Rub a dub dub....

March 26, 2012

After owning these "brand new gutters" for about 2 years, we have finally finished installing them. It just took a little cutting:



In other news, my office is painting. In less exciting news, you really can't see the darker grey color in the picture:





Alok also started working on getting our claw foot tub ready. Who needs a $1000 re-coating when you have soft scrub and a 3M pad.




Looking good. The tub, not the nasty floor it's on. The next step is painting the outside black instead of bright yellow.

We also got the penny tile put in in the bathroom under the stairs. (It would also be more exciting in this picture if it wasn't white).



That's all for now!

Jessica

Happy 2-year Quincy-versary

March 23, 2012

Happy 2-year Quincy-versary to Alok! He has officially lived here for 2 years (in case you don't know what a Quincy-versary is). He is going to celebrate by continuing to do manual labor at the house. Here's how things are going.

We now have color in most of the house. This is not too exciting, because this is all the same color (and pictures are pretty worthless in showing the color):











The kitchen floor has been finished for about a week. Here it is now:




We removed the ugly Christmas tree shaped shelving unit and the burn-down-your-house or give-yourself-carbon-monoxiod -poisoning red heating unit.

The kitchen tile that Alok is freaking out over has also arrived and is ready to be installed in the tile part of the kitchen.



Speaking of the kitchen, Alok has discovered butternut. So, instead of painting the trim white, we will be stripping it (and by we, I mean he).




Butternut cabinets


Half stripped door

We have also laid the basketweave tile in the apartment bathroom. Lookin' good, if I must say so myself. We just need the subway tile for the shower area.





This wall in the front parlor is also being repaired. Notice that the chair rail is down. Alok wants to put it back up. I say leave it down. Thoughts?



That's all for now.

Jessica

We have more color!

March 19, 2012

So, I'm just posting this blog a few days late. More to come soon. I took the pictures on Monday, but have been too busy to even procrastinate by writing!

Here it is:


Dining room


Living room

(BTW, those 2 rooms should be different colors but look exactly the same, even in person!)

Alok also finished grouting the tile in the laundry room.





Now, back to the stair issue. Alok bought some sort of crazy chemical to try to scrape off the stair, and this is what they still look like:





No good! Painting stairs it is. Should be interesting!

OK, this blog is about as interesting as my psychological reports, so I better just get back to those.

Jessica

Stair repair

March 15, 2012

Alok has been hard at work poly-ing our kitchen floors. Here they are after the first coat:



While most of our floors are looking good, these stairs are a hot mess. Seriously. Take a look:





Suggestions?

Alok also purchased some rugs to protect our new floor:


With all of the nice weather, I decided to update you all on the outside of the house- look:







Yup... it's still a multi-colored mess. It's amazing how these things don't magically fix themselves.

In other news, our windows are also a mess. They look like something from a horror movie:




Sigh.

Jessica

Shades of grey

March 11, 2012

Gray? Grey? Gray? Whatever....

Well, we finally took a tour of the house. Here are all of the lovely floors!


Front parlor


Front parlor into foyer


Foyer


Foyer


Front parlor


Upstairs hallway


Upstairs hallway


Our master bedroom.... thanks to the "mold window." Alok says it "add character." Hopefully, we'll just "add a piece of furniture."


Rest of the master bedroom


Our closet


2nd bedroom


Master bedroom


My office


Left over from the garage paint they used. Good enough.


Laundry rooms with mysterious leaves. I believe someone has been in here.


Random holes courtesy of having plugs in the floor. There is a water bottle in here.


Now, we go from the lovely, clean floors to this:


upstairs hall bath


Apartment

We still have some organizing to do!

After going to Menards twice, Sherwin Williams, and Subway, we returned to find these chickens in our yard:



Alok and I spent the entire day deciding on the rest of the house colors. Our painter is starting Tuesday. We were hoping to accomplish more, but se la ve.


6 shades of gray (grey?) in the kitchen... we're only using 1 ;-)


Alok reviewing the samples


Even more gray in the eating area of the kitchen. We'll do a lighter color on top and darker on the bottom.

We still have a bit of floors to do:


Kitchen floor

But a magically elf sent this picture tonight:


Kitchen floor in progress.

In other news, our master bath was hardy-baker boarded up several weeks ago. I just didn't notice. Here it is:








That's all for now.

Jessica