But, after that fun, we just worked on our house all weekend!! On Saturday afternoon, McGee finished sanding the floors in the room that will soon be my office (right now we usually just call it the 3rd room). We started this project back in March after we first moved in, but it's been SUCH a pain. This last part that has taken the longest is sanding around the edges of the floors, which also included sanding underneath the baseboard heating along the sides of the walls. It was a lot of work, and very discouraging, so there was definitely a month or so where they didn't even get touched. But, we really want to have that room finished before our houseguests arrive next month, so that we can get some of the furniture out of the guest room! So, McGee finished sanding, which took most of Saturday AND part of Sunday morning. While McGee was working on that on Saturday, I did general housework (vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms, cleaning the kitchen, etc). Here are a few pictures from when McGee was using the big sander back in March:
Here was McGee with the big sander, and you can see how it can't get that border around the edge of the wall. So all that had to be done with a hand sander.
This was before McGee did touch-ups and sanding around the walls (you can see by the far wall that it still needs sanding).
On Sunday afternoon, we started staining the floors in the 3rd room! We found a stain that fairly closely matched the original stain color (it's called Gunstock by MinWax), and got to work. We both put on some knee pads, and I was the person who applied the stain and rubbed it in with a rag, and McGee followed right behind me and rubbed the floor with a clean rag to rub the excess stain off and smooth out the color. Before we'd even gone a few yards, we were SO happy with the results. It was hard work (my arms and knees were killing me), but it was really cool to see the amazing progress as we were going. Every time we walk by that room now we both feel ecstatic and proud of how amazing the floors look after the countless hours we've spent working SO hard on them. We still have 2 coats of poly to apply (we're going to start that tomorrow night I think), and then about a week later we can bring in some furniture.
They are so smooth and beautiful! We've worked so hard for them.
Then Sunday evening, we decided that we hadn't quite done enough work that weekend (haha) so we decided to paint the bathroom we've been working on. McGee has already done a ton of work in the bathroom over the past few weeks, including ripping apart a wall to change the wiring for lighting from 2 sconces down low on the wall to a normal vanity light above the medicine cabinet. Then he had to put up drywall and re-build part of the wall because the original medicine cabinet was enormous and ugly, and the one we wanted was a different shape. So, drywall and many coats of spackle over the past few weeks, followed by some primer (I did that!), and we were ready to paint on Sunday evening. Our bathtub and toilet were both in good shape, so we decided to save some money and keep those. They're kind of an almond-ish color, so we picked a paint color that we thought played well with that color. It's like a light blue-ish green color (I don't know how well you can see it with the worklight that's currently in there! We haven't installed the vanity light yet). Oh, and I forgot to take a "before" picture of the bathroom, but here's the photo from the house listing before we bought the house:
Here was the "before" picture from the house listing. You can kinda sorta see one of the sconces on the left side of the picture. And we hated that sink (it was falling apart and very cheaply-made).
Here's the huge hole for the old medicine cabinet, and the holes in the wall from working on the electrical wiring.
Here you can see the worklight, and the hole for the new medicine cabinet. That's the wall that McGee had to rebuild! He did such a great job with the drywall and spackle - It looks so smooth!
You can kinda see the color... It's a soft blue-ish green.
Here's another attempt to show you the color... It's hard to get a good picture with the lighting in there!
And here you can see the absence of a sink (we bought one - we just have to install the new baseboard heating covers and then install the sink).
We didn't stop working until after 9pm on Sunday night, and that's when we ate dinner. We made a frozen pizza, because neither of us had the energy to do anything else. With all of the work we've been doing on the house, we have eaten a LOT of pizza (mostly frozen, but some Domino's) over the past 4 or 5 days... We're both pretty sick of it at the moment.
The bathroom is definitely still a work-in-progress, but I think I should have some very cool progress to show you over the next few weeks!
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