We are to the painting stage! There is still electric to be finished, but today with help here's what we hope to do:
Paint 2nd coat on playroom
First and second in master
Sand and primer in kids room
Figure out tile needed in bathroom
Buy tile
Start repairing holes in living room
If we have extra time:
Paint half bath
Repaint hallway
Tomorrow
Paint laundry room floor
Kitchen
Finish girls room
Finish living room
Tile bathroom
Rip out weeds
Kill poison ivy
Move garden plots from rental
Whew that's a lot! We will see how it goes! I'll update with pictures!
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Electricity halfway there!
We've got holes in the right places and wires sticking out! Hopefully today it will be finished! As expected the electricity has been a mess in the attic. It was also a mess in the walls. We are REALLY glad we decided to get it done, now to have it finished!
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
We are in!
After a 2 1/2 hour closing meeting we are in!!! Boy that was long, but it was positive and we are getting some money back from the deal, so here's to earning the money sitting around ;)
The electrical work looks like it will be around $2000- GULP! But we will be able to lower the cost a bit, by replacing the drywall ourselves. And that is to do everything we need to do and want to do. If something else comes up we will have to cut out some wants. The electric box itself which needs to be inspected will be $900!! Needless to say my jaw dropped on that! But with the permit being $400, I guess it's understandable!
So the electrician came by today to get the list of materials. She starts tomorrow at 8 AM. Tonight I bought a light and 2 bathroom cabinets. I keep going to the house without a measuring tape!! So I had to guess on the size. One is recessed and one is not. Hopefully I eyeballed it correctly on one of them! Now I just need to find one of the two tape measures and make sure munchkins don't take it out of my purse as they are wont to do!
Depending on the cabinet that fits It was about $120 for the bathroom. I had budgeted $150, so that's good,but I as really hoping to get something off of Craigslist for waay less (like $40- like I saw but couldn't pick up). Alas we needed this so fast that Craiglist just didn't work!
I also did a FAST Ikea run. And I mean fast! After I got the kids to sleep, I drove down there and got there 15 minutes before closing. I made a fast trip into the AS-IS department and they didn't have the table I wanted, so I went tot he computer, punched in the table and wah-lah, got the location. I went to do a quick look at the light fixtures as well as pick up a cart and made it back to the line in time to have the first closing call. I also closed out Home Depot an hour later buying the cabinet and light. This is exciting to see it all happening!
I'm also hoping to get an estimate on putting a door in the laundry room to the back yard tomorrow, but it might be later. That is going to require a permit, and might be a pricey penny. However with a back door through the living room and no easy outside access from the kitchen, the garbage will have to go from the kitchen through the dining room and out the front door. Muddy kids will come in the back door through the living room and into the kitchen and then laundry room to change. We're hoping to be able to have a door go outside directly from the laundry room. It will change the configuration a bit and may limit the ability to have a Freezer, so it's all stuff to consider. Plus there are gas lines and water lines that may prevent the entire thing anyway! We will find out soon!
More tomorrow! I'm hitting the hay!
Willow
The electrical work looks like it will be around $2000- GULP! But we will be able to lower the cost a bit, by replacing the drywall ourselves. And that is to do everything we need to do and want to do. If something else comes up we will have to cut out some wants. The electric box itself which needs to be inspected will be $900!! Needless to say my jaw dropped on that! But with the permit being $400, I guess it's understandable!
So the electrician came by today to get the list of materials. She starts tomorrow at 8 AM. Tonight I bought a light and 2 bathroom cabinets. I keep going to the house without a measuring tape!! So I had to guess on the size. One is recessed and one is not. Hopefully I eyeballed it correctly on one of them! Now I just need to find one of the two tape measures and make sure munchkins don't take it out of my purse as they are wont to do!
Depending on the cabinet that fits It was about $120 for the bathroom. I had budgeted $150, so that's good,but I as really hoping to get something off of Craigslist for waay less (like $40- like I saw but couldn't pick up). Alas we needed this so fast that Craiglist just didn't work!
I also did a FAST Ikea run. And I mean fast! After I got the kids to sleep, I drove down there and got there 15 minutes before closing. I made a fast trip into the AS-IS department and they didn't have the table I wanted, so I went tot he computer, punched in the table and wah-lah, got the location. I went to do a quick look at the light fixtures as well as pick up a cart and made it back to the line in time to have the first closing call. I also closed out Home Depot an hour later buying the cabinet and light. This is exciting to see it all happening!
I'm also hoping to get an estimate on putting a door in the laundry room to the back yard tomorrow, but it might be later. That is going to require a permit, and might be a pricey penny. However with a back door through the living room and no easy outside access from the kitchen, the garbage will have to go from the kitchen through the dining room and out the front door. Muddy kids will come in the back door through the living room and into the kitchen and then laundry room to change. We're hoping to be able to have a door go outside directly from the laundry room. It will change the configuration a bit and may limit the ability to have a Freezer, so it's all stuff to consider. Plus there are gas lines and water lines that may prevent the entire thing anyway! We will find out soon!
More tomorrow! I'm hitting the hay!
Willow
Friday, July 13, 2012
4 days and counting!
Yesterday we faxed in the last of the mortgage papers and we are READY! Now I'm sure we might get more requests for paperwork Monday but after spending a week chasing papers and being told each new day that something else unexpected was needed, I'm excited for the weekend and the paper chase to be over. I'm even more excited about the house! I'm still cautious because anything "could" happen, but we could also be owners of our own property in a mere 92 hours. WOW. I'm speechless :)
A;; our hard work might actually pay off and we get to start get the house ready to live in. I'm cautiously and SUPERLY Excited!!
Willow
A;; our hard work might actually pay off and we get to start get the house ready to live in. I'm cautiously and SUPERLY Excited!!
Willow
Carpet cleaning on a penny
I posted yesterday about the great deal I found on Living Social for the carpet cleaners. However the more I stared at our carpet, and looked and looked, I got a dark deep sinking feeling that the carpet was going to need a WHOLE lot more than steam cleaning in one room. I had read recently about ironing your carpet. Yes you read that right Ironing your carpet. Now don't jsut go do it or you' have a mes. First go and read about it here. I'll wait.
Now that you've read about how you only need rags ammonia and an iron to clean the whole carpet- aren't you excited!! I'M sooo excited! I can't wait to get the gunk off this rug and stop worrying about what might happen in 2 weeks about the carpet!! So first thing, I will be tacking all those ugly stains that have me scared and nervous about the cost of the cleaning. SO here's my crazy goal- to not even NEED ANY deep cleaning from the carpet cleaners and be able to pay only $50 for the carpet cleaning. When I have budgeted $300 that's quite a few smackeroos to save! That means I might just be able to sneak in some fabric, but probably more like a fence or actually afford to hire an arborist to cut down the tree threatening my children's' bedroom. But I digress. Let's just say it's kind of silly, but I'm excited to go to town on the rug! Thankfully it's payday and I have grocery money so it's not even going to touch the house budget and yet it might cut down the rug cleaning cost by another $25 dollars! I WILL take pictures!
Willow
Now that you've read about how you only need rags ammonia and an iron to clean the whole carpet- aren't you excited!! I'M sooo excited! I can't wait to get the gunk off this rug and stop worrying about what might happen in 2 weeks about the carpet!! So first thing, I will be tacking all those ugly stains that have me scared and nervous about the cost of the cleaning. SO here's my crazy goal- to not even NEED ANY deep cleaning from the carpet cleaners and be able to pay only $50 for the carpet cleaning. When I have budgeted $300 that's quite a few smackeroos to save! That means I might just be able to sneak in some fabric, but probably more like a fence or actually afford to hire an arborist to cut down the tree threatening my children's' bedroom. But I digress. Let's just say it's kind of silly, but I'm excited to go to town on the rug! Thankfully it's payday and I have grocery money so it's not even going to touch the house budget and yet it might cut down the rug cleaning cost by another $25 dollars! I WILL take pictures!
Willow
Finding deals!
We need to get our carpet cleaned and I was resigned as part of the lease. The price my hubby found(his job for that one!) was $299. Yikes! But that was the best he found, so I put it in our budget and hoped for a better deal. Today I found one!! At living social carpet cleaning is $50 for $99 worth of cleaning! It will be $75 total since they need to deep clean the dining room, but $75 compared to $300 is saving of $225!!!!
Here's the link if you happen to be in the DC metro area and want to take advantage of it yourself!
https://www.livingsocial.com/deals/384320?ref=conf-jp&rpi=70018614
Willow
Here's the link if you happen to be in the DC metro area and want to take advantage of it yourself!
https://www.livingsocial.com/deals/384320?ref=conf-jp&rpi=70018614
Willow
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Low cost project list
Here are the projects I'm going to look at doing for low or no money:
Laundry basket dresser (might have the wood in the shed) from beingbrooke.com
Laundry signs on wood
http://diddledumpling.blogspot.com/2010/05/tutorial-vintage-looking-painted-sign.html
Fabric mosaic:
http://thecartbeforethehorse.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-table.html
Cute canvas sayings:
Directions will be coming in a tutorial. I can't find an easy one on line for you! Here's my sayings:
Sayings:
http://www.ldsprintables.com/2012/04/be-loyal-to-royal-within-you.html
http://www.simpleasthatblog.com/2011/07/inspiring-quotes-free-printables.html
Eventually I'll figure out how to get My pinterest pins to post here. Then you can see all the pretty pictures!
More will be forth coming!
Time to pack!
Willow
Laundry basket dresser (might have the wood in the shed) from beingbrooke.com
Laundry signs on wood
http://diddledumpling.blogspot.com/2010/05/tutorial-vintage-looking-painted-sign.html
Fabric mosaic:
http://thecartbeforethehorse.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-table.html
Cute canvas sayings:
Directions will be coming in a tutorial. I can't find an easy one on line for you! Here's my sayings:
Sayings:
http://www.ldsprintables.com/2012/04/be-loyal-to-royal-within-you.html
http://www.simpleasthatblog.com/2011/07/inspiring-quotes-free-printables.html
Eventually I'll figure out how to get My pinterest pins to post here. Then you can see all the pretty pictures!
More will be forth coming!
Time to pack!
Willow
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