Day 4

No pictures today because there is not much to show. I was supposed to have the entire day off work but ended up working about seven (7) hours...yeah, so much for vacation. Anyway, tonight I was able to finish all the edge work on the yellowish wall. I need to work on the inside of the closet and the closet door but that will come later. I also figured out how to put up the ledge and ruined one board cutting it wrong (nope, not sharing a picture of that. :) ). Anyway. I will be prepping walls for paint tomorrow and finishing the wainscoat on the west wall. I'm hoping that we can figure out the ledge so that I can start painting the wainscoat on Wednesday.

In the meantime, I have  website to build, interviews to complete, a hair appointment and some shopping/wrapping to do. I hope I survive until Friday! It's definitely going to be a fun week.

Cross your fingers that I get the ledge/shelf up tomorrow so I have some cool pictures to share!

day 2-3

So here are some pic updates for days 2-3. The walls that used to have wallpaper are all painted. In the picture you can see that I still need to paint the edges but everything else is done. The other walls are not going quite so fast. The wainscoat is going up. Progress is much slower than than I want, but I can't wait to get it finished, painted and the ledge done. It's going to look FABULOUS!! Here are the pictures.

Stage one - complete!

So, I'm really changing the walls upstairs. I want do something with wainscoat (yes, I love the stuff). So, I decided to take it all the way to the top of the windows. I also wanted some red in the room (well, yes, red...i love red). But, I need to lighten up the walls because my carpet is going to be darker. So, I'm putting red above the wainscoat, you'll just see peeks of it above everything else. This last weekend, I completed painting the red. It looks a little funny right now but I have the vision! I wish I could have done more but, alas, work called me to vegas so I could jump off the skytower. :) Here are pictures of my slightly red walls.

first task - wallpaper begone!

On the wall that runs down my hallway lived some wallpaper and a chair rail. Now, this wallpaper is not ugly, it is just not what I want. So, we tore it all down, sanded and retextured the walls. Look! We are ready for paint!

A peek into the two messy rooms I get to clean before the carpet comes...and the first wall I finished prepping for paint. :)  

before

I want to have documentation of what I'm about to do on my house. So, I'm uploading the before pictures of my upstairs. I'll soon start uploading the activities I get done as I do them.

 This is the corner with my windows. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with curtains. I'll post when I figure it out!

The back corner of the room. Here all things shall meet. I will have fun trying to match everything up here.

The main wall (separates the kitchen from our living room). Nicely decorated for holidays right now. All that will come down before Christmas unfortunately. Notice the beautiful blue carpet?

my sky jump!

I had so much fun on my sky jump! It was surreal how calm I was through the whole thing until they said JUMP then I freaked out for a split second and then jumped. I would totally do this again. Here's the video of my grand adventure.

the great remodel of 2010

The great remodel (which really isn't more than new paint and carpet) is about to begin. I was planning to wait until I had two weeks off work and do it all then but now I don't really have two weeks off so I'm going to get started this weekend. Besides, I'm finding that I really can't wait. I'm so excited!!

Check back often this month for picture updates and craziness. It will be interesting to see how well it all comes together. Just in case you are wondering, here are the plans:

1. Living room upstairs: remove wallpaper, fix all the holes, new paint, new carpet
2. Wells's bedroom: clean and new carpet
3. Master bedroom: clean and new carpet
4. Family room downstairs: remove built-in cabinet, fix all the holes, new paint, new carpet

Just a little something to do because I don't have anything better to do. :)