October 1, 2005
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Sooo. Spent yesterday morning with the builder and electrician going over light and outlet placements. Had to realize that the light I fell in love with would not fit well over the staircase. I uttered a few choice words over that one. The options are select a different light in the same line, or involve a modification to the ceiling to created a trayed ceiling in that area. Yeah. So I'm looking at a smaller light in that same style. It'll look great and I know it'll serve that location much better.
Next week the storeroom and hidey-hole room will be insulated. Hidey-hole room. Yep, that's exactly what hubby and the girls are calling it. It's a little space that we'll have an access to that will be perfect for hiding a few things well out of sight or even hiding from house intruders. It won't be an official "panic room" kinda thing, but it would be great for playing hide-and-seek. Anyway, those areas will be insulated and the walls and ceiling finished. We need the storage spaces to start moving stuff outta the way to get to our winter things. Well, after I get the rooms painted, that is.
The electrician will start his work next week. He estimates it'll take him about two weeks to get everything in. Then the insulation and drywall will go in. Whoo hoo! I'm really getting antsy to see this project get finished, even though I know it's projected to take another 2-3 months.
But as things are getting done, I can start working on the older rooms, which need some attention. Right now the bedrooms are filled with items from the storeroom and other rooms we had to clear. Once we can sort through things and move them into the storeroom, I can start tackling tasks such as washing down the walls, repainting walls and ceilings, shampooing carpets, and getting the bedrooms all redone for the girls. Monkey boy's room will be the same, but of course it'll need a good thorough cleaning..as will the living room and sunroom.
We're going to have to do a bit more to the dining room than we'd anticipated. We knew some of the ceiling would be affected....but there's a bit more than we thought. And in order to have sufficient plumbing and a/c runs, there'll be a small corner taken in there for that to reside. That means there'll be another small area of the room that won't have the textured wallpaper that's been long discontinued and can't be found anywhere. *sigh* I'm preparing myself for having to re-do all the walls in that room, as much as I really don't wanna do that. Hopefully they can transition to the old walls and preserve the wallpaper. Yes, I know I could just re-do the entire room in a new paper, but ~hello~ I don't do wallpaper installation well at all! Give me a paintbrush and I'm on the job, but wallpaper is something I just can't get. Borders I can do...that's easy....full walls, no way.
Speaking of walls and wallpaper.....I knew the hallway in this house has wallpaper underneath the paint. The walls are old plaster and obviously not smooth and even...but hey, to me that lends character to a 100+ year old home. However, I've now discovered that someone (I can guess which family, lived here about 15 years ago) apparently peeled the wallpaper facing off, left the paper backing on the walls, and proceeded to paint over the backing. And when the wallpaper was applied to one section of the walls (don't know about the other walls just yet), there was no primer used on the plaster first. So can you guess what's happening? Yep, after so many years the wallpaper backing is starting to separate from the plaster.......and flaw my children are so very skilled at finding and picking at. So I'm gradually working on that walls, trying to get all the paper crap off the wall so I can prime and repaint. I really need to get motivated and keep after that project.
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