Day 24: House of the Finish Line

Well, that's it. We're not done with everything we thought we'd get accomplished, but the movers are showing up tomorrow morning. We still need to:

1. Put the last coat of paint on the baseboards in the foyer.


2. Put another coat on three interior doors.


3. Paint the living room windowsill (we completely forgot it was there.


4. Paint a second coat and 'drag' the top of the guest bathroom.


5. Put up shelves in the master closet.


6. Paint and tile the half-bath downstairs.


7. Tile the 'kitty room'.


8. Finish painting the fireplace

And that's just the stuff we'd thought we'd have time to do before moving in. There's also many more projects we'll take on in the future when we have money again. We have improved the house about 10,000%. Check out the special House of Blog Before-And-After

Kitchen
Before

After


Dining Room
Before

After


Living Room
Before

After


Guest Room
Before

After


Hobby Room
Before

After


Master Bedroom
Before

After


Basement
Before

After


The hardest thing this last week has been the overall feeling that for all our work we were getting nowhere. When we were painting the walls, there was definite visible progress to reassure us. This last week, we kept having to paint coat after coat after coat on the baseboards and doorframes and they always needed more paint. And we're still not through. AUGH!

Our first project this morning was to fix the lousy sheetrock and baseboard in the laundry room. Here's our jury-rigged solution:



Then we proceeded to take the remaining unpainted doors off their hinges so we could paint them outside without fear of getting anything on the floors. Lea did lots of clean-up while I was at work, then we started packing stuff up to bring over early. We know it's for real now that The Landlords Have Arrived

Toe

Zoe

Mercury

Tegan


A move never seems for real until the cats show up.

Well, that's all for the pre-move show. From here on I'll try to keep this blog up with weekly progress reports. And remember, if you want to show up and help, there's still plenty to do!!