Day 1: House of Tape and Spackle

Here's the raw house, as we got it.

The Kitchen

The Dining Room

The Living Room

The Guest Bath

The Guest Bedroom

The Hobby Room

The Master Bedroom

The Master Vanity

The Basement


As you can see, every flat surface in the entire house is painted the exact same shade of 'renter's beige', or whatever that color is. We'll be doing something about that: We bought about 26 gallons of paint the other night. We have a plan. (really)

In addition to painting, we're going to rip up and replace the carpets in the three upstairs bedrooms right away, and do something about the rest of the flooring later. The first big thing we got accomplished was to have the garage door fixed. It only cost about $100 and the previous owners hadn't bothered to have it done the entire time they lived there.

Not to mention that they didn't bother to clean anything, and threw a screaming full-on raging hissyfit when it was suggested they should. There's dust caked up in this house you wouldn't believe. Also, it seems that no tenant in the entire 25 years of this house's existence has ever spackled over a nail hole in the wall. EVER. There's about a dozen holes around the top of every single window where each person who lived here hung curtain rods up in a different place and tried to hide the holes of the previous people.

So guess how the morning started? Unfortunately, I had to go to work today, which left Lea to finish cleaning and start taping baseboards, doors, windows, floors, and vents to prep for painting.

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More to come tomorrow!