Our first BIG project at the new house was the the two days before we moved in: We had to pull up the carpets and get the original hardwoods underneath in good shape to put our furniture, etc. on them. Well, the carpet in the first room (my office) was a disaster, because all of the carpet padding was stuck to the hardwoods!! It was a sticky foamy mess. We then went to the Master Bedroom, and that carpet and padding came up MUCH easier, so all we had left in that room was to pull up all of the staples in the floor, and polish them up a bit. So the next day we came armed with cleaning products to work on my office floor, but first we decided to work on the Master... and it's a good thing! Pulling up those staples took FOR-EV-ER. We spent hours on our knees and sitting on the filthy hardwoods just trying to pry up staples and then rip them out without damaging the hardwoods. We now feel very emotionally attached to those hardwoods!! It was so many hours of work. And the Master Bedroom took so long, that we didn't get the chance to work on my office, so now that's still a project we have to do... For now, all of my office furniture is in the guest room... and we decided to keep that crazy green carpet in the guest room for now, because we're too afraid to see the carpet padding situation in that room... Plus, that carpet is in good shape (it's just ugly), so it'll be ok for a few months until we have time to work on it.
Here's the gross mess in my office!! It turns out this WILL come up though with a lot of scrubbing with hot soapy water... followed by some hardwood cleaner. It's just going to take a long time.
Here's a broader picture of the room, so you can just see how much sticky stuff we'll have to work on... And this stuff is GROSS - It gets stuck to your pants and shoes like crazy.
As a contrast, here's a picture of what the Master Bedroom looked like right after ripping up the carpet and padding!! Those spots down the middle are just where some staples are. We did have to pry up about 250 staples though...
And I wanted to show you this picture of the Master Bedroom too, because you get a little glimpse of the amazing (sarcasm) wallpaper in the Master Bathroom!! That'll be a project for another time...
Another small project we just did today was replace the porch light! Neither one of us liked the one that was there, and it was in very rough shape... And then during one of our MANY trips to Home Depot we decided to stroll by the lighting area and we both fell in love with the same porch light!! There was a HUGE wall of porch lights, and I saw the one I liked right away but I didn't want to sway McGee's choice so I just said, "Do you see any you like?" and he liked the one that I liked! It was meant to be. So McGee installed that today, and it's looking beautiful!! OH and speaking of Home Depot, we've been there a million times!! And we've discovered that Lowe's seems to be a bit more pricey than Home Depot.. We've found much better deals at the Home Depot. Has anyone else thought that?
Here's the original! And the gold paint was chipping off too.
Here's McGee in action!
Here's the front view!
Here's the side view!
Here it is with the light off... I like it so much better than the old one!
And we also set up our gnomes :-) It's officially home! You notice that my Chargers one is the best one? Yeah... That's right ;-)
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