After a month

So it's been a month of steady work. We've actually got a lot done. However, it seems the more we do, the less the place looks done. it's kind of painful, really. Probably the most impressive thing we've done is pour concrete in the rooms we'll put wood in. This is what it looks like when you pour buckets of concrete. It makes giant puddles that all meld together. It was messy work... heavy, too. Poor guy had to carry it all up himself.

This on the right is the "before" picture. It's a lot different, if you see them side by side. :)

We also got some recess lighting put in. That helps a LOT.

We're also working in the kitchen. The doors are off and we're um... degreasing 35 years worth of , well, I'm pretty sure it's spaghetti sauce off of them. Then they'll be painted a lovely creamy off white with an interesting granite. Pretty hard to picture, huh. Yeah, I'm having a tough time, too.

The wood arrives tomorrow, so I'll have some pics of it starting to look good soon!!!! Wish us luck.

after the first weekend

lots of progress over at casa gompers dos. :)

what was once comfortably dingy is now, well, stripped. it was a LOT of hard work (thankfully we had the right protective gear) but was really worth it. the first pic was after we scraped the popcorn from the ceiling in the living room. it wasn't nearly as hard as i had expected it to be. once you wet it, it kinda came off like cream cheese. mmmmmmmmm. didn't taste at all like it, though. hehe.

This next pic is what the bedroom now looks like without carpet, baseboards, tackboards (those were wicked to get out of the concrete with crowbars, i'll tell ya what) fixtures or textured ceilings.

i'll end on a funny note. when sam contacted the property manager to find out if she had the key to the place, she said there had been all sorts of problems over the weekend. someone had dumped all sorts of carpet in the dumpster and she had to call the police and have it carted away. hmmm... who could that have been?

more updates to come next week