House Guests

Thanks to everyone, human and otherwise who has come by to see the house and say hello.


Chowder, Cal's dog

Jack's response to Chowder

Tibby, makes himself at home.

Best buds

Chasing each other around the bathroom.

Final paint and scrubbing hardwoods

Ta-Da

Rockwood Red, rich chocolate brown.

Jack takes it for a test drive.

before and after scrubbing the floors.

Priming and Painting

After a lot of prep work, we're finally getting some paint on the walls- even if it is only primer.

The walls all prepped and ready for primer.

2nd round of patching, tape dots to help see all of them.

Before on the right and after primer on the left.

Scraping, washing, patching, sanding, priming, patching, sanding, priming and painting

The title says it all. So many little steps have gone into the upstairs. Scraping the wallpaper, then scraping off the wallpaper adhesive residue and then washing the walls. Thank heavens our plaster walls are in great shape, with mainly small hairline cracks. Patching the cracks is mostly just a lot of sanding. It took Molly, Dave and I a whole day to sand one room. Then we discovered power sanders and then Molly and I got another room finished in 2hrs! After that comes priming the walls, then filling in any remaining cracks, sanding those down and re-priming.