstairs. Upstairs is mostly clothes.
The dark is actually the original wood finish underneath all the crap. It made us very sad that we couldn't get back down to the wood, but it was such a mess. We ended up painting the stairs a really dark brown. Of course, we couldn't leave them for 72 hours, so they're a little messed up now, but next time we leave town, we'll probably through on a coat of paint right before we leave. That will probably be several months away.
Scott - where did N & A move too?
o-g: definitely let us know when your party will be and we'll try to make the trip out to DC!
T - hope you had a great birthday yesterday!
Enough paint stripping chemical and some sanding and you could get those stairs back to wood. But you don't have any sanding experience, so you probably couldn't handle it. HAHAHAHAhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
You can rent power sanding tools and really make a mess. :D
no - NO experience at all!! :) I think jon's hands are STILL buzzing!
we did rent power sanders for the downstairs floors - they weren't working too well on the stairs.
we got extra strength stripper that WAS working, but w would have needed about a week JUST for the stairs. In two hours, the two of us completed 1.5 landings - sort of. It was leaving almost as much of a mess as it was taking up. The wood wasn't in the greatest shape either, so we voted to just paint for now. Eventually, we might replace the stairs (not the risers) and then have it be wood.
The banister and trim are all painted too, which kills me because it's BEAUTIFUL wood underneath! oh well - don't have the time or energy to strip ALL of that it and refinish it. makes me sad though.
Glen Ellyn, I think. Kirk said it's about two minutes from 55. And Baby Two is due June 11! They're crazy, but when a lease expires, they don't give you a fetus extension. And frankly, I'd rather move prepartum than post.
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