Progress with a capital P!

Part of my day included laundry, folding/putting away clean laundry, making lunch, and tackling some of the mess in our house.   Look closely at the floor!

Dining Room 

Before

After

Before - other angle

And After :D

Now that's what I call progress!!

Primer went up!

Everett has been working really hard on our house!  Yesterday he finished mudding, sanded the mud, and the walls that we didn't tear down and primed the ceiling and walls!  Wooot! 

I have no photos, but I was so excited I just needed to share the news!!  We will hopefully be putting colour on the walls on Monday :D

Update on the wood floors

Everett worked really hard yesterday, with my brother and dad and they got tons accomplished and I can't wait to actually see it in person.  Ev sent me these pics, so I thought I'd give you all an update!

When you're looking at these pictures, if the wood looks like incredibly different colours, it's because some is super dirty with drywall dust and plaster dust and some is clean (because it was being protected by ugly lino during demo.)

Originally the floor looked like this, remember (carpet, linoleum and finally wood)

 

 

Then here's the during picture, looking great: 

(by the door if you look close you can see that it's not quite finished)

 

And.......NOW...finished :D

 

 

In the corner, there used to be a bit vent covering, but apparently it was useless or something, so they covered it up. (which I am sad about, because I loved that corner vent cover, but I'm told to just put it on the wall or something...)   Anywho, so they needed to replace the surrounding boards and cover the place where the vent was.

So here you can see the white, that's the filled in part, and surrounding if you look close needs boards too

And after, all filled in!

 

Woot woot, progress!  :D  I've got such hard working men in my life!  Thanks guys!

Progress

(I'll apologize in advance for the lack of pictures!  I keep forgetting to upload them from my phone)

So, I have progress to report!!  YIPEE!

On Saturday we had a work crew out at our house.  Consisted of Everett, me, his brother and sister in law, my dad and my brother!  They (because I didn't do that much work) sanded the mud and tape, and did another coat, ripped up the two layers of linoleum (pics to come of that later), cut the floor out where the new master bathroom is going (because we don't want hardwood floor there) and then pulled up the boards and hammered the nails out! 

Then yesterday my dad and brother went back to help Ev, sanded again, and they worked on filling the floor.  So here's what it has looked like through out the demo!

Here's a pre-demo pic of the closet.

Then here we are in mid demo, you can see carpet in the closet.

And in this one we removed the closet walls and carpet, 

to find linoleum glued onto original hardwood floors.

So, you can see we put in drywall, have done some mudding, and the floor is almost whole again!  :D

So today, the hard workers may be back at it, and that means that we should be able to prime soon :D :D :D
We also need to sand, stain, varnish/coat etc the floors too, all before Feb 17, when our amazing bed will be delivered!  It's looking like we're right on track!

We've got colour!

None of the paints we bought are the exact colours that I posted earlier, but we are really excited about them!  I tried to find pictures online of the colours, but I am unsuccessful!  So, you will just have to wait! 

It was a bit of a crazy weekend.  Friday at one location we were told the big sale (Buy 2 get 1 free) on paint was only till Thursday, then Saturday my Mom and I went into a different location, and they said the sale was on till 4pm.  So I phoned Ev, he had most of the samples that I wanted, so we talked through most of it, I picked one colour, and he likes it! 

Saturday Ev, one of his friends and my brother in law got tons of work done.  They did some wiring, fixed a hole in the floor which used to be a return vent into the 2nd room and is now where the doorway to the closet is.  They narrowed the closet door to 26" rough instead of 32" rough, so that we can have more closet storage.  They also drywalled the ceiling in the master, and part of the "new" wall.  We will need to do some work on the floor to fix where the closet was, as well as in the door way from the bedroom to the closet.  They also got a bunch of lumber for framing the rest of it, a standard light fixture so that they can have light in there and some different screws etc! 

It's so exciting to see it start to feel like a room again!  I can't wait to paint!!

Saturday my Dad's side of the family surprised me with a Pampered Chef bridal shower!  Yipee, more Pampered chef!  It was really fun, and now I get to make out another wish list! 

Paint colours I'm eyeing!

These are the colours I'm debating between.  I need to consult Everett tonight yet.  But I'd like your imput!  These first colours are ideas for the master bedroom.

Thunderstorm 

Herringbone

Tarnish

Peppercorn - (I think it's probably too dark)

 

Elephant - I think I'd lean towards this one more.

Convertible - a few weeks ago I wouldn't have put this colour in there, but it's growing on me.

And the lighter colours I like....

 Fog

 

 Surf

 

Lichen

 

Retreat

 

 

 Then for the Master Bath - Ev already said we could do a purple :D :D

 

Velvet

 

Amethyst

 

Sapphire is blue, but nice

 

Then there are a few colours I like, but not sure where to put them!

 

Ocean Liner

Cashmere

 

Patina

 

 

There's a buy 2 get 1 free deal on this paint this week only, so I think we're going to have to boogie on over to the store and snatch some up!

 

 

Bisque - a potential kitchen cabinet colour (but really I shouldn't even be thinking about that!)

 

 

A splash of colour

We are currently trying to pick colours for our house.  The master bedroom is the main focus right now, since it needs to be done in 4 weeks!  Here are some amazing colours and inspirations.

I love this room for many reasons.  Love the wall colour, so calm and soothing.  Love the floors (ours are very similar).  Love the white trim and crown molding.  Love the fabric.  Love the fabric covered closets idea too.  I've been toying with this exact idea for a while now, (post here) so it's great to see that I'm not crazy and how beautiful it turned out!

~ Via Ten June ~

 

 This dark blue/purple/grey colour is amazing!  I love it, especially with the black and white furniture/accents!  It's also a colour that isn't super girly, or super manly which is amazing!  I showed Ev this picture and he also likes it!  I do have 2 white dressers that may end up in our bedroom, so that would look great!  If you follow the link to her blog you can see her green dresser (its peeking in on the right edge of the pic), which is also amazing!  I also love those curtains and the huge cube shelves! 

~ Via Emily A. Clark ~

Going darker  yet is this beautiful grey!  Man it looks so amazing with the white contrasting trim!  Can you tell I love white trim!

~ Via The Lennoxx ~

 

This is also really pretty!  Like a relaxing sanctuary

~ Via Kristin~

So, I love the light blueish/green colours and the dark blue/purple/grey/brown colours. 

This one is really cool, Everett isn't a fan, but I love the wall colour and headboard

(I can't remember where I found this :( sorry )

So, do we go dark or light?

The great reveal

On Monday evening Ev and I were at our house trying to finalize/make decisions for the wedding, as well as our house.  We did some measuring, trying to finalize where we want the door from the master to the closet. 

In the 2nd room we have that great yellowish/brown linoleum right now (picture above) and I was very curious if the original hardwood floor was underneath, since the master is the original hardwood. (see here)  So I started pulling and yanking on a chunk where we tore out the closet, and lo and behold...

HARDWOOD :D :D :D

 Yipee!  I'm really excited about that!  But who knows, we may end up covering some of it, or taking some out, since we don't really want hardwood in the bathroom.  It's kind of a shame, but we'll see what we decide.

The Reno - Cleaning up edition

So, after all the smashing, pulling, sawing and all the laths and plaster were down, we had to clean it up.  We had already taken away one trailer load, so it wasn't a huge amount of work, well, for me it was very little, because I wasn't even there!  Everett's brother and dad came to help him on Jan 3rd, they all had the day off!  It was grand!

From the 2nd bedroom looking at the Master

 

The 2nd bedroom window

Our current bathroom plumbing, that corner will be our master bath.

The guys went ahead and took down the whole ceiling/walls of the stairs too :D

Door from 2nd bedroom into dining room

This is where the pantry will be :)

Now taking a bit of a different angle, looking at the door to the basement

And open that door right up and what do you see???

Pretty much everything! Master bedroom..

Soon to be pantry area, walk in closet area....

You can't really see where the bathroom is going...

but you can see the basement :P

This (above)  is where my little tools (below) once had a home! See post.

Oh look, Everett's in the basement.

In this one he reminds me of a hedgehog or a gopher popping out of his hole!

And one more from the master bedroom.