I know. I owe the world an upstairs house tour. Let me start off by saying – most of the rooms still look like a room with a pile of crap in the middle. Hopefully that will continue to get better as we get all the shelves installed in the closets and we can put stuff away. Now that the mini mudroom is enclosed from the outside at least, we no longer have a semi-urgent indoor-outdoor living situation. (OK it was really an indoor-garage living situation, but you get the idea).

I promise, promise as soon as we get some rooms semi-photo worthy, I’ll post pictures. For now, you can enjoy this lovely picture that Oak took of me during the Hell Week of Paint and Drywall. After rescheduling the carpet installation a few times, we decided we are going to get it DONE dammit! So we went at it hardcore. So hardcore we basically had to work on drywall and painting every day night for about 10 nights straight… No leisurely dinners after work, you chow down on Chinese or fast food or takeout (cooking takes too long!) and get a solid 6 hours of work in before bed at least! According to Oak’s uber project manager skills, it was possible. So we hoped.

When we were nearing the end, I was nearly losing it while painting the trim. So much, did I care that Oak took a picture of me with a huge piece of tape on my butt? Not Really. I didn’t even know that tape was there until he informed me AFTER he took the picture.

And uh yeah, the time stamp of this photo is at 3:48 am. On a work night.

I love the bonus room now, but .. when you’re trying to drywall and paint it, it’s a HUGE ass room! There are 7 windows alone!

We used to make fun of that “Renovation realities” show where people take on too much in too short a period. I have a feeling we could have been on that show with this project, though I don’t think their cameras appreciate giant drywall dust clouds.

And in case you were wondering, no, the hardcore-ness is not a sustainable practice. We still do SOME stuff during the week but we’re mostly just hardcore on the weekends now. Like the 27 doors I am still working on painting.. I’m about 2/3 of the way done.. Then we have to rehang all of them — lol!

Posted by Carrie on Friday, April 30, 2010
Categories: home improvement · 4 Comments »