Inordinately BUSY.

[chochiyo_sama]

I have been busy working like a fiend all week.  Monday I have to return to school--ARG

I love my job, and I've missed my kids, but I am JUST NOT READY for summer to be over!!!

This past week has been crazy!  I've been working on my bedroom most of the time.  I am finally to the final huzzah of it all.  Yesterday I cleared all the barbies off the shelves, vaccuumed the dust and cat hair off of them with my cool new handvac's small brush attachment, and photographed MOST of them (I have two shelves of them left to photograph) for an inventory.  I have never inventoried the whole collection before--and since it is HUGE, I think now is a good time to do it--before it gets any bigger.

The kitchen floor is almost done and it looks GOOD.  What a difference wallpaper and the new tile on the floor have made in there!!  Now, I have to figure some way of painting the woodwork so it doesn't look horrible. 

Then--it's the Living Room/Dining Room that needs attention.  I want to wallpaper OVER the old disgustingly ugly wallpaper in the dining room.  I do NOT want to go through the hassle of steaming it off the walls.  I know papering over it would be a lot simpler.  There is only one layer.  I'd like to do the living room in the same paper.  That is not papered at this time--so it will have to be painted with sizing first.  Bleah.

There are so many windows and doors in each room that it shouldn't take much paper.  There isn't a single wall in either room that is a completely solid wall.  If I can pick a pattern that requires no matching of little repeated motifs, it should be fairly cheap.  I need to google discount wall paper and see what I can come up with.

THEN--I want to rip up the  hideous olive green carpet in the living room/dining room and shine up the hardwood floor beneath.  I am NOT going to refinish the whole thing.  Too much work.  I'll just make it look nice as it is, then buy two nice size area rugs--like the one in my bedroom--only bigger.

My sister Tammy is getting ready to sell her house.  They are building a house, and it will be an annoyance if their house doesn't sell--but it won't really matter to them much.  They have enough money to maintain both.  I'm sure someone will buy their current house.  Tammy is getting rid of a lot of stuff, including the couch and love seat from her "formal" living room.  It isn't what I would choose for myself--it's a creamy white with blue stripes--but she has offered it to me, and it is free.  She and Burt only buy the best quality, so it is far nicer, even second hand, than anything I could afford to buy.  While I don't think I'd go to the expense of recovering it (might as well just buy a new one then), I can always get a couple of throws to toss over them.  White and blue stripes are rather stark and institutional, in my opinion.  I prefer more earthy tones--but, free IS free. 

And if I ever sell this money pit, I can always put these in the basement when I can afford to buy something I like better for my living room. 

Comments

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Sounds great. That's what we did with our wood floors, by the way. We can't afford to have them refinished, and I know it'll have some repair work added in. Even so, it looked better than the cheap crap carpet that was installed when we moved in and stained if you looked at it.

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[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

The person who owned our house before us had a boarder fetish. There is a boarder in every single room. When we try to steam it off, or scrape it off, we mess up the stupid popcorn ceilings... home improvement is so much fun lol!

Good luck with school starting