Thursday, June 7, 2012

Floors and More!

I've lost count of the days, but here are some highlights from last week!

Floors are in progress!  The guest room was added on at a later time- half of the closet is concrete from the garage. This meant building up the floor with glue before the wood floor could be laid.

Oops!  Looks like Genna got curious!

almost ready!

While we were waiting on floors to be finished, Russell worked diligently to "bug proof" the screened porch.  This meant hanging screen underneath so bugs couldn't attack from the floor.  He has also installed weather stripping at the base of the door, patched a hole and put in a screened dog door for the dogs.  Russell's becoming so handy!

Finally!  There's floor space in the multipurpose room...still lots of work to be done in here!

Upstairs guest room.  Check those beautiful floors!  Still lots of finishing touches (notice the tiny rug under the bed- we'll need a new one) left to make this room comfy!

The office (also new beautiful floors).  Looks like we're very hard workers judging by the size  of those desks!  Those desks were just about the death of both of us.  It took a rented dolly, many tries and lots of patience to get these desks from point A to point B but we did it (with only minor injuries to the door frame).  This room still has a long way to go as well!

....busted!  We just transferred a bunch of stuff from the multipurpose room into this closet!

Oh happy day!  There's no more bed in the dining room!  Can't wait to get those walls painted!


Downstairs guest room.  This is my favorite room in the house so far!

note the new floors...and the crooked blinds :)

It's coming along and beginning to feel like home!  Nothing exciting has happened this week, so I'll spare you the details.  Next pictures will be of freshly painted walls!

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Truck 2

Days 7, 8, 9

Day 7: I did a little tidying up- finishing up some open projects and cleaning a little.  Russell arrived later in the evening and we had our first dinner together picnic style on the screened porch.  At this point we have no tables!

Day 8: Russell and I ran errands and bought a new mattress!  Leslie and her boyfriend Hunter (I know confusing, our brother's name is Hunter too) came over to hang too.

Day 9: The movers arrived from Memphis.  Unfortunately, no one called to tell us they were coming so we weren't prepared for them at all. They were slow and careless with many of our things.  Pretty much if it was antique and irreplaceable- they broke it.

Here are just a few examples of broken stuff:
the beginning of broken furniture- they must've thrown this chair out of the truck

another broken place, same chair

Russell's grandmother's piano- took a little wood off here...

and the whole leg fell off here.  Notice where they lost a piece!

this is our antique dresser where they broken the edge and glued it back like we wouldn't notice

Our new bed! King sized!

more boxes added to the pile...and cute little chairs in desperate need of new upholstery

Bedroom furniture!

and more bedroom furniture!


Kitchen table! We now have a place to eat!

dining room furniture...

still mixed with guest room furniture!

The living room that was once livable is now piled with boxes and rugs.

another angle

The screened porch now looks like a storage facility 

At this point we're now feeling like we have too much stuff!  Look forward to seeing how we put all of this stuff away.