Posts tagged ‘painting’

It’s awesome to have a fireplace in your living room, right? Cozy fires in the winter and saving money on gas bills by building a sweet fire to warm the house. Ah, that’s the life! A very distant second place is having a fake fireplace. (More like a second place finisher that’s still in the [...]

Here are the pictures I promised from the second bedroom project. Here’s the biggest wall in the room, from the scraping to the skimming to the priming. All that’s left to do on this wall now is adding the receptacle in the baseboard, the new baseboards and trim, and paint. We still haven’t chosen the [...]

We’ve made a lot of progress on the front of the house in the last few months, though we haven’t done much for the last 2 weeks. We’ve been a bit preoccupied watching every U.S. match during the Women’s World Cup, celebrating our 7th anniversary last weekend in Western Maryland and catching up on Harry [...]

Phase one on the front of the house is basically finished. Here’s the front yard 16 days ago and then today. What a difference! As you can see, the garden is well on its way and the lattice and joist have been repainted in our new grey trim we’ll be using elsewhere on the front [...]

Half-stripped steps, originally uploaded by whiteknuckled. The steps are coming right along. I discovered that the Behr Concrete Stripper (no. 992 if you’re curious) works infinitely better than standard paint strippers of almost any stripe, which is a big relief, because I don’t think my hands could’ve taken much more tedious hard scraping with the crap [...]

For some reason we still can’t figure out, someone had installed a ceiling fan in our entryway. There’s not one in the living or dining room downstairs, but there was one in the entryway. The only real use I could think of was that it helped circulate air to the upstairs if you run it [...]

Rachel and I have both wanted a red door on the house we’d own one day. Our family, for some reason that will probably get explained in the comments, has always had red front doors on our houses. Atlanta, Columbia, Thomson (I think) all had red doors. Maybe it was because we were Jewish and [...]

The pantry has been enclosed and drywalled, with our lucky find pocket door installed. It works like a charm. The trim will go in soon when the cabinets go in next Monday and things start getting finished. We had only primed it and painted one side before they installed it, but fortunately there was enough [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]