Thank goodness for Chad and Giovanna, who came on Friday night and absolutely busted their butts helping us at the house, and Allison, who surprised us with pizza and sweets before we put her to work (we taught her to paint!) this afternoon. Honestly, I don't know what we would have done without them this weekend.
We're calling the window in the dining room the Chad and Giovanna Commemorative Window. There should be a plaque. After all the paint that was scraped off and all the priming, I'm hoping the two of them aren't having nightmares.
At one point today, the bathroom door became unhinged. "Oh, man," I said to Rich. "We bought the 'Money Pit.' "
In the end, we got the majority of the trim painted, and we each made a trip to Home Depot (in an homage to my dads). And our kitchen underwent a transformation.
Before:
After:
Yes, that table was actually rigged into the wall out of some boards and random cabinet pieces. We'd been afraid to take it down in case it was covering some ugly or destroyed wall,
but it turns out -- after poor Rich dropped the "table" on his head -- that the wall was in good shape. I trashed the boards and we stashed the cabinet under the basement steps, and suddenly, I've got a nice, big kitchen.The chandelier in the kitchen is also somewhere in the basement, where our friend Phil unfortunately had to spend some time this weekend in preparation for taking out the radiator in our bedroom. (The entire house is baseboard heat, except for that room. Bizarre.) Rich took it down with the help of Ricca during a telephone consultation -- really, he should charge for this kind of thing; he's darn good -- and he graciously also walked Rich through detaching the fans from the ceilings so we could paint.
If I ever see another paintbrush again, I'll vomit. Looking forward to that this week. Yet another thing (besides movers) we'll never, ever do again on our own. We haven't even touched the upstairs yet.
LOOK AT ALL THIS SPACE!
Oh my goodness! What a transformation !!! Looks like a totally different house. FABULOUS. I absolutely love (LOVE!) it. What a beautiful home you are creating. It's a "WOW." I could not be more happy for you. (You have great friends.)
ReplyDeleteyay! everything looks awesome! so glad we could help, and we were rewarded with a fabulous meal afterward! that was so much fun! (and i learned how to prime.)
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