Top Left: looking into the kitchen from the living room. Top Right: looking at the living room from the front entrance way. Bottom: looking into the hallway to the bedrooms from the living room.
In the front bedroom we are calling the office: Eric is tearing out some old rotted sheet rock.
Our friend, Dave helps by cutting down some sheet rock.
It takes at least two to tango... I mean, put up sheet rock. What a mess!!
While the boys are working, I am also working. After scraping comes the spackling, woo-hoo! Even though there are no pictures to prove it, my friend Hope helped me on this too.
...and the sanding, my favorite part, mmm!
It got really dusty!! I needed wipers for my goggles.
So, will this be how I look when I'm 80 years old and all white haired? ...just with a "few" more wrinkles here and there.
Well, speaking of all that dust, it was getting difficult to breath easy at all. I had apparantly picked up the wrong kind of mask for our kind of work. Figuring there wasn't that much difference in masks, I'd just picked up the cheapest kind. Well, looking again at the store where the masks were and actually "reading the labels," I found the right mask for us to use. Wow, what a difference! Geez Di, read the instructions the first time for crying out loud!!
Well, speaking of all that dust, it was getting difficult to breath easy at all. I had apparantly picked up the wrong kind of mask for our kind of work. Figuring there wasn't that much difference in masks, I'd just picked up the cheapest kind. Well, looking again at the store where the masks were and actually "reading the labels," I found the right mask for us to use. Wow, what a difference! Geez Di, read the instructions the first time for crying out loud!!
Wrong mask! (just for mowing and gardening tasks)
Right Mask!! (for sanding, fiberglass, dry-wall, etc.)
This is a picture of our usable bathroom in the hallway.
This is more ceiling that needed to be spackled, sanded, primed, and painted. YEA! hehe.
We have two full baths, just one working.
Alison was a great help.
It was good to have mom and dad there to help. Mom tackled the vacuuming in the office, so it could be ready to paint. Dad happened to have an extra shop vac which was another great help.
Just look at that gleaming, wonderful carpet!! What was I thinking!
These were the lovely ceiling fans that had to be taken down to get for painting and other obvious reasons :).
Dad helped paint AND spackle which was much appreciated. I get to sand it later, YEA again!
This is in our living room/break room when our arms would stop working or go numb from the lack of blood flow.
This is the Master Bedroom. A place in this wall needed to be replaced because of rot. Mmm, rot, my favorite!
The Master has been sanded and primed. Dad puts the first coats of white paint on the ceiling.
Drying spackle on the dry-wall patch
Mom helps paint the wall's first coat in the master.
Smile!
Wow, our bedroom looks great!!
Mmm, how should we fix that window temporarily...
You can't see it, but the bottom pane was pusted out by...
...dad. Let's just say he was getting a little huffy because of all the work we were making him do. Just kidding! As he was losing his balance on the step stool, his fist went for the window which was open at the time in order not to mess up the paint on the freshly painted wall. He didn't get hurt at all thank goodness. We said, "don't worry we were thinking of replacing that anyway." Wait, didn't we say that about the ceiling too in the Master Bathroom when someone stepped through it accidentally?
PLYWOOD and Packing Tape!!!
The office with blue paint!! Sorry, I don't have any other angles.
Hope, Britt, and Garnett helped me with this room. Thanks guys!
More to come later...
