Renovation

So let me bring you up to date on the "progress" we have been making on our dining room! Yes, this one little room has been taking up ALL our time since we started working on the house on December 2. Everyday that we have been at the house working, a portion of our time has been spent getting this dining room ready!

So a recap:
- First it started with horrible wallpaper. It was ugly and a pain in the ass to remove! This was super think not coming off the damn wall ever wallpaper!

- So we went to the store and got a steamer to quicken the progress. (Once again - steamers are sent down from God by the angels, they are wonderful!)

- By day 2 all the wallpaper in the dining room was removed! Emotional feelings at this point - VERY HAPPY!!!

- T. then spent a couple days sanding the walls by hand and wipping them off with tact cloth (a cloth with glue on it to help remove the dust off the walls from the sanding). The main reason it took so long to sand was b/c the wallpaper took off parts of the paint that was on the wall leaving parts with paint and parts with drywall. It looked horrible so T. worked VERY hard to smooth this down before we painted. Emotional feeling - tired, ready to get the room done and move on to another room.

- We primed the walls with the best primer Sherwin Williams sells. It is a grey primer and it is used to help hide any problems in the wall. We were hoping that this primer would hide all the raised areas on the wall.......it didn't work. Emotional feelings - discouraged, upset, TIRED!

- So we went to Sherwin Williams and they told us that what we need to do is use all purpose joint compound (the mud product you use to repair holes in walls) over all the walls. Yes ALL the walls! *sigh*

- So we bought joint compound (mud) ....thank goodness it isn't expensive....and proceeded to mud the entire dining room. This my friends took a few days to finish. We had to put two layers on (letting it dry 24 hours in between each layer) and it just was a long, not hard, but long process to apply.

- T. then had to re-sand all the walls and tact cloth the walls again to remove the dust.

- Then last night we finally put the primer on again and I have to say it worked! YAY! We were so excited as we started painting on the primer to see that it was actually working! It is SO smooth with the exception of a few parts that could be smoother - but we don't care! It looks really good!

- So tonight is the first coat of paint (hopefully we only need two coats) and then the dining room is basically done.....well stage one is done! (the rest will come later)


Because this took alot longer to complete then what we originally thought and this place is in good shape overall the halls and kitchen will be done after the first of the year. We want to focus on moving in this week and we can finish these later. The biggest painting projects are just about done, and that is all that matters!!! We just wanted to get the main (harder) rooms with the most furniture and traffic finished before we moved in - and that will be complete wednesday! YAY!