Posts tagged ‘master bedroom’

We always joke that each room renovation in the last 22 months has been done a little better than the last. Which means that once we’re done with everything, we’ll have to start over where we began. Because we learn as we go and our standards and knowledge change as we take on projects. Which [...]

After tomorrow afternoon, the weeklong blitz will be complete — though the work is far from over. This seven day period that started with our open-invite workday last Saturday was a bear. After that work “party”, we both worked one day at our day jobs this week and then spent the rest of the week [...]

Plaster is a mess. We’ve been racing to try and get our master bedroom done so we can move in as soon as we have the kitchen ready to go, making a nightmarish dusty mess in the process. Our current plan is to try and do everything that creates dust now while we’re not in [...]

Two nights, all wallpaper and paint removed on 2.5 walls out of 4 in the master bedroom. Up next, a lesson in sanding and skimming walls from our friend Chuck to get them ready to paint. We’ll hopefully have the walls in here ready to paint by the middle of next week, and then at [...]

Um, so maybe this post needs a new title. That just sounds wrong. After one night of 4 hours of stripping the paint and wallpaper in our bedroom, here’s the progress on the biggest wall in the room. The one that I thought was going to be the hardest — the plaster-on-brick party wall here [...]