It's been a while since I've posted here. I'd like to say I have a valid reason, but I don't. I just haven't had much to say. Even though lots of things have been going on at our house.
We got this wild idea to paint our living room for a quick update that wouldn't be drastically expensive. Seriously, nothing is worse than 68 year old, TEXTURED, plaster walls painted baby blue. They haven't been painted in who knows how long and have a nice coat of cigarette smoke from previous inhabitants. Did I mention that all the trim throughout the house is painted with cream colored oil based paint?
We started with the trim because we knew it would take a while as it need to be sanded. So we sanded. And stripped (the paint, although it certainly would've made things interesting). And sanded. And stripped. All 18,973,392 coats of paint. It. Sucked. No, C didn't do all of it, I just took more breaks than he did.
C repeatedly dropped hints over that weekend that insulation was on sale at Lowe's, blah blah blah. Although I realized he was making a valid point, (our house has no insulation in any of the exterior walls) I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do about it. So I did what any wife with white hair from sanding and an extra day because it was a holiday weekend would do. I took the hammer to the wall and created a hole in the plaster large enough that it couldn't be easily patched.
Soon that became this.
There are a lot of safety issues I should point out here. We should've worried about lead this and asbestos that. We did atleast wear those mask thingys. Bottom line, if you decided to take on a project like this, you may want to have those things professionally checked out first.
See, no insulation. Excuse our temporary window coverings.
Right here, C is installing more receptacles and replacing all the old wiring so later he can tie them into a new breaker box and my worries of dying in a house fire will be severely reduced.
Our dog Jake should've been named Sup, short for Supervisor. He's convinced that no matter what you are doing, he needs to be right there to watch. This includes using the restroom, taking a shower, cooking, anything.
Since C does electrical stuff all day, he convinced me we need to install can lights. Now that we have them, I believe just changing the lights would've made a huge difference but it's too late for that now. See Sup Slacking...
Hopefully this coming weekend C will be done with his first real experience mudding and we'll be able to prime, paint and put all the trim back on. Next on our list... those really outdated windows... okay maybe our son's room. I just can't decide.
