Floors are Done!

We took a couple carloads over to the house tonight, and stopped upstairs to check out the newly finished floors now that they are dry. They look great! Almost all of the spots we were worried about sanded out perfectly, and the oak is beautiful. These pictures don't do it justice, taken at night with my little p&s camera. I'll try to get some daylight shots with the wide angle lens before we move in.

Also today, Dave ordered the cooktop he found. 5 burners, and it matches the fridge! Four nights left in the old apartment...

I forgot to mention, we bought a fridge on Friday. It's coming the day after Christmas. :)

6 Nights!

6 more nights left to sleep in the place I've called home for more than 9 years...

The floor guys came Friday, and although they still have to finish sealing the floor, we got a sneak preview of the sanded, partially sealed product and it's beautiful! It isn't perfect, but I like that. It is definitely better than we expected.

We are still moving little by little with a couple trips a night, filling the borrowed CRV with whatever boxes and smaller items will fit. I can't wait to be all moved in!

12 days left

12 days until we have to be out of the apartment

Took some bins of basement "stuff" over tonight. Dave's parents have spackled and painted the ceilings, moldings, window trims etc. Tomorrow the floor guys come.

Today I spent all Monday at the new house. Dave's parents came over and worked. I did a few things, and a lot of observing.

All the outlets and switch covers are off the walls in preparation for painting. His mom cleaned some of the windows (one room now smells like the annoyed stinkbugs that were hiding throughout the nooks and crannies of the window - yuck!). I pulled the ugly floral contact paper off of all the linen closet shelves.

His dad spent the day cutting the window hole in the kitchen wall and it looks awesome. I'll add a picture or two soon. Can't wait until it is all finished off!

Finally, we purchased the trim paint (Antique White) and ceiling paint, and ordered new mailboxes.

Today we finished pulling up all the staples and carpet tacks in the last two bedrooms! Dave also got it up off the landings at the tops of the stairs. Then we had the fun of cutting all the carpet and padding into smaller strips and rolling it up. We tied up the rolls with twine and Dave launched them out the back window to fall 3 stories to the driveway, where I darted out in-between falling carpet rolls to pull them into the garage. We'll attempt to discard them a roll or 2 at a time from now until we run out of places that will take them.

I also scrubbed the bathroom top to bottom and we found a shower curtain. :)

Tomorrow the floor guy comes to scope out the job. Next, a clean kitchen!

After a couple days away for a nice Thanksgiving, we drove back from Pennsylvania today, stopped home to change and went to work on the house. Tonight we pulled up more tack strips, scraped up the carpet backing paper/glue remnants, and got all the staples out of the living room, hallway, and first bedroom (office?)...

Dave's parents came by and helped appraise the wood floors, pull up staples, and start making plans to cut out a chunk of the kitchen wall for a breakfast bar window. And his dad had a great suggestion to tear out the carpet from the tops of the 2 stairwells so they could be redone to match at the same time.

Another discovery - glass panes in parts of the 2 apartment doors. Those will look really cool when we get the paint off of them.

As we were leaving tonight, the first-floor tenant leaned out the door and said (in a very accusatory tone) "Did you guys do something to the water because I have suddenly very low water pressure?!" Not even preceded by "Hi" or even "Excuse me." When we told her that we hadn't touched the water she slammed the door in our faces before we could even offer to check anything out for her. Who acts like that to a brand new landlord? Nutjob.

Working on the place was really fun tonight. The floor is coming along nicely and it feels great to be accomplishing something concrete.

Second Day

Tonight we pulled up staples and carpet-tack boards from the hardwood floor for 3 hours... looking better but lots to go. And we bought a pushbroom :)

First Day

We closed today and bought our new house. We already spent a couple hours tearing up all the carpets! Next come the staples left in the hardwood floor...