Lots of Projects

Lots of productive days at our house. We've been so busy this weekend I haven't had a chance to post about the wonderful things going on!

Saturday I powerwashed the front of the house before I had to return the powerwasher to my Colorado-bound parents. Here are some nice before/after shots.

Before

 

During

 

After

It may not look THAT much better, but I took off a lot of algae!

We also spent some time working on the living room. Most of the major stuff is finished in there. When the dropcloths finally come up we'll have some pictures of that.

Here's some nice shots of the clean kitchen, which I can take no responsibility for. Jeremy's Mom, all the way.

But this is what I spent my day doing... Erasing the green bit by bit.

The mirrors actually came down pretty much as soon as we walked in the house as homeowners... but I  had to use some old pictures for the "before" just in case this didn't stick out in your memory.

Erm. The primer looked a bit patchy in the little hall outside of the bathroom. I call it a vestibule. No matter, the priming issues hopefully won't show up under the paint.

 Freshly spackled walls.

Thank goodness! Hopefully this bathroom will be ready for painting soon. We've got to get that light/medicine cabinet out before we push forward.

Oh yeah, here's a picture of Katie the Visitor Cat. She's my sister's, but she's visiting for a little while! She refused to sit still so I could get a good shot.

Living Room Walls

It may seem like we haven't done anything since this weekend. Unfortunately it looks like that to me too, but I've been working. I've spent the last few days painting trim, wainscoting, and more trim and wainscoting.

We got the walls primed on Sunday.

I washed and primed the trim on Monday. We painted the walls and ceiling on Monday night.

I scrubbed the wainscoting for an absurd amount of time Tuesday morning. I painted 1/4 of the trim Tuesday during the day. That night Jeremy painted wainscoting while I painted, get this, more trim.

 Also, Jonas the Cat visited the house for the first time.

Wednesday--worked on more trim and the archway. Pictures of that coming later. Why does it feel like nothing is getting done?! All that gosh darn trim I guess.

Saturday Workday

Today both sets of parents came and helped out along with Jeremy's sis Kelly and husband Rob of Madison Square. We had a thoroughly productive day. Looks like the living room should be ready to be primed and painted tomorrow. :-) All three bathroom are now useable (except for the fact that the toilets don't work in two of them... but they're clean and that's what matters. The fridge got moved to the garage. The front doors got a good solid cleaning. The back patio got mowed and shoveled, as did the deck. The front flowerbeds got pruned and wrangled. Like I said, thoroughly productive.

Living Room Progress

You can't see it in the picture, but that's a FULLY mudded ceiling (pretty much). It's also caulked all the way around the molding, which was a very involved job.

Thanks Jeremy's Dad and Rob :-)

Back Patio and Deck

 If you could've seen what this looked like before. Let's just say you couldn't see the brick. It looked like a weed garden.

 First dinner at the house!

Thanks Laura's Dad (and Mom) :-)

Front Doors

Thanks Kelly :-)

Front Flower Beds

Thanks Laura's Mom :-)

No pictures of the cleaned bathrooms, but rest assured they exist. A final thank you to Jeremy for killing the wasps' nest in the back door. I got stung yesterday and again today. I'll spare you the pictures of my XL ankle.

Friday Workday

We're so blessed to have such awesome families to come and help us out. Friday Jeremy's parents came and spent the day with us. They cleaned bathrooms, stripped wall ceilingpaper, mudded, cleaned, etc... Below shows the various stages of ceiling prep. Pretty good at first (11 AM) but got a little hairy around 10 PM...

Then there's that lady (Jeremy's Mom) who did an AMAZING job of cleaning the bathroom. It needed it. DESPERATELY. It now looks like an entirely different room.

Officially Homeowners!

 Closing day--inbetween rain showers.

All Hail COMCAST, Giver and Taker of All Internets

Good news, everyone.
It looks like Comcast has fixed the internet for right now. So in a few minutes Laura will be posting an update.
News: We have our house now! Settlement went fine yesterday and today we started work!
We spent most of the day stripping wall paper off the ceiling of the living room (pictures later). The Gibb parents came down to enjoy the massive thunderstorms that came through this afternoon.