October 17, 2011

I'm well aware that it is not October 17th yet but that's the day we can officially move into our house! The missing laptop charger has been recovered and now I can give the full progress update on the house! As of now, about 98% of the house is painted. That is, all areas that will be receiving new flooring are painted. However, I'm re-painting the master bedroom because the only paint color I was sure of turned out to be borderline hideous!!! I should have stuck with safe colors like beige or creamy colors. The color in my entry way and living room is supposed to be a light grey and it turns out to have a purple tint to it. We're hoping it's just a reflection of the cherry hardwood on the sheen of the paint. If not... I guess we'll wait and see. We painted our guestroom a lovely sand color so I decided to put that on one wall of the master bedroom. The other walls are a shade lighter on the color swatch.
Adam broke ground on installing the new laminate flooring yesterday in the hallway. He's made some stencils, practiced cutting, and pulled up all the carpet in the hallway. And surprise, surprise... Stains! In the sub-floor! The stains in the carpet were obvious but I was hoping we'd get lucky and they would stop in the carpet or pad. At the beginning of this project I started to form a serious anger toward the family who rented the house before we bought it because of how filthy they were. When you're nose to nose with their remnants for days at a time, it gets to you! Not to mention the urine smell! Apparently, I'm the only one who can still smell it. Yes, even through the paint I can still smell urine! Now we have to paint sealer over as many stains in the sub-floor as possible or the smells won't go away. Of course, I'm the only one whose worried about it because I will smell urine till be move out of the house!
I came to a point where I felt bad about being angry at the children for the messes because I reminded myself that it's not technically their fault. It's the parents that I'm angry with!! I also have to mention that we moved all the appliances out of the kitchen in order to put the new floor in and we found a load of crazy objects behind the oven. Lets see: Golf balls, toy vampire teeth, toy snakes, toy airplane, egg shells (and egg ooze down both sides of the oven), a spatula, and a fork. I also found a child's drawing and a mini 3 Musketeers bar on top of the refrigerator. After a nice dinner with one of our new neighbors (the ones who told us about the edible underwear) we learned that some of kids had some health issues and they were basically neglected by their two-timing, World of Warcraft playing, psycho mother. Poor kids :(
Enough about the renters! Our new neighbors have been very welcoming to us! Everyone's happy to have us and see activity going on at the house. They've offered to let us borrow ladders and work lights which have been so helpful! I mentioned before that we were invited to dinner which was pretty cool! The couple is pretty fun to hang out with but unfortunately they're moving. Hopefully some nice people will move in to that house.
So, October 17th is when the carpet will be put in and we can move in! We can't wait! It will be so nice to have the major things done and be able to relax a little! I will post pictures when we're done!