Let the Rehab Commence!

Saturday, October 28,2006

On this day, we really rolled up our sleeves and dug in deeper. Mostly Ray did the dirty work while I busied myself with the walls in the dining area.

Some of the wallpaper in the dining area is hanging off the wall; I won't have any luck gluing it back on. This is a small setback that I wanted to avoid, because removing old wallpaper usually means adding mud to the walls to cover the holes (the drywall crumbles away from the wall). This adds time and expense to the job (sigh). I will have to remove some wallpaper, though it was not in my original plan to remove any.

LIVING ROOM

Ray ripped the green carpet out of the living room to expose the beautiful (though in need of TLC) hardwood underneath. This instantly improved the room and made it brighter!

We both agree that this is a major improvement to the room. The living room is the best-looking room in the house; it has been slightly remodeled.

There is crown molding at the ceiling and a nice, neutral paint on most of the walls (one of which walls seems to be recently added).... Perhaps I can find a color to match the walls so I don't have to paint all four walls..?

FOYER

Next, Ray began to remove the carpet in the foyer. That was the easy part, taking out the carpet just exposed a new problem; the tiles, which took a bit of time to decide what to do with them.

After much deliberation, we decided tearing out the tiles was the best course of action. The hardwood is very nice; we would have had to tile the entire foyer to keep the tiles and matching the tile would have been impossible!

There was some pretty stubborn wallpaper on the foyer walls. Ray found that the wallpaper was glued on top of wood paneling, so he simply removed the paneling with the wallpaper!

This is the After Photo of the foyer (before tile removal).

This is the large pile of carpet and debris that has been removed thus far. We definitely need a dumpster to continue, so I made a phone call to the owners.