Houses=Work =p
With Angela and Dugan getting a new house that is kind of a fixer upper. Makes me more antsy to get stuff done with the house i've lived 2 years in already.
Things i would like to do
-When we moved into the house we didn't paint anything there were holes in the walls and cracks and I just strategically hung pictures to cover most of them. I would like to paint the living room, dining room, and office and would kinda like to paint the downstairs bathroom too. I didn't get the itch until Matthias (who used to paint professionally) This room looks nothing like you! To which i replied my rooms are supposed to look like me? Before that i didn't care, and now i'd like to kinda express myself in the rooms, besides the pictures i hang on the walls. I'm thinking of white walls and blood red around the top where the greenish is now. and then I picked a blue i like from the rug in the office to paint the walls in. The downstairs bathroom i think is kinda blah, i kinda want some type of pink, which i am unsure about because everything in my mom's house is PINK, and LACEY. So i'm a little hesitant to paint anything pink, but i think a deep pink if that exists, would look nice.
-Along with painting the walls goes curtains or valances. The office doesn't have any because when we moved in they were horrible 80's looking things and i took them down and haven't done anything else. The ones in the living room are just there to say i have a valance in the living room, they do nothing to complement anything. Dinning room's okay and then i'd like a small valance in the bathroom. (one the kitties can't reach to smother with fur when they sit in the window.
-Garage, something needs to be done with it. It just had a strip of outlets adhered to the ceiling that runs the garage door. There are no lights in there unless you plug it into the outlet. I would like to somehow have the lights go on when i use the garage door, cause (even thought i've gotten used to it) it don't like coming home at night to a pitch black garage and having to find my way out of it in the dark.
-Basement leaks. I've been working on this. One wall has 3 areas where it leaks from. I shoved cement in the holes and covered those areas fully. The last rain we had 1 of the 3 areas didn't leak the other 2 leaked much less. I still have to paint drylock on it, but i'm not sure that will stop the leaking entirely. What would really help stop think leaking is....
-Gutters. So when ever it rains the water pours over the gutters, they are clean, i think that maybe they are hung wrong or the wrong size or something but when ever it rains a lot there is a pond on the side of the basement that has the leaky parts. So if the gutters sufficiently get the water away from the house then the basement will be less likely to leak. So probably need new gutters.
- The front stairs need replacing. They are saggy and coming apart. At first Andy wanted to replace them with cement premade stairs and now he wants wood.
-The deck needs to be stained. I have had poor do it yourself staining of the deck experiences. I helped my parents stain their deck and (it's a large deck) we never really finished it all and what we did paint didn't last as long as it was promised. They now hire someone to stain their deck. I have no idea what to do. I would love to just hire someone and be done, but how much? and who? I guess since the weather is nice I could do it myself, but how long would that take? and what stain is good stain....Too many questions!! =(
- The downstairs toilet leaks into the basement when it's flushed. Just some drops but still. It leaks into an area of the basement that i have blocked off because the cats think it's just a big litter box. It leaks and is musty, but it's a small enough area that I just barricade it and try and forget about it. If i could i would LOVE to turn it into a crawl space some how.
- Put quarter round trim around the floor of the living room and dining room. (there isn't any there now) I have finally found the correct color stain. Now i just need to get enough trim, stain them and have Andy cut them and nail them.
-The landing to the basement is a horrible color and the floor doesn't meet the door, there is this 3 inch gap between the door and the vinyl. My dad gave me the material that would go in that hole, I just need to cut it to fit and he has left over vinyl from their kitchen that is a nicer color.
- the upstairs bathroom needs trim around all the tops of the walls around the shower and a cap of wood on top of the walls around the shower. (not just the area's that can be seen from the door)
Things i've done to the house
-Painted the kitchen door and door leading to the basement (they had never been painted before)
-Painted the trim around the basement door, it had bare wood that had never been painted.
- Stained and varnished the upstairs bathroom door, it was untreated. And got out all the white caulk they used to fill the holes in the trim of the door and stained and varnished it.
-Trimmed all the bushes, pulled all the plants I didn't want out, arranged rocks around the landscaped areas, planted flowers, got rid of the pond and put tomatoes there instead.
-Painted the trim outside the downstairs bathroom window, it was bare wood.
-Blacktopped the Driveway (yay, no more weeding the driveway!)
-Washed the inside and outside windows
-Painted most of the basement floor.
-Got all the garbage and stuff the previous owners left behind out of the basement and top of the garage.
-Matthias fixed the hole that was in the wall above where the tv is in the living room.
I think that's all we've done. Last year the big purchase was getting the driveway blacktopped. We haven't decided from the list which will be the big purchase yet. Perhaps getting new gutters? I think we maybe able to do the garage thing ourselves, perhaps the deck ourselves, and if it's between the stairs and the gutters, i say gutters. ANYWAY...
Well i should get off my butt and keep working on that list! Tah-Tah! =)
Things i would like to do
-When we moved into the house we didn't paint anything there were holes in the walls and cracks and I just strategically hung pictures to cover most of them. I would like to paint the living room, dining room, and office and would kinda like to paint the downstairs bathroom too. I didn't get the itch until Matthias (who used to paint professionally) This room looks nothing like you! To which i replied my rooms are supposed to look like me? Before that i didn't care, and now i'd like to kinda express myself in the rooms, besides the pictures i hang on the walls. I'm thinking of white walls and blood red around the top where the greenish is now. and then I picked a blue i like from the rug in the office to paint the walls in. The downstairs bathroom i think is kinda blah, i kinda want some type of pink, which i am unsure about because everything in my mom's house is PINK, and LACEY. So i'm a little hesitant to paint anything pink, but i think a deep pink if that exists, would look nice.
-Along with painting the walls goes curtains or valances. The office doesn't have any because when we moved in they were horrible 80's looking things and i took them down and haven't done anything else. The ones in the living room are just there to say i have a valance in the living room, they do nothing to complement anything. Dinning room's okay and then i'd like a small valance in the bathroom. (one the kitties can't reach to smother with fur when they sit in the window.
-Garage, something needs to be done with it. It just had a strip of outlets adhered to the ceiling that runs the garage door. There are no lights in there unless you plug it into the outlet. I would like to somehow have the lights go on when i use the garage door, cause (even thought i've gotten used to it) it don't like coming home at night to a pitch black garage and having to find my way out of it in the dark.
-Basement leaks. I've been working on this. One wall has 3 areas where it leaks from. I shoved cement in the holes and covered those areas fully. The last rain we had 1 of the 3 areas didn't leak the other 2 leaked much less. I still have to paint drylock on it, but i'm not sure that will stop the leaking entirely. What would really help stop think leaking is....
-Gutters. So when ever it rains the water pours over the gutters, they are clean, i think that maybe they are hung wrong or the wrong size or something but when ever it rains a lot there is a pond on the side of the basement that has the leaky parts. So if the gutters sufficiently get the water away from the house then the basement will be less likely to leak. So probably need new gutters.
- The front stairs need replacing. They are saggy and coming apart. At first Andy wanted to replace them with cement premade stairs and now he wants wood.
-The deck needs to be stained. I have had poor do it yourself staining of the deck experiences. I helped my parents stain their deck and (it's a large deck) we never really finished it all and what we did paint didn't last as long as it was promised. They now hire someone to stain their deck. I have no idea what to do. I would love to just hire someone and be done, but how much? and who? I guess since the weather is nice I could do it myself, but how long would that take? and what stain is good stain....Too many questions!! =(
- The downstairs toilet leaks into the basement when it's flushed. Just some drops but still. It leaks into an area of the basement that i have blocked off because the cats think it's just a big litter box. It leaks and is musty, but it's a small enough area that I just barricade it and try and forget about it. If i could i would LOVE to turn it into a crawl space some how.
- Put quarter round trim around the floor of the living room and dining room. (there isn't any there now) I have finally found the correct color stain. Now i just need to get enough trim, stain them and have Andy cut them and nail them.
-The landing to the basement is a horrible color and the floor doesn't meet the door, there is this 3 inch gap between the door and the vinyl. My dad gave me the material that would go in that hole, I just need to cut it to fit and he has left over vinyl from their kitchen that is a nicer color.
- the upstairs bathroom needs trim around all the tops of the walls around the shower and a cap of wood on top of the walls around the shower. (not just the area's that can be seen from the door)
Things i've done to the house
-Painted the kitchen door and door leading to the basement (they had never been painted before)
-Painted the trim around the basement door, it had bare wood that had never been painted.
- Stained and varnished the upstairs bathroom door, it was untreated. And got out all the white caulk they used to fill the holes in the trim of the door and stained and varnished it.
-Trimmed all the bushes, pulled all the plants I didn't want out, arranged rocks around the landscaped areas, planted flowers, got rid of the pond and put tomatoes there instead.
-Painted the trim outside the downstairs bathroom window, it was bare wood.
-Blacktopped the Driveway (yay, no more weeding the driveway!)
-Washed the inside and outside windows
-Painted most of the basement floor.
-Got all the garbage and stuff the previous owners left behind out of the basement and top of the garage.
-Matthias fixed the hole that was in the wall above where the tv is in the living room.
I think that's all we've done. Last year the big purchase was getting the driveway blacktopped. We haven't decided from the list which will be the big purchase yet. Perhaps getting new gutters? I think we maybe able to do the garage thing ourselves, perhaps the deck ourselves, and if it's between the stairs and the gutters, i say gutters. ANYWAY...
Well i should get off my butt and keep working on that list! Tah-Tah! =)