Here’s Oak scraping off the popcorn in the almost-last popcorny-room upstairs.

This is in the last bedroom with popcorn. (We have a “not-thinking-about-it-now room that still has it – our master bathroom. BOOO. But it doesn’t have carpet, so as far as we’re concerned it doesn’t exist at the moment)

Many milestones achieved this weekend:

• Our contractor came and installed the new subflooring in the gray bedroom and hallway.
• Put first coat on trim in gray bedroom.
• Re-hung fan in gray bedroom (Thanks Dave!)
• Oak finished mudding and sanding the aforementioned “last bedroom”
• We spent like 3-4 hours cleaning all the drywall dust off the floors of the bonus room on Friday night (yay!  engulfed in a dust cloud!).  However, we did learn the running the vaccuum in “wet mode” by putting some water in the bottom of the canister allows the suction to stay MUCH longer than using the filter, with the same amount of exhaust dust.  NICE shop vac tip there!!
• Washed all the bonus room walls with Murphy’s oil soap, which I’m convinced I am semi-allergic to, due to the minor rash I get from it EVEN WHEN I WEAR GLOVES!  What the heck.  Too bad this stuff works so well and smells nice.
• Primed the walls and ceiling of the bonus room.  Thanks Dave!
• Cleaned drywall dust off many hardware pieces, like all the switchplates, and the ceiling fans and other light fixtures that need to be re-installed.  Thanks mom!
• Painted the ceiling in the bonus room with our favorite Glidden color-changing paint.
• Put wood putty on trim in bonus & “last bedroom.”
• Murphy’s oil soap fun in “last bedroom.”
• Primer coat on walls, ceiling, and trim of “last bedroom.”

Hm.  No wonder I am tired.  haha.  This will probably be the last post I make before carpet.  We’re down to crunch time, folks..

Posted by Carrie on Monday, February 15, 2010
Categories: blog, home improvement · 2 Comments »