Spruce Day Six

Spruce Day Six

We removed the wall paper from the master bedroom and from the dining room today.  We painted the master bedroom with the Kilz primer coat today too.  Tomorrow it should be ready for a coat of color.

Giz and Grampy working hard!!!  Giz worked with us some on the walls, and she scrubbed down the entire kitchen.  She cleaned out all the drawers, shelves, and windows.  We have been bringing boxes of our food each morning, and she has been organizing our pots, pans, dishes, and food.

Pappa working hard!

Dd painted her stairwell and the loft today---she gave the loft a second coat of Kilz.

This is after we got all the wall paper off the walls.

This is after the whole room has been coated in Kilz---the dark blue carpet and wall paper are behind us now!

We brought in the brown rug for our dog, Sophie to lay on while we worked...spoiled dog!

See the pretty wall paper?  I really liked this wall paper, but it had to go!  And go it did!

Taking off all the fixtures

Team

Work!

Here is the same wall minus the pretty wall paper

One white room!

Here is the master closet dry

Our piles of carpet are getting smaller each day!


We are behind schedule of where we thought we would be by now...but, we are progressing!

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Spruce Day Five

Spruce Day Five

Today we worked until Giz and Grampy arrived.  We painted the master closet, peeled wall paper from master walls; and painted the floor in Dd's loft bedroom.  Once G&G arrived, we had tours to do, and lots of catching up.  Tomorrow should be more productive.

Before

After

 the paint is still wet, so it looks streaky.

Tomorrow Dd will put another coat down on her floor.

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Day Four Spruce

Day Four Spruce

Before I show you all what we did today; here is what the rooms that we finished yesterday looked like today.  I didn't get a photo of the rooms after they got the whole floor covered.  It still needs another top coat, with a nice color---it won't be white when our work is complete!

The living room

Master bedroom...and Sophie!

Master bedroom, dif view

Now---on to Day Four!

Even though Dh added more carpet and foam from the stairs, and I added from the Grandparents room, in this picture we have already hauled away 3-4 piles to the dumpster.  From now on these piles will be getting smaller as we haul away...and hopefully not add much to it!

Kilz...one of my favorite products!  

Today we spent ALL our time up here in Dd's loft.  It had hundreds of staples and lots of carpet stripes to remove---then Dd and I painted all the trim with Kilz

Here is a portion of the treasures Dd has already brought over from the apartment.  She holds her Lego's in her lap for each trip over.

Dd had the genius idea to use a car 'crawler' to work her way along the walls to do her work.  During her many breaks I used it and found it to be so much easier on my body than bending and leaning.

Here is the far side of the loft---Spackle done!  we used another whole tub of Spackle today.  

Staples up, Carpet Stripes up, trim down...

Happy worker---she earned a Star Wars figure for all her hard work!

Kilz on the stairs going down, as we call it a day!  We didn't get as much done without Dh here to help.  Plus Dd takes a LOT of breaks during the day!  But, it is progress!  Giz and Grampy arrive tomorrow to help us with the work; and I'm sure Giz will have good food to keep us going!

Dd took pictures of some of the flowers in front of the house:

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Spruce Day Three

Spruce Day Three

We had Dh with us today to work!  We put up one bird feeder on Day One, and by Day Two we had Tufted Titmice coming.  On Day Three a skinny squirrel found it!  Dh was joking about wondering how much he will weigh after we've lived here six months!!!  The squirrels at our apartment look like they have been spoiled!!!

The first two days we heard a Barred Owl and saw an Indigo Bunting.  We have seen so many birds--some that I am not positive (yet) what they are!  I am really looking forward to seeing some new and different birds.  Of course the usual birds were around--Cardinals, Chickadee's, Blue Jays...I keep hearing woodpeckers; but I haven't seen exactly which ones are here.

Day Three started at 9am and ended around 8:30pm...long day!

Dd cleans out the fireplace.  It has soot build up and needs a professional cleaning.

Here the LR is finally free of carpet stripes and staples...ready to Spackle.  I used up a brand new tub of Spackle on day three!  You can see Dd brought her two favorite American Girl dolls (on top of the fireplace mantle); they kept cracking the whip!

Dh was the designated carpet strip remover!  Those carpet stripes are really a bear to get up!

This is the master closet--still has the carpet stripes down, but Dd and I got all the many staples pulled up

We got the carpet up, but there are still staples on the stairwell down to the basement

We removed the wallpaper to see how the walls were underneath--so thankful they are fine.  

This is the future homeschool room---carpet and padding up, but still carpet stripes.  The white carpet is gone! 

This is the 'grandparents room'--the pink carpet is gone, but the foam padding is still down--it is giving me a hard time!  they really glued it down!

This is the master bedroom--carpet stripes and staples gone

Dd is pulling staples in the hallway, and I've begun to Spackle!

While I Spackle, Dh is removing the carpeting on the stairwell going up to the loft--white carpet gone!

Spackle done!  Dd bought a hand-held sander to sand down the Spackle bumps after I finished---I didn't get a pix of him doing his part....

Spackling the master bedroom, and master closet---which at this point I used up the whole tub of Spackle!  I've never used up a whole tub in one day before!!

Here are the carpet stripes...full of sharp nails!  

Dh finished the stairwell--Dh got all the white carpet up(and carpet stripes, but there are still some staples

We painted the Living Room with Kilz

We painted the MB with Kilz

Doesn't this look so much better than that dark blue carpet?!

I didn't get a final picture, but we finished the 2 rooms in Kilz, and it was after 8 pm...so we cleaned up and headed home.  Dh has to be in to work in the morning, and Dd and I are back to working without him.

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