House Repairs

With the warm weather and upcoming visitors, we have furiously been working on the house. More specifically the guest bedroom. We've managed to take down all the wall paper (no easy feat when there were 3 layers) and half the room primed and ready for painting. We'll spend the rest of this week and weekend to finish priming, then painting. The linens are ordered, the area rug is in route and our guest arrives next Friday. Lots to get done in one week but I know we can do it. Photos will come when the finished product is ready for debut.

Learnings From Project One - The Carpet

• Tearing out carpet is disgusting, especially when the carpet is 40 years old.

• There's a good chance the carpet pad underneath will disintegrate on contact with air.

• Always have fun - it makes things so much easier

• If it seems too easy, brace for the hardship, because it's coming (and it came... in the form of a stairwell runner)

• Plumber's crack is funny, even when you're not a plumber and ESPECIALLY after 9 hours of removing carpet, tack and staples from 4 rooms and 15 stairs.

• Shop vacs are the greatest invention known to man - they pick up the biggest piles of disintegrated carpet with the greatest of ease.
  

• When all is said and done, and you've actually completed your project, you feel pretty good.