Ok, so I admit I'm a little behind in posting renovation project updates. But putting down polyurethane til midnight everynight doesn't give a person the overwhleming urge to blog (not to mention the lightheadedness...but more about that later). Clearly we're way past weeks 3-4 into the project now, but I'll try to keep things chronological. When last we met, most of the demolition was complete, and the non-demolished half of the downstairs re-painted. Stuff that happened in the latter half of May:
1. Our master bath tub was delivered and we moved it into the house. This sounds like a small thing, but since the tub is made of cast iron and weighs 500 lbs empty, it was really quite a BIG thing. Our friend Adrian whipped up a furniture dolly in his garage and our strong-backed friends Brad and Carla helped with the actual lifting. Lucky us! Adrian will get his furniture dolly back soon...right after we figure out how to get the 500 lb tub off of it.
2. We learned that our 80 year old hardwood floors were coated not with polyurethane but with shellac.
3. We learned that when you attempt to screen and recoat shellac with a modern buffer, it melts. Sigh.
4. We took a deep breath and put in some very, very long days sanding our downstairs hardwoods back to bare wood, rather than the quickie screen and recoat we had initially planned. Although we both admit they look LOVELY afterward, and in retrospect are glad we did it.
5. We got a visit from Grandpa and Grandma Sonya and the boys got a new tire swing. I wish I had photos to share of the drama involved in hanging, un-hanging and re-hanging the tire swing, but I was too busy freaking out that someone was going to fall from the long, rickety extension ladder and/or knock someone else unconscious with the 10 foot long McGyver-like homemade pole/hook tool.
6. I put our kitchen barstools together. Given that my kitchen currently has no bar...or cabinets, walls or in fact a real floor as of the end of June, this was clearly a bit on the optimistic side. But a girl can dream.
Enjoy the slideshow...more updates and a few harrowing tales coming up soon.
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Mark's New Website
Mark has launched a new website for his law practice. Looks pretty cool, if we do say so ourselves! Check it out at www.appealnc.com
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