It’s taken a while, but at long last, here’s a few photos of the floors being installed.
After Day One of the Installation, the upstairs hallway, the front bedrooms, and half of the master bedroom had floors. Here’s the sight that greeted me in the living room. Power tools, nails and wood scraps were scattered everywhere.
Here’s the reverse perspective from the dining room.
All of the upstairs carpets had already been removed, ditto for the stairs. But as you start to go up, the flooring in the upstairs hallway becomes visible. I’m probably biased, but I think it looks considerably nicer than the carpets. (The best comment on this photo comes from Mike whose first reaction was, “Nice airhose.”)
The two front bedrooms had their floors entirely installed on Day 1, all that remained was some molding along the baseboards and the closets. (All of the closets were put off until Day 2.) It’s a trick of the lighting that makes these two rooms appear to be different color with different flooring material. Both rooms were painted a week before the installation started and the floors are red oak (though there is an occasional piece of white oak mixed in).
The flooring in the master bedroom looked great too…
…but it wasn’t quite ready for me to put a bed in there.
(To be continued!)
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Making Progress Again
I’ve reached a point in the renovation project where I’m tired of the entire thing. Consequently, although I’ve unpacked a few things (I now have a sofa along with the computer, desk and chair), I’ve been finding a number of excuses to put off the rest of painting. About all I’ve accomplished along those lines the past couple weeks is the prep work for the master bedroom.
That’s changed. Today I made a point of finishing the prep work for the bedroom and it is now officially painted. For Sunday, I hope to get the upstairs hallway painted. Then all that will remain is painting half the kitchen and getting things out of the basement again. (And there’s a bit of deadline too, Shore Leave is in two weeks and I’d like to have the project done before then.)
The only catch is, my bedroom now smells like paint. What’s worse though is that the drop cloth was blocking the air vent. Consequently, it’s also about 20 degrees warmer than the rest of the house. So tonight I’m going to sleep on the sofa. Happily, it’s not just a sofa, it a very comfy sofa!
Have Paint Brush, No Time to Travel
After about three weeks of prep work and two days of washing walls and emptying closets, I’ve officially started painting. There’s blue tape everywhere!!!! (Look for photos in a week or so.) This evening I got two-thirds of the living room painted. With luck those walls will dry before any dogs or parrots make contact with them.
The floors are scheduled to be installed later this week and I already have this unfortunate mental image of Wylie sliding across the living room and putting his head through the drywall…