Job # 3 Getting all the carpet up

In a way to save money, we told our Carpet supplier that we would pull up our own carpet before they installed the fresh new clean smelling carpet. Mike did most of this work. We had ordered a No. 8 carpet pad and after taking off the old carpet, noticed that the pad underneath seemed to be in really good condition and a No. 8 pad. So in an effort to save even more money, we decided to keep the pad and just install the new carpet on top.

Here's the bonus room's cement floor. We had to put some KILZ on several "Dog" spots.We got a cool surprise when the carpet was installed. The existing pad ended up being a No. 10, better than what we were going to put in. We still had to replace the pad downstairs though, so that had a No 8, but we were pretty excited about that.

Then after all the carpet was laid, Mike started replacing the brown 1 1/2 inch baseboard with this white 3+ inch baseboard.

Next come the hardwoods....

Job #2 Paint, Paint and More Paint

We are painting the whole house and since we retextured the ceilings, means we're painting them too. That's a lot of paint. There was a sale at Home Depot a few weeks ago, so we bought 28 gallons of paint and primer and hopefully it will cover all the walls and ceilings...We thought we were going to have the painting all done before the carpets went in...hahahahahaha!

White Ceilings and Eggshell colored Walls

Taking a break....

Love the paint in the hair and on the face...

I didn't realize how time consuming and tiring painting is...I'm tired of painting and we still have the downstairs to do....did I say I'm tired of painting???

Anyways, while many times we worked late into the night with Decker there, we had to figure out a way to keep him off of wet walls, fingers out of paint, and put him to bed when he got tired.

We made a little bed for him in the hall closet with some extra blankets. He didn't seem to mind-- and was tired enough that he would lay down and go to sleep.

When he was awake and wanting to run around, we would put him in his saucer with lots of treats to keep him occupied. (Decker's room)

(Living room)(Master Bedroom)In all this painting, we even had a visitor....We caught Decker with the ceiling paint lid in his hands brought up to his tongue. We called 9-1-1 to be on the safe side, they got there in less than 2 minutes from our phone call and they called Poison Control and they said that it was a water based paint and he should be fine. Maybe we were a little over protective, but you never know....Decker loved hearing the sirens and seeing the big truck.. What fun!

And did I say? I'm tired of painting....

Job #1 Dry wall and Ceiling

So, first things first, Mike was determined to scrape all of the popcorn, (not infested with asbestos) off of the ceiling. I thought we could live with it and not incur an unnecessary expense that was so cosmetic, but it has really made a huge difference. We scraped the popcorn ourselves to save on a portion of the expense. We thought it was going to be a hard job, but it turned out to be a lot easier than we thought. The company http://woodinvilledrywall.com/ we chose was a huge blessing. Kim was great to work with and he let us borrow many of his tools to get our part of the job done so he could get his part done.

I was amazed at how dark and dirty the popcorn was and how fresh and clean a newly textured ceiling was.

These two pictures show where there used to be a wall separating the kitchen from the rest of the living space. We decided to get rid of the remnants and make it all one smooth transition.Here is the lovely laundry room without a ceiling and a sliding door that has a hole in it on the other side.Now it has a ceiling! Yeah! Good bye spiders and other creatures with more than 2 legs!Here Mike and Heath are framing a new door to our laundry room...and filling in a door space that made no sense going into the laundry room. It opened right smack into the water heater with barely enough room to get by.Some of the additional repairs, holes in the walls etc...this space is under the stairs. The previous owners dog spent some time in here..chewing and clawing..it's all gonna go. ;)

It's pretty exciting to see the changes and updates...can't wait till it's all ready to move in!