Sometimes You Just Gotta Call a Professional

Hi y'all! Hoppy Easter! Here's a look back on the week in Camelot.

Last Sunday we went to the house to paint. I managed to take down the wallpaper border in the laundry room. It was a hideous print of birds. OMG, seriously? I don't get how some people think. This paper was so ugly it was fugly. But, to each their own I guess, and for me that stuff had to GO! Dave spent his time painting the master bedroom ceiling and the ceiling in the kitchen....

Work that led to the realization that we cannot possibly paint this entire house before we move in and still have our sanity (and possibly marriage) in tact. We have a good friend who owns a painting business and we decided to call him and get a bid on painting the house. Realistically, Dave is out of town for the next 2 weeks (zoinks!), and our weekends are quite busy the next few weeks too. This leaves little/no time for painting, which would mean we would probably be left to paint once we get moved into the house, meaning that an already arduous task would be made that more difficult. Yes, it's time to call back up.

Monte came out this week to look at the house and gave us his bid. And the bid came in reasonably, so we're going for it. The painters start tomorrow, the 9th, so we spent a good amount of our time yesterday finishing selecting paint for 6 more rooms of the house. Luckily this was relatively easy and WWIII didn't break out. We are GO for paint!

John's crew came over and cleaned up, which included removing the visqueen from the flooring in the kitchen/dining/family rooms. They also removed all the rest of the carpet in the house, in preparation for the new stuff, which should be installed after the painting is done. Dave and John selected the tile for the master shower, and I believe that'll be started this coming week. Lastly, I believe work on the parquet floors will start next week, with the sanding.

Unfortunately we've got some unknowns with the parquet right now. Since there were 2 'water events' (The first being when they hit the water line during initial demo, damaging tile in the kitchen, the second being the damage in the dining room from the drywall guys last week), there will be portions of the floor that will have to be fixed. I'm not really sure what all this will entail, but am cautiously optimistic that it will be an easy fix, but I have no idea. Bottom line is that I don't want to lose the parquet- so hopefully they can fix the broken parts and make it look great.

While not much happened with the house last week, this coming week should bring forth a good amount of perceptible changes, mainly in the form of paint. Doesn't everything always look better with new paint? Stay tuned!