Bathroom work!

Not a lot has gone on in the bathroom since the carpet came up. Pretty much we took out the toilet and sink.


And I put a coat of that Tough-as-tile tub refinishing epoxy paint on the bathtub to make it white :)


I was going to also use this on the blue tile to make the bathroom completely black and white. That would have been nice, but it would have made a huge blob of white since I would have had to do it over the grout and the the grout between the black would have looked like crap. Since the tiles were in really good condition, especially after cleaning it with TSP, I have decided to keep them. So now the bathroom is going to be black, blue and white. Not exactly optimal, but that way I don't waste money on things that aren't going to look that great in the end... If I still want to change it in the future, I can just retile the bathroom.

Kitchen work

So, last we left the kitchen, it had the cabinet doors off and the carpet up. Things have been moving along pretty well.

I primed the tile with Gripper primer by Glidden after cleaning it with TSP, and Momma and I primed the cabinets (the doors still need primed), Momma painted the walls in Day Spa by behr.



Then I painted the tile with High gloss white paint. It made the blue of the walls stand out more. It is looking cleaner in this room every day. Hopefully I'll have the cabinets painted and the floors down this weekend!

Refinished the floors

Been doing a lot of work at the house lately. Here are some updates.

We refinished the floors! It was harder than we thought, took 3 days and was around $300. It turned out really nice though.

Momma dancing with the sander. It was not a cooperative partner and gave her blisters on her thumbs from having to manhandle it. The little sandy disks that you velcro to the bottom of this thing cost a ton! About $9/set. It takes about 4 sets a room. Instead of throwing them away, I sat there with a screwdriver and picked off the shellac warts that were gumming up the disks and we reused them. My fingers were raw for a few days...


All the nicely sanded floors. We should have sanded them more because those few spots where there was still shellac on the floor kind of show up as oranger spots. They aren't bad, but it would have been nicer to not have them. Oh well, I know for next time!




I decided to just go with Polyurethane and no stain. I used Minwax high build semi-gloss. Here's the first coat!



A day after we put on the first coat, we went along with the palm sander and 220 grit sandpaper to even it out. Unfortunately some spots weren't dry enough and they kind of gummed up. I used some mineral spirits to thin it a bit and left it dry for another day. The next day I went ahead and sanded them down by hand and put on the second coat. And Momma painted the border too :)

Pictures finally!

Lets start with the living room since that was where we started.
Painted the ceiling.

Painted the walls


Ripped up the carpet (this was before I cleaned up the mess)


Kitchen
Put a lot of crap in it

Took off the cabinet doors and ripped off the carpet


My bedroom
Momma painted the ceiling while Pappy visited

Painted the walls. This color looked better at my parent's house... It'll probably look better once I get my paintings on the walls and paint the trim.

Ripped out the carpet. My hardwood floors look really good, but I need to sand and put on some coats of poly.


Other bedroom
Painted the same color as the living room and hallway, and ripped out the carpet.

Whew what a day

I once again forgot to bring my camera home. I'll remember tomorrow.

Today we got a ton done.

The bedrooms, hallway, and living room were painted with their second coat (Thanks mom!). I need to trim the bedrooms in white and the hallway and living room in that other green.

We ripped up the carpet in the living room, the second bedroom, bathroom, hallway, and kitchen. The floor underneath is a really nice color, but needs to be refinished =/ It has these strange little dots on it. I'm not sure what it was from, but it looks like all the rooms need it.

The bathroom had mold, which was not a surprise. It wasn't too terrible, and there was linoleum underneath, so I don't have to replace any flooring, just put the new floating floor on top.

The carpet in the kitchen was amazingly hard to rip up. It was glued to the floor. Without Phil, it would still be there.

I ordered my countertop and bought the kitchen floor today. It is going to be Wilsonart laminate Lodestone which matches the Allure Yukon tank flooring I picked out really well :) (moreso than the images below, the darker floor tiles match the countertop almost exactly)

Countertop:


Kitchen flooring:


Now that the carpet is mostly up, I feel like I can get some serious work done. I can't wait to start on the kitchen. That is going to be one of the big changes.