It’s always Autumn in England

I read a series of books recently and one of the characters always used to say, "No rest for the wicked, and the righteous don’t need none."

Well, this weekend is all about laying the hardwood in the living room. I think we are doing a total of just under 500 sqaure feet of hardwood downstairs. I am so excited to see the final product. The living room is painted and ready to go, so the flooring is the final touch. Other than buying furniture and the wood burning stove…so I guess there are a few more pieces to go! But, hey, this is HUGE!!

Evan and a couple people helping today and tomorrow, so I figure I will finish the last 2 rooms of painting. The kitchen already has primer and 1 coat of colour, so the final coat of colour will definitly go on today.

I need to put primer and paint in the utility room too.

I will be pleased if we get those two rooms and the flooring done. Then, next week will be spent touch up paint in a couple places, having the duct work cleaned out and the carpets cleaned.

We plan to move in on Friday & Saturday next week, the 3rd and 4th April. I CAN’T WAIT!!! I am so tired, that I am just ready to not work 8 hours, drive to the new house work 3-4 more hours, drive home to Bill & Janes, to shower and go to bed around 11pm, just to wake up at 6:30am and start all over again.

Here are the new lights in the kitchen, before and after!

Still needs to be painted and cleaned, but at least we have light! I can’t find a picture of the old light at the moment. I think that is on my laptop and not the home computer. If I find it, I will add it later.

We are making progress, and here are a few pictures to prove it!

 spiderman room before

 spiderman room into an office

 child’s room before

guest room to be

The master bedroom in all of its glory before painting:

And now, with two coats of primer.

Day 1 and Day 2 of stripping wallpaper in the living room. I have only worked a couple of hours in the evening on this, so I think I am doing well considering this is maybe 2-3 hours of work.

We got the keys to the house yesterday! We spent an hour or so walking around, looking at everything we want to do and where to start. We noticed now that the house is empty, that there are literally HUNDREDS of screws in the walls from where they had stuff hung up. So, the plan formed that I would start removing screws and filling holes while Evan paints the ceiling. We want to have those two things done, so that this weekend, when several friends/family come, we can be painting walls.

However, that plan slightly changed this morning, when Evan started his truck to head over to start working on the ceiling, and his truck started gushing fluid. I was really still half asleep, but I think he said it was the water pump? His dad said it might just be a hose…I hope so, because otherwise it means a new truck.

So, I quickly got my pro-active head on, and said, well, we can just clean the carpet and duct work and move in. Spend the money we would use on paint and flooring to put a deposit on a new truck and then just do the work month by month while we live there. Not as simple, and I really don’t want to live with the paint or carpet that is there, but it would be possible.

Anyway, that is where we stand. The truck will go in tomorrow morning, and they are usually pretty good about looking at it early and telling us what needs done by noon. We will wait and see.