Happy Monday everyone! Did you partake in that nincompoopery we chatted about Friday? I hope so! Remember when I went into the weekend with such hope?
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Not to say we didn't get anything done. We did. But I had these grand ideas on Thursday night that we would easily have our living room in some kind of working order by last night.
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I got trim painting done on the garage and slider doors as well as living room baseboards. Man you don't realize how much baseboards get beat up until you think you're just going to slap a quick coat of paint on them.
No you're not. That'll be three coats please. We got the armoire nook pretty much back in line so I thought "oh we're close!" Nope.
It was time to reattach the patio trim. That was a bit of a pucker butt moment for the Mr when he realized our patio door was going to be sunken back by 5/8" with the new drywall around it. I did a quick search and saw they had 5/8" white PVC trim and it would bring the area level to the drywall again. It looks better than what it did when paid people did it.
Of course 5/8" is never right on spec so we had to do some shimming for the trim to lay flat against the wall.
And this, my friends, is why I always say your house is built with shims and lies. Then it was time to slap some more paint on it because of course none of it was all the same color. But I must say, it looks better than it ever has so that was good. The Mr did a lot of trim work, and because stairwells are a bitch, some touch ups. Even a good edger doesn't mean there won't be some oopsies when you're dealing with two different colors on the walls and ceilings. (I'm starting to get the whole people paint their ceilings the same color as the walls trend.)
We got the dining light hung back up which was a nice curse word generator for the day but it is nice to have more light in there because light is definitely lacking in there.
There was a lot of caulking involved which is both satisfying and irritating. Then you have to let paint and caulk dry. Lots of puttying. We rehung the garage door trim which was a little poop fest. The left side trim no long fit so the Mr had to jig saw it in half which went well but also left me with quite the gap to fill.
It's the only solution we have for that corner especially since original drywaller left us with such a raggedy corner.
After I caulked that and was waiting for it to dry, I went to grab the acoustic panels for the back of the armoire which was the final step before being able to move it back to it's home. The Mr and I looked everywhere for them. We both know very well they could only be in a few places but we both tore the house apart up and down. Oops, we think he did it again. Oh, did I not tell you the drywall guy stole from us? A 5 gallon bucket that we KNOW was there before they started because the Mr had just used it the day before , went to use it and nowhere to be found. Also a $25 HUGE box of cut to length drop cloths that we still needed. They too were there the day before they arrived and too huge to misplace and then suddenly poof and he and his one crew were the only people who had been there. In 4 weeks we have never come across either of them so we know we didn't misplace them. Now suddenly when we need these acoustic panels and knew we would've only put them in a few spots, they're gone. I don't like to accuse people of stealing and I don't know what the heck he would've done with them but pretty odd those were delivered the day he started work and he was the only one here for 10 days. I will fully cop to it should we run across them but we've looked everywhere and we're not in the habit of chucking a full Amazon bag. So I had to spend another $50 for these damn things and we're both just irritated by this time. I'm even more irritated because I know that not only is the living room not getting back together over the weekend but even something that seemed like an easy thing like moving the armoire back wasn't happening either.
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How was your weekend? Anything good, bad or indifferent?
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Well it's true. I really thought that we had the time we needed to get the living room back in order but that detail work takes time and it is better not trying to rush it. The bucket that the drywall guy took was cheap but I know that it had another bucket inside of it and more stuff inside that. So to take it meant that he had to first separate the two buckets with fairly heavy stuff inside of it. That speaks to intent for me. It's one thing when you mistake a similar one for one that you also have but when you purposely remove another item full of stuff and just take the other item then you know what you are doing. I hate to think what else might be missing that we haven't even realized yet. Ugh!
ReplyDeleteYou got quite a bit accomplished, although I understand the disappointment when you thought you'd be further along and all those little things take far more time than what it seems like they will. Ack!
ReplyDeleteWeekend was okay here. Lots of running around, temps in the 80s Friday to a winter wonderland this morning when I opened the drapes in the bedroom. Freeze warnings through tomorrow morning. La Cross, WI was in the 80s on Friday and had 8 inches of snow yesterday. And to think, some kids had prom over the weekend....Sheesh.
Sounds like you are getting close to done. I'm often amazed at how much longer my projects take then I anticipate. When you are finished you will pretty much have a totally refinished house! Weekend weather was beautiful until Sunday chill which shocked my spring flowers. I finally replaced an outlet which was out for 4 months and I had had extension cords everywhere. I never realized the actual outlet could go bad and was afraid I had an electrical problem. Weeded 1 flowers bed and got the pond pump running. Made the hello fresh meals which were yummy.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week!