Gross Projects, and an Easy Project!

This past weekend was very project-filled! We worked for many hours on the gross floors in our 3rd bedroom (the one that will eventually be my office), and I'm sad to say that we're still far from done. I don't know what we're going to do with those floors... At one point, we started thinking that we're going to have to just admit defeat and re-carpet them. We still might end up going that way, but we're not admitting defeat quite yet... We're going to work on them again this coming weekend. The adhesive and foam on them is SO sticky. We have to wear disposable booties on our shoes, and we have to wear knee pads too, and they're both just completely coated in green adhesive nastyness. We fully hand-scrubbed the floors with hot soapy water, we attempted some hardwood floor cleaner too (no progress with that...), and we also pulled out all of the staples (which was actually the "easy" part...), and here's what the floors look like now:

Yeah... they're still terrible! Everything you see there is adhesive. It's so sticky. 

Another gross project from this weekend was a very thorough and deep cleaning of the freezer that came with this house. McGee and I have both attempted to clean that freezer a few times since we moved in, and it was GROSS... Like, there were big dead bugs in there, and there was tons of super sticky stuff everywhere that we couldn't scrub off. So, it was time for me to call my mom. And she gave me some great tips for cleaning a freezer! And I'm happy to say that the freezer is now SPOTLESS, and no longer gross at all! It's now somewhere I feel comfortable storing food.

And an EASY project was that we put together a patio table!!  Even though we have a ton of stuff we need to buy for the inside of our house, we decided we really wanted to buy a patio table so that once it warms up (soon?? please??) we can enjoy our screened-in back patio.  And we found an all-weather table that was on a super good sale, so we bought it and put it together over the weekend! It seems great quality and is super heavy, so even crazy winds won't be able to budge it! We also bought some matching chairs, but they haven't arrived yet.

It's kind of hard to see it because of the reflection in the glass top... And yes, that is like a green astro-turf-ish carpet. The previous homeowners REALLY loved green if you can't tell!

Oh and we also had our final walk-through at our rental house, so I think we're done there! Fingers crossed that we get our full deposit back!!