Weekend 1: summary

We worked all weekend on the house. One weekend down... several thousand more to go!

Starting on Friday we made our first trip to Menards- one of many! With the help of our friend Sean, we cleaned the ceiling fans- so disgusting, dusted all the base boards and sills and began painting all of the base boards and window frames a nice white. The old color was a brownish-reddish-mauvish color that made the room really dark.

Later in the evening Nick got off of work and the parents showed up to help us. Both my mom and Nick's mom scrubbed the kitchen and the rest of the downstairs until it began to sparkle! Nick and his dad worked on getting all the old smoke alarms collected so we could install all brand new ones. I had my brothers dust all of the upstairs- a project that won't start for a while. My mom also brought by a wonderful housewarming gift: a brand new Oreck vacuum! I took a much needed break and bought everyone pizza. Everyone was working so hard! We continued our work, I learned to spackle and we called it a night around 10 p.m.

Saturday started early, at 8 a.m. and didn't end until 10:30 at night. We made our second trip to Menards (followed later by a third trip for more paint). We finished painting all the baseboards and doors in the living room, began the baseboards and railings in the entry way and the wainscoting in the dining room. My type-A perfectionism came into play as I tried to get every crack in the wainscoting coverd with the paint! It was driving me crazy! While I was hemming and hawing over my paint job, my mom helped paint the living room walls, which look amazing! I finished out the day by painting an accent wall in the living room and sadly ran out of paint before it was finished. I tried to use every last drop, but to no avail, we would need more paint. Nick worked on installing all the new smoke detectos and carbon monoxide detectors. My brother Dylan came to help as well and Nick and Dylan worked on washing all the screens for the windows, painting the heat grates and laying down grass seed in the yard.

Sunday was Easter so we didn't start until after our family get together. We made our fourth trip to Menards to get more paint! I underestimated how much paint we would use! Nick did a second coat on the accent wall and I started painting our dining room lime green. It sounds scary but looks really great! The dining room should be finished sometime this week!


Weekend 1 Recap:
4 trips to Menards
7 gallons of paint bought
4 pizzas eaten
1 room completed (living room)
I still have paint in my hair