What We've Done in all of the Rooms:
- Painted Walls
- Kitchen, Living Room, Family Room, Bathroom
- Painted Ceilings
- Kitchen, Living Room, Family Room, Bathroom
- Tore out and replaced all flooring to a handscraped laminate
- Tore out and replaced all interior doors
- Removed all knobs and hinges and replaced with bronze ones
- Tore out and replaced all base trim and door trim
What We've Done in the Living Room:
- Painted the front door
What We've Done in the Kitchen
- Painted Cabinets
- Added Cabinet Hardware
- Replaced the lighting above the table and the semi-flush mount fixture
- New harvest table and chairs
- Took down the vertical blinds over the slider and added curtains instead
- Made roman shades for the 2 windows over the sink
- Installed new quarter round under the cabinets
What We've Done in the Bathroom
- Painted all of the trim and door white before buying new and doing it all over again
- Installed a new toilet
- Made a new sink vanity from a desk and pieces from Overstock.com
What We've Done in the Family Room
- Replaced the ceiling fan
- Took it down because it wasn't working
- Found out the problem
- Put it back up, it didn't work
- Took it down
- Installed it upstairs to see if it worked, it didn't
- Installed one from upstairs to see if it worked downstairs, it did
- Tried the original one again, without the remote sensor, it works but is always on high with the light on now
- Painted the mantle white
- Murph purchased a new soundbar and wireless subwoofer to please his wife and her hatred for visible wires running along the floors
What's Left:
- Finish painting a final coat on the trim in the family room, bathroom and closet
- Paint the inside of the front door again, it looks odd blue now, so it will go white to match the others
- Replace hardware with bronze
- Paint the door to the garage, paint the patio doors as well as their frames
- Replace hardware with bronze
- Replace floor grates with bronze ones
- Replace bathroom fixtures
- Mirror, TP holder, towel ring
- Add flexible moulding to the fireplace hearth along the floor
- Add quarter round under the garage and front doors
- Window coverings in the family and living rooms
Long Term changes:
- New countertops in kitchen - projected 2015
- Tile backsplash in kitchen - projected 2015
Wow. That's a lot. We need a break. For real.
Throughout this process I have found out a few things about Murph and I, but the main one is that Murph is a champ. He trusted me explicitly with this overhaul from number crunching to process and did it all with a willing heart. He sanded those cabinets for hours, patched my botched holes, and never considered serving me with divorce papers. He is the best teammate I could ever ask for. I think I owe him a beer ... or 12.
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