When we got home from our crazy, long Christmas trip I was pretty determined to catch up on blogging, and I did mostly. It helped that we had fun "pink" news to share. So I got caught up and then shortly thereafter Taylor got his Christmas bonus and we finally felt good about investing a little more in our home. The past 2 years we've only done the minimum to maintain our 1960's home (new main water line, fixed lighting that didn't work, etc.) and none of it really very fun to spend money on. But since last year we finished up our outstanding debts we were excited to make some fun changes to our home and in the grand scheme of things make it more marketable in case something happened with Taylor's job and we needed to sell quickly.
First on the list (and has been since we moved in) was new carpet. We bought our home from Taylor's parents who had used it mostly as a guest house/storage unit/place for Taylor's grandpa to stay for the last few years when his health was deteriorating. And let's just say that the carpet was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen- and I've been to A LOT of homes and nasty college apartments- so that's saying a lot. So new carpet was needed. But if we were going to get new carpet we figured we should paint the bare, white walls that hadn't been painted in at least the past 10 years. And if you're going to paint walls, you might as well paint the ceilings and the trim and the doors to go with it. Otherwise you just start to notice how old and dirty it all is.
So one fun project (getting new carpet) turned into LOTS of projects- and all needing to be done in a very short time since the carpet was ordered and on it's way.
So we lived like this for a few weeks: beds/dressers/etc all pushed into the middle of each of our 3 bedrooms and the toy room. And we spackled, and patched, and taped, and edged, and painted, and painted, and painted. Luckily we didn't care about the carpet getting spilled on so we made lots of messes and spent almost 2 months of Saturdays working together to get it all done.
Luckily I had Spider-Milo to help me.
He faithfully followed me around while I prepped each room and painted. And he honestly never tired of climbing up and down the step ladder.
All 3 of our kids were little troopers- entertaining themselves while we did all the work and then going along for all the trips to furniture stores and IKEA once the job was done and rooms were ready to be filled again.
Of course with new furniture comes fabulous empty boxes to play in- so who can really argue with that? So 4 rooms done in the house now (the living room/dining room did get done 2 years ago) and someday a major kitchen reno and basement redo. Fun to plan, but I think I've had enough remodeling for a few years! And since the work took almost 2 months I'm dedicating a blogpost to each of the 4 rooms- cause they deserve it!!!
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