Those floors I despise...almost complete

This is what our house looked like at 1:30 in the morning when we finished up the floor Monday night.Yes FHE was spent doing this. We got all the rest of the glue up off the floor to stain it.

The next morning we laid the stain down. It smells like dying Easter eggs. Those little tablets get dropped in the water and they fizz up and stain the tips of your fingers. This stuff bubbled up and stained EVERYTHING and it smelled just like that times 50.

Then you seal it! And completion! Now our house reeks of toxic fumes...I preferred the Easter eggs. But the floor is beautiful.

My man can make anything

To save money...but not time, Rod made our base for the downstairs and the hardwood floors for the master bedroom.

Spray, spray, spray, stain, stain stain, seal, seal, seal...

Distress, distress, distress...Rod made those "wormholes" very clever.

That is a lot of wood...and it rained last night...and we had to move it all while it poured.

The hands of a working man. LOVE.

Glaze on...Glaze off

These are our colors plus glaze and here is the magical transformation that makes our painted walls absolutely fabulous!

Our red wall is a lot more elegant.

No more minty kitchen!

Ta-da!

This is a very messy job but it turned out beautiful. We scrubbed and scrubbed our hands to no avail. The kids at worked freaked "What is on your hands!" And even days later the boys told me, "Tell Rod to wash his hands, that is disgusting"...I never knew teenage boys were that interested in hygiene...but I have been wrong before.

It keeps going and going

I keep trying to get caught up with what we have already done, but more just keeps happening and I can't seem to get there.

Rod bull-nosed all the corners. It was one of the quicker parts of the remodel that will make a great difference.

Then we painted. I think our colors are awesome. I wanted a green kitchen so we picked Great Green over Leap Frog and this is what happened...Double you pleasure, Double your fun, that's the statement of the great mint in Doublemint Gum!

Our wall color is Basketweave...no way to go wrong there.

Positive Red is positively red. This is our "accent" wall in our room. It looks like more of a major "statement" wall.

Then we our plastic everywhere to paint the ceiling. This picture looks like it was taken on another planet. That is our baby shop-vac in the foreground of the picture.

And by the way. Don't think that we are completely lost...glaze is coming to improve the wall color choices. It WILL make sense...

O the floor...how I despise you.

The bane of my existence is the floor. I wanted stained cement floors. The linoleum was just a little harder to get up then anticipated.
Rod first bought me toy number one. A large long-handled floor scraper. It got us to the point:

Then he bought me this one...I love that man.

Our 70's mirror wall

It was destroyed.
I think Rod had a good time...I vacuumed all the asbestos popcorn ceiling texture off the floor. What a way to spend the day, but we are making progress.

Step One: Popcorn Anyone?

We are starting the remodel in the downstairs part of the house. It needed the most help and is where we were going to settle.

Here are a couple pictures of the BEFORE

Don't you love the yellow counter top and linoleum floors?

We began our "little" project by removing the popcorn ceilings...it was awful. You could touch it and it would flake everywhere. So Rod and I sported the respirators and scraped the ceiling in the kitchen, living room, hall, and master bedroom...for 8 hours...it felt like a lifetime...a really crappy one.

But it got finished.

So we bought a house and we tore it apart to put it back together again.

But here is the outside...it is not much...just a brown box where someone got the bright idea to paint the brick, but we will change all that.



The backyard is why we fell in love with the house. This is our porch. We love it.
And our view. We have an awesome view. We are so grateful!

Don't you love our wagon?! It is our only landscaping at this point.

Can you see the Saint George Temple? You can see it so well when it is lit up at night.