Flooring installed!

We finished installing the floor over the weekend! It's shaping up to be a nice cozy room and it's hard to imagine what it used to look like.

Next up: crown molding, baseboard trim and quarter round.

Progress on the home front

We're making some good progress on Jason's new office. We finished the ceiling and painted over the hideous yellow. Jason picked a manly shade of gray-beige-green called Knitting Needles. I went to Sherwin Williams to get the paint where I'm known as the lady who gets the Harmony paint (their no-VOC line). How sad is it that the local paint store knows us because we're in there so often? We -- well, mainly I -- really need to break my painting addiction! Um, but not before I re-paint the living room. I'm a bit sick of the color we've had for 2 years, I found the PERFECT gray-beige color and SW is having a 20% off sale this weekend. :)


We got the laminate floor at Lumber Liquidators. We had a fairly small selection to choose from since we're installing it over concrete so we ended up with Dream Home Nirvana in mohagony. The floor is fairly quick to put down, once you figure out the first couple rows. We finished half the 10' x 10' room in a couple hours. Not too bad for our first time.

House projects

House projects never end. We have 3 unfinished projects and we're starting a 4th.


We're turning this hideous dance room into Jason's office.

The room had a tile ceiling that was falling down, old records glued to the walls and ceiling and 3 huge mirrors along one wall. Oh yes, and the light cover was made out of a colander and beads.

We hung drywall on the ceiling yesterday. Up this week: finish mudding/taping and paint so we can put down the new flooring on Saturday.