At one point, we thought we were done with the living room.  After painting the floor trim, we are not so sure anymore.  I don’t think anybody, including ourselves, really like the ugly brown / orange that the color ended up being.  We’re going to wait a little to see what it looks like with the floor boards, but I don’t think we’re going to paint the dining room floor boards the same color.

We already painted the ceiling and put the first coat on the walls in the dining room.  We’re going to be putting the second coat of paint on the walls today, and then finish the room up by painting all the trim in the room white.  After that, we just need to wire the living room and dining room.  That’s not counting flooring of course.

I stopped at Home Depot two days ago, and passed by some laminate flooring that was what Kristin and I liked on sale.  Was only $.97 / sq foot.  Stopped at home and picked up Kristin so that she could check it out.  We ended up buying enough laminate to cover the living room and dining room floor.  We’re going to have to work on the floors a bit to level them out before we can lay it down though.

The moving in is finished and everything has been moved over to the house.  Funny part was that when we moved the couch in the apartment, there was this little circle under it where the cats always laid down.  Anyways, the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen have everything moved into it.  If it is not related to those rooms, then it is currently in the basement waiting for the room to be finished.

We’ve painted the living room ceiling and the walls.  We ended up having to put two coats of paint on the living room walls to get it looking nice.  The walls really do look great now.  I think today Kristin is planning on taping the walls so that I can finish up by painting the trim in the living room.  We’re  not going to do the window trim until the new windows are in.  I also found this really awesome remote switch for the fan.  Currently, the switch for the fan / lights is located inbetween the two windows (which is just hard to get to especially since the TV was going to be there.  The remote goes in a standard box and then there is a second piece that gets connected between the wiring in the fan.  This allows us to put a box in next to the door, with a switch that works, without need to rewire the power to the fan which would be very difficult to do.  I haven’t installed it yet, but am planning on doing it later this week.

For the dining room, George has boxed in the HVAC duct that was next to the fireplace and made it flush with the fireplace.  It now blends in nicely.  He is planning on doing the second coat of joint compound today so that tonight we will be able to primer the walls.  I have already primered the ceiling last night.  While I was taping the chandilier, a wire was loose and disconnected the light.  We ended up just removing the chandilier right now until we’re finished.  Once the room is all painted, we’ll put it (or a different one) back up.

Almost forgot to write about the living room.  We’ve already primed the living room and have painted the ceiling last night.  We should be able to get started on the walls before next week.  We have another color sheet that I uploaded that have the colors we’re painting the living room, dining room, and hallway with.  The one change that is not on the sheet is with the window trim.  We’ve decided to paint the trim around the windows the same color white as the ceiling, but with Eggshell.

Found the camera cable today and managed to get the few pictures Kristin took with the camear.  My Mom also posted her pictures so I added those also.  I created a new album under the 2639 Bremont album for the remodeling pictures.  Where moving the bedroom, bathroom, and misc stuff today and then the rest tomorrow.  I’ll be taking more pictures of what has been done with the house today and post them tonight or sometime this weekend.

The block windows were installed yesterday and they really make a huge difference inside and out.  They just look so much nicer from the outside of the house.  The installation of the windows probably took about 6 hours.  The windows look great from the inside also, and you can already tell a temperature change with the windows.  That’s mostly because the old windows were single pain cracked windows where you could feel the draft coming through.

The carpet in the master bedroom was also done yesterday and the color Kristin picked out really goes very well with the room.  We’re both really excited because things are coming along so nicely.  Only thing left in the bedroom is vacuum, screw in the closet bars, and then connect the closet light up in the attic.  Nothing that will take long at all.

I also started working in the basement cleaning it out.  I removed all the wood that was screwed into the walls that were there just to hold coats, tools, etc.  I also cleaned out the little workroom downstairs and tore out the drywall ceiling.  It really needed to be tore out and I need to waterproof the ceiling better.  The workroom is actually under the back porch so you can see where a little water came through in the past.  We’ve decided to make that little room the server / networking room for me.  I’m planning on washing the floor down there today / tomorrow so that when we move all the living room / dining room / office stuff down there, it won’t get too dirty.  We’ll start moving the stuff out of the basement once each room gets done.

Plans for the rest of this week are mostly moving.  We’re going to be spending Friday and Saturday moving out of our apartment and into the house.  The lease is up on the 21st for the apartment, but the power is being shut off on the 20th.  Friday we will be moving mostly bathroom / bedroom stuff into the house and then Saturday will be spent moving everything else.   I think Sunday will be spent painting the ceiling in the living room and working on the workroom downstairs since the server will be ready to be in there.

We’ve taken pictures that we hopefully will be posting this weekend.  The camera cable was packed away and was one of the first thing packed away.  The problem being that it’s the box hardest to get to and we would need to move everything else out of the way.  Just going to grab it when we move.