An evening off?

Last evening I did not work on the room. I took the evening off and did a couple loads of laundry, met with the electrician, mowed the grass, and made the appointment with the foundation waterproofer.

I have a pair of these end tables. They are over 20 years old and in very good condition. I have been dragging them around all these years and they are ugly. I have sanded one of the tables down and am painting it to go into the new bedroom. There is primer and two coats of paint so far on the piece, but I ran out of steel wool to give it a quick sand before I put on the final coat. Maybe I will go to Home Depot on my lunch hour today so I can work on this table tonight. Here is the before:

I saw the twins in the backyard. They are getting big and losing there spots. Sorry the picture is so dark. It was early in the morning when I took this and the flash does no good with the distance the twins were from me.

Day 15 - good news and bad news

I don't even know where to start. Ok. let's start with some good news. I decided to start with installing the window trim on Sunday after I got the primer and two finish coats on 40 pieces of trim on Saturday. Here is the before

I needed two sizes of nail guns and my compressor

I got my miter saw fired up

and of course hearing protection

Sixteen pieces of trim later, here is the after.

I had put on the touchup paint and it was still wet so installing the hardware will be a quick job tonight. The bad news is that the extension jambs I have are too narrow for the other window so I could not work on it. I will have to call the lumber yard, get wider jambs, and have a friend who has a table saw rip the jambs down to the width I need.

The bad news/good news is that I did not get the baseboards installed. Why this is good news is because with the heavy rain we had yesterday water leaked under the foundation into this room in two places. If I had installed the baseboard it would have got ruined. The bad news is now I need to spend the money to get the foundation waterproofed. I know now that this leaking has been going on for a while and it explains some of the issues with the dampness and all the bugs!

The house is still a mess - bad news - but the good news is that a neighbor is having a garage sale in September and said I could bring down all the stuff I want to get rid of. So as I clean up I will be seriously sorting and organizing stuff for the sale.

I have a several pieces of furniture I am painting, but they are not done. will post pictures as I get them done.

Oh, the really bad news is that my friend had to cancel the quilting weekend we had planned - the whole reason why I started this project! The good news is I found the water leaks, I will be getting the stuff cleared out at the yard sale, and I can now pace myself getting the room done for when my friend comes up in October instead of having to work so hard.

Good news - the electrican is coming tonight so hopefully he will go ahead and install the receptacles and the light fixture so that would be one more thing done.

The friend I have been helping learn how to quilt has started a blog. She posted a picture of the quilt she is making and I have helped guide her on. Her blog is http://mansfieldsmaterialgirl.blogspot.com. Her first post talks about how I have been an influence - not sure I am a good one - LOL!!

Busy, busy, busy!

The last Downtown @ Dusk party at the Art Museum went well last evening. The temperature has dropped and the humidity is gone so it was a very pleasant evening. I managed to get two more dozen mt beer bottles for a friend who is brewing their own beer. One of the other volunteers asked me if I would donate a quilt for a cancer fund raiser she was having and of course I said yes. I went home last night, rumaged thru my stash, and found this cute orange and blue number. I put a label on it and wrapped it up for her. She stopped by my office this morning to pick it up.

I will be heading out today to buy the twin sized mattress and box spring I need for the re-do. This weekend will be all about paint trim and furniture and getting the trim installed. I will have lots of before and afters on Monday. I hope to have the room done soon so I can get back to sewing! Have a great weekend!

Day 12 - late post

My computer took a dump this morning, but it is up and running again.
Here is what I accomplished last evening: I dug the head and foot boards of an old twin bed that I have dragging with me for years. My son used this bed for years - it was his dad's when his dad was a kid. I sanded it down and will be painting this weekend for the new bedroom.
Before:

After - I used the sanding pad on my handy dandy Multimaster. I wasn't concerned with getting every little bit of varnish off the bed - just get it cleaned and smooth for priming and painting.

I got the second coat of spray paint on this lamp. I still need to do the shade, but it is going to take some time to tape and paper the glass so that I only paint the metal on the shade. The shade is made up of curved art glass with metal beading between the sections of glass. I know this lamp is vintage, but I painted it anyway. It doesn't look bad in the pictures, but the finish was ugly and splotchy.
Before:

After:

I quickly spray painted another old lamp with a worn finish.
Before

After

I want to have a selection of lamps to pick from when I finally get the redo bedroom set up.

Then lastly I made some cookies to take to the museum tonight as a little treat. They are so easy to make and are really tasty! Martha Stewart French Butter Cookies - yum!

Day 11

I did not get much done on the room last night since my friend came over to have me help her with her first quilt. I did make an appointment with an electrician next week to clean up the receptacles, add a receptacle under the switch and add a wall sconce. There is no ceiling fixture in this room so the receptacles run off the switch. What this means is that if you plug a lamp in the receptacle and turn the lamp on, you can turn the light out by using the switch. Crazy! What I want is the wall sconce to be controled by the switch and the receptacles are powered on their own. Here are my supplies I already have on hand for the electrician. I bought the wall sconce on ebay for less than $5.00.

Here is where the new receptacle and the wall sconce will be installed.

I had the same work done in my bedroom/fabric storage room.

My friend and I were so busy talking I forgot to take pictures! We trimmed the edges of the top - she did a wonderful job finishing it by herself. She had a piece of fabric for the back, but it was not big enough so we went shopping in my fabric storage room and found a piece that went with the rest of the quilt. We make a striped section and inserted it side to side to lengthen the large piece she had so the back was big enough. We got the quilt pin basted and she plans on quilting it this weekend. Next week when she come back for a binding lesson I promise I will take pictures. Here is a picture of the goodies she brought me last evening - jams and salsa. After we had a cup of my veggie soup, we had my homemade yogurt with the spicy blueberry jam for dessert. Oh my goodness, so good! I told my friend that I could hardly wait for tomorrow morning to come so I could have it for breakfast! I am eating as I write this post :)

Day 10 of redo

I am having sewing company tonight so I had to clean up the sewing studio and the kitchen which didn't leave me a lot of time to work on the redo. I did get the border tile installed on the north and east walls. I was going to install the return air grille, but the screw holes don't line up where the old ones were. I am not crazy about the grille as it sticks out from the wall farther than the old one. I know how to modify the opening so the screws have something to grab on to, but I think I will try stripping the old grille and spray paint it.
North and east borders done!

South and east walls need the border tile yet.

Here is the fabric I bought for the window treatments. I am going to make a simple roman shade. I also purchased blackout lining since the light is strong from the east and south facing windows. I was in a hurry to find something so I didn't go any place other than JoAnn's. They did not have much of a selection in the gray family so I went with the black. So now black will be one of the accent colors in the room. While we are on the subject of JoAnn's - have you been in one of the stores lately? The one I went to has more than one type of music playing at the same time! It just about drove me crazy. I couldn't even think! One of the sales persons gave me their corporate headquarter's phone number, 330-656-2600, and I plan on calling them today to complain. I would have wandered around the store and maybe picked up a few more items, but I couldn't stand hearing two different songs at the same time - I just had to get out of there!

I received my 2 yards of Michael Miller Cool Zen Garden in gray. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find some on the internet. Apparently the gray was the most popular of the colors this fabric came in and many places were sold out. I finally found some on Esty. I wanted this for the project my friend and I are going to do when she comes up for our quilting weekend August 19 and 20. The quilt we are making will be the one that goes on the bed in the new bedroom that I am working on. I don't have a gray quilt for this room, so this is a perfect opportunity to make one.

A big hello to my anonymous fan in Wyoming!

Days 7, 8, & 9 of the room redo

Friday night I went to see my nephew do his guest appearance. I thought I would be home by 8 so I could get started on the room, but it ran a bit over and I stayed to watch a really good KISS tribute band. I think I got home about 10:30 so no work happened on the room Friday.

Saturday I got hard at it.
I got the walls primed and two coates have been applied.
North

East

South

West

Ripping out old ugly tile

Done ripping

Thank goodness for my handy dandy Fein Multimaster!!

Floor primed

Full pieces of tile installed - 132 square feet. I will have to cut a bunch of tile to go around the outside edges.

Set up trim painting station in the living room. The are 24 pieces of trim for each window unit!
Window trim - yes, I marked every piece so I would not have to guess where it belonged.

Baseboard

Baseboard, window casing, and window extension jambs

I am having sewing company Tuesday evening so I started cleaning up last night. I mean the whole downstairs is a wreck with this redo project going on. I got the laundry/utility/dyeing studio cleaned up and tonight I will work on the sewing studio. I have some furniture I need to paint so I made room in the laundry for that.

No sewing was done this weekend.

I'm tired.