I found this on my computer, I think the Whiskey set in before this was posted!
If you have ever seen the show “Renovation Realities” on DIY
network you might be familiar with DIY. Preston and I love to watch that show
and laugh because we have experienced many of the same battles (although, none
of them have experienced anything like shit-mageddon. That would have been an
amazing episode, or flea ridden home for months, or well-read some of the
blogs.) Well, this weekend we decided on a whim to overhaul our living room. It
had been a source of anger for months but we had just not quite gotten to it.
Our first night at our home we spent the night on boyscout cots to wake up
covered in fleas. At 5 am in the morning we ripped out the carpet, under the
carpet we found an odd sight: a floor covered in splattered white paint (we
thought) about 200 staples with carpet fuzz still attached, and a large section
right in the middle of the floor that looked as if whoever had stained the
floor had not bothered to move the rug in the center of the room and just
stained around it; beautiful, just wonderful. We just put this room off and
tried to just live. A few months went by
and one nice evening, Preston and I were having a lovely time watching the
newlywed game and of course playing along, and all of the sudden while Preston
walked across the room he started shouting and grabbing his foot! Blood started
gushing out from his foot and we found that one of the carpet staples had
punctured his foot deeply. After that it wasn’t long before we had to get
revenge on this living room.
Well, the time had come and we decided to finally get
revenge on this room. Without any real plan of action we began to empty the
room, as we went we decided the popcorn ceiling HAD TO GO! Seriously, I would
like to find the inventor of popcorn ceilings and punch him in the face. Once we had decided on ripping out the whole
ceiling and painting the walls our attention was drawn to the horrible
fireplace, it was like something straight out of 1975 threw up all over it, and
as a bonus we found the 102 year old mantle was literally falling off the wall
and taking some of the floor trim, and wall paneling with it. After several
trips around Floor and Décor we decided on new tile for the fireplace; a
beautiful marble tile that looked like it had been sort of distressed. Since neither
of us had ever tiled anything before we figured why the heck not just go for
it! We are pleasantly pleased with the results. *pictures below*
Once we got to work on the living room we showed it no
mercy, it took us 2 days to completely re do this room and we are pooped.
During those 2 days we spent many hours demoing the ceiling and painting it
with two coats of white paint, repaired the 1970s paneling (yes we repaired it,
we don’t have the money to replace it all with drywall and since our house is still
on knob and tube we’ll probably have to rip it all out someday anyways. As a
side note, to cut paneling the best way is a razor blade, but any way you do it
it’s still a pain in the ass) painted the walls a beautiful grey color,
repaired 102 year old baseboards, painted the ceiling fan, ripped out and
re-tiled the fireplace, and oh! That was all in one day. The next day (Sunday)
we decided to take things a little slower, so we grouted the tile work we had
finished at 1am, cleaned the floors twice; which ended up not to have paint
splattered on it. Nope, it was the droppings from the popcorn ceiling that had
been installed; thank goodness they had put carpet over it instead of actually
cleaning it like non lazy people. Stained the floor a dark color and we are now
just waiting for it to dry so we can polyurethane it. There is a little bit of
trim work still to do, but this weekend is almost over and it’s whiskey time.
Oh, PS. Preston’s new nick names are: Preston-the Grout
Master-Ragsdale and Preston-demolition-Ragsdale, and mine is: Bailey-the bad
ass- Ragsdale and Bailey-the plant killer-Ragsdale.
P.S.S John Wayne is still the best in my book. Second to Preston of course.
Before: Please note they stained around the rug in the center of the room, there was horrible pop corn ceiling, and the fireplace was just plain terrible.
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