House Renovations at end of August 2015

House Renovations at end of August 2015

This past bit, we were not happy with how the living room and master bedroom floor was doing---especially compared to how nice the basement room floors are doing.  The floors in the basement were covered with polyurethane after the "stone" floor paint, and that really made the floors look and feel "finished".  So, we Spackled some of the spots that were sketchy and have now painted over the Spackle with two new coats of "stone".  We have to let that dry for three days before we can paint on the polyurethane.  We are sleeping in the basement while our bedroom is out of business.  Dd is fine going up to her loft--no work going on there.

Here is how the living room (and bedroom) floor looks now:

I have finally got 99% of our homeschooling books on the shelves in the "library" and in the spare bedroom in the basement.  I still have about 40 boxes of "fun" books that I have not unpacked yet.  We don't need to worry about those books for a while.  

The bookshelf on the left is mostly our science books..except for our Apologia and SL science books, which is in the library.

The closet is some biography, history, geography mixes.

Here is the spare bedroom--how it is coming along:

You can kind of see how nice and shiny (and super clean) our new floors are in these photo's.  So glad we thought to do the final coats of polyurethane, that really was the perfect finishing touch!

Here is how the library is coming along:

It might look random, but I spent a LOT of time getting all our books in the exact right spot.  I have some bookshelves for one particular subject, and some of the shelves are done alphabetically...but, it took me many long hours to get them all in the spot where I could find exactly what we need, without fuss.

Here is how the basement living room/ rec room is coming along, big changes this week:

The scrapper in Dh's hand is what took up all those tiles! Praise the Lord!  We thought we would have to use chemicals to get those things up...we did it by hand, thankfully!

We had to take off the oak siding since the previous people had let their pets use the basement as a potty.  

This section HAD tile down, but we got that all up and out.  There was a ballet bar across the mirror, that Dh took out.  We have no idea what we are going to do with that huge mirror!

You can see in this picture that I have already scrapped off the black glue off from the drywall.  Scrapping it off took a long time, but luckily I found the perfect tool for doing it...the same tool I used to get off wallpaper, actually.

You can see on the left, under the window, we have found mold...now we have to cut out all that dry wall, insulation, and replace it.

Here is the hallway---getting Kilz paint to seal it.

Half the floor has been painted with Kilz, the other side still needs some scrapping off of glue to happen before it can be sealed.

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