My Feet Are Tired!

[Kimmyt]

Our house has wall to wall green carpet. Dark green. I like the color, but in such quantities... it's hideous. Along with the wallpaper and border in almost every room that is a yucky green and paisley type style. We have pulled most of it off and are painting, but they put the wallpaper right over the drywall when building the house and it is proving difficult (i.e. lots of patching, priming, etc. until it looks decent to paint). Now we just have the great room (i.e. ping pong room) and the kitchen to do. They put the wallpaper under the cabinets. Sometimes this house makes me wanna cry.

But when we're done with it, it'll look beautiful.

K.

[Trek420]

My place already smells better I can hardly wait to have it all cleared out. It's much fun moving .... within my own home though

[Tuckervill]

Would you please tell my husband how lucky we are? All he can do is whine about how much work it's going to be to dig them out!

K.

You're so lucky! We're putting in glue down engineered flooring. We grew up in Maine with real wood floors and as much as we tried to ignore the click sound of floating floors... we just couldn't.

It's a royal pain in the arse to put in a glued down floor on a slab. The surface has to be level and so "lucky" Thom has had to grind away parts of the slab or fill depressions.

But the parts that are done, I am just thrilled with.

V.

[7rider]

Ugh. I feel your pain.
We recently went through a spasm of renovation in our house.
Ugly wallpaper came down. Old carpet came up. Hardwood exposed.
It seems a bit louder in the house, and we can certainly hear the other when walking around, but ... sigh ... I so prefer the hardwood.
Here's a pic of the task half done.

[Trek420]

Ugh. I feel your pain.
We recently went through a spasm of renovation in our house.
Ugly wallpaper came down. Old carpet came up. Hardwood exposed.
It seems a bit louder in the house, and we can certainly hear the other when walking around, but ... sigh ... I so prefer the hardwood.
Here's a pic of the task half done.

Oooooh, puhrty. Keep posting those "after" pictures. It's heartening to see that it gets better.

[OakLeaf]

We put cork on our ground floor last year. It is totally beautiful! It's available in all kinds of colors and patterns. It insulates sound and temperature, it's resilient to the step, and it's relatively "green" in manufacture. It resists stains and dents - and hides what stains and dents it does get

It's still a floating floor, for those who hate that, but I'm way happy with it.

[wannaduacentury]

Since I'm giving my knee the day off, I helped Thom lay wood flooring in our bedroom. Get your minds out of the gutter. My job was to pick the piece of flooring to go in each spot. It was rough. Seriously, my feet are killing me! I had to stand barefoot for four hours on a cement slab. And we're not done! It's going to look so awesome though when it is complete. I can't wait to get rid of all the carpet. I had no idea how DISGUSTING carpet is, until he started pulling it up. Nasty, nasty stuff!

V.

We got some old wood flooring (nail down-early 1920's brick house) out of one of the old sorority houses the college owned, so we ripped (over 400 sq feet) up 2 heaping truckful loads in humid 95 degree July heat last summer. Dh and I are putting it in the living rm and our bedroom during Christmas break. I don't like carpet anymore either. It feels good betwwen your toes when it's new, then after the first spill, Oh well, there it goes. Jenn

[Veronica]

The bedroom is done and the furniture is moved back in. It really looks nice. Next room is the office...


V.

[Trek420]

That's great, V. Someday I hope to have a room, or two or....done.

Here's Mae supervising the preparation phase. She likes her creature comforts, carpets, rug, lawn. She did not like the bare floor at all. Here she has a cheap rug, one of her beds, L.L. Bean dog blankie so she can supervise in comfort.

[Trek420]

... taken at night with my cell phone, and the plastic protective sheet is still on the floor where it will stay till the rest is done. But this should give you an idea. It's a cherry laminate.

I plan to pick out the kitchen cabs on Wednesday.

[Veronica]

Currently working on the family room. It had to be painted first. The carpet is out and the painting nearly done. Thom still has to grind the cement slab to make the floor level before we can begin putting down the wood.

V.

[Trek420]

When I moved here I moved myself and Mae in my car. No truck. I don't have a lot of stuff.

Books, bikes of course, but I don't have a lot of "stuff".

There's a lot I lost in the "divorce", which is fine. I call that "chewing off my tail" But how is it that I was able to move here myself, a few loads in the car and now I'm clearing out just the living room and kitchen for the work, the spare bedroom is full, I mean full to my eyeballs with boxes.

I did not have "stuff", don't really buy "stuff", I've taken trunkloads to Goodwill such as clothes I've shrunk out of via cycling.

Does it multiply? Where does this "stuff" come from?

I'm off to slightly organize this as I imagine there's potential I'll be living out of these boxes for a while. I know how remodels go.

[Bruno28]

I did not have "stuff", don't really buy "stuff", I've taken trunkloads to Goodwill such as clothes I've shrunk out of via cycling.

Does it multiply? Where does this "stuff" come from?

Did you bring some stuff over to my place by any chance? I have extra stuff too that I don't recall acquiring

[Trek420]

Did you bring some stuff over to my place by any chance? I have extra stuff too that I don't recall acquiring

How could I have brought stuff to your place when I have more stuff than I thought Somebody else's stuff is going to both of our places.

Anybody missing a 12 bottle wrought iron wine rack? I have it and don't remember getting it and ... oh, it's cute with bike water bottles in it. never mind.

[Bruno28]

Somebody else's stuff is going to both of our places.

OK - own up. Who is it?????