A starry night and new floors

Several updates...

Here's a photo of the slate floor that we are removing in the foyer... followed by the sanded upstairs floor.

Then, there is a couple of photos of the painting on Katy's ceiling...It's a crappy knock-off of "A starry night" but, Katy just LOVES her moon, so that makes me happy.

Ciao,

Robin

Pulling up carpet and Painting

More progress...Some positive and some NOT-SO. Aargh.

The positive? I pulled up carpet on the first floor today, and moved around furniture so that you can actually see the floor. The problem is that we have all the furniture for the house on the first floor until the painting (more on that later!) and floor refinishing is completed on the second floor. The net result is WAY too much furniture in WAY too little space. Now there's still too much furniture but it's much neater now.

The painting has been a different story. I am so irritated with myself that I can't hardly stand it. I started painting Katy's room a sort of periwinkle blue....No problem, and I think I like the color. I'm including that photo just to show off the color. The problem came in when I painted our master room. The color I wasn't sure about, but it was growing on me.....UNTIL I realized that I was a complete moron and should have primed the (obviously!!!) lead-based walls as the paint started flaking off in big nasty bubbly sheets. So now I get to strip the entire room and start over. Who DOES THAT? I totally should have realized that I needed to prime those walls, and now I will have plenty of good quality time stripping and remembering that particular nugget of home renovation advice.

Aargh.

And I STILL can't decide if I like the color.

Double-Aargh.

Kitchen renovation

Here's some photos of the kitchen renovation, underway. We removed the wall between the dining room and kitchen; now we need to figure out exactly what we are going to do. Have a kitchen designer helping me with that process now...

Our New House--Starting renovations

So, we just closed on our new house last week. Here's some photos. We have a TON of work that needs to be done--the kitchen is the first project, and I will upload photos of the progress on that in a few minutes. But for now, this is our house as of the home inspection in the middle of May. We closed on 24 June 2007.