Home Make Over

Well this weekend was even more crazy than I thought it was going to be. Friday night we pulled up the carpet in our third room and started taking off the "D" trim boards. I got to looking at everything and thought, well we are this far and are already making a mess.....lets just do the trim boards also and get everything done!

That took through midnight Friday and we finished up Saturday morning.
Once the boards were all off we were ready to start on the floors. Cathy took charge of the floor sander and went crazy. We sealed off the upstairs to keep the dust from infiltrating the entire house and I didn't see here again until it was all done!

After getting the floors done, cleaned and letting the dust settle for a few hours we jumped right into staining the floors. We had to let the stain dry for 8 hours so we were really pushing to get this done still Saturday so we could finish off the rooms on Sunday.

Fortunately we had nice weather because I spent the entire weekend from sun up to sun down in the driveway sanding. We literally had saw dust drifts by the back door, and piles of saw dust everywhere.

Sunday my parents came down to help us with all the finishing coats. We stained the boards early Sunday morning. It took until 6pm for that to dry so we put our clear coat sealer on in the basement.

Last night I started nailing the trim boards back up. That is going a little slower than I planned/hoped. I got about half of them up last night and should be able to get the rest finished tonight. We have to let the floors dry for 3 days before we can put down permanent furniture, so we are sleeping in the living room and have all our cloths in the bathroom. Everything looks really good though and I can't wait to see what it looks like all finished up.