More DIY

I outlined some of the things we did in the past year and my sweetheart has uploaded a lot of work-in-progress pictures of our activities. I know we did a lot, but when I review what he's posted I realize we did even more than that. In one of the bedrooms we had shelves along one whole wall, which we removed and then built in a lot of shelves in the closet instead. We now have one large closet mostly full of toilet paper, boxes of tissue and rolls of paper towel. Remember the toilet paper shortage? We don't. The closet was already full.

Before we did any of the floors we went through and painted each room. It just made sense to splatter the old carpet we were removing, rather than mess up the new flooring.

You know how I said we painted the walls, well painting them was the least of it. All of the ceilings have that horrible "popcorn" finish, so if you brush against it it falls off like dandruff. What's worse is that if it gets wet like with the edge of a brush or roller touching it, the popcorn starts to slide all over the place getting stuck in the paintbrush and roller and transferring to the newly painted walls. YUCK!

Then there's the stairwell which was previously painted with a gloss paint so the whole area had to be sanded down completely before it could be painted. Even with the extension ladder I couldn't reach up near the ceiling, (the ceiling with the horrible popcorn on it so it was necessary to be especially careful.) That meant of course the Rob had to sand and paint that area because he's taller and could reach it. 

You know what's really, really scary about that? Rob has Meniere's disease, so he's ALWAYS dizzy. If you want a recipe for disaster, put a dizzy person on the top of an extension ladder propped up in a stairwell. I spent most of my time clinging onto his legs just to make sure he didn't fall.

Once we got the floors and walls done, we finished off each room by buying new blackout drapes and getting rid of the ugly old shades, drapes and blinds.

If you like seeing DIY projects in process, take a look at what my sweetheart uploaded the other day. There are pictures of the cannonball bed being made along with some speeded up movies from the garage camera. http://www.rsbriggs.com/bed/

Then there are pictures of each of the rooms before and after we worked on them.  http://www.rsbriggs.com/lam/