http://carrievision.com Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:47:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our reward to ourselves after the major milestone of the carpet installation was a trip. We went on a Carribbean cruise, and it was EXACTLY what we needed after the extremely exhausting few weeks we had leading into the carpet installation. We're slowly getting back into the swing of "normal ... http://carrievision.com/2010/03/15/kickin/ One of the things we considered our first major milestone in the home reno, the upstairs carpet, was installed last Friday!  Woohoo!  Sure, I got painters wrist in the process, but we got it donezo!  Here we are enjoying our new carpet.. haha http://carrievision.com/2010/02/25/first-milestone-complete/ 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 ... http://carrievision.com/2010/02/15/bye-bye-popcorn/ We had the first major snow in the house this past month. We got about 6 inches of snow, shut down worthy in NC. Luckily for us we had plenty to keep us busy at home. However we did enjoy watching all the kids outside. For ... http://carrievision.com/2010/02/10/first-snow/ I'm back with an update on the basement bedroom. It's been "done" for at least a few weeks now, but I finally got down there to take a few pictures. Half the issue is that we haven't re-hung a light fixture in there yet, so I can't snap ... http://carrievision.com/2010/02/09/basement-bedroom-update/ Yes, we're still alive and still working on the house.  Unfortunately we've been enslaved to the evilness that is the Bonus Room.  While this is a wonderful room with lots of space (and a Wet bar! LOL)... it also means it has a LOT of drywall to be smoothed out.  ... http://carrievision.com/2010/02/08/still-workin-it/ Shortly after we moved into the neighborhood, we had one neighbor stop by with some banana bread that she made.  It was so nice.  Then, the next week, the homeowner's association "welcome wagon" came to say hello as well!  They promised us a welcome basket, which apparently they had run ... http://carrievision.com/2010/01/27/welcome-a-few-months-late/ I don't need to watch HGTV these days... I'm living it.  lol. Remember our guest bedroom?  The one with the crazy stained/water damaged subfloor and the hole in the ceiling?? Well, it's almost "done"!  (However, it was not without a few arguments over the entire "smoothing" process... the repair made it that ... http://carrievision.com/2010/01/26/hgtv-central/ It's not the painting that takes forever... it's all the prep work. We have one bedroom in our basement that is going to be carpeted, so we had to do the work down there as well. I'll try to take you through the process of that one room ... http://carrievision.com/2010/01/18/prepping-the-basement-room/ We didn't encounter all that much wildlife at our townhouse, really. But, oh boy, since we've moved to this spread-out subdivision with tons of trees, we're seeing all sorts of stuff. First of all, there are like a billion squirrels. They run around the yard, sometimes they ... http://carrievision.com/2010/01/13/wildlife/