I have a text editor open at the moment of various blog topics I wanted to touch on. However, that isn’t going to happen right now. I am exhausted. We’ve been pushing really hard this last week on getting the bedrooms in the basement done. It really all started with carpet shopping last weekend. I had intended to just start looking. I fell in love with a carpet at Lowes. I refused to pay the $35 fee for them to even write us up a quote. I found the carpet at Menard’s. Wouldn’t you know, it was on sale only through Sunday (found it Friday night). After getting home, we called an installation guy. He said he could come and install the carpet on Wednesday afternoon if we wanted (as in 5 days away). We hadn’t even started painting yet. We purchased the paint, but it was still sitting in sealed up cans. Earlier in the week I had made an appointment for Empire Today to come and give us a quote on Saturday afternoon. They do not carry the carpet I am in love it, and they didn’t have anything similar. Plus they couldn’t beat the price. So Saturday evening we go back to Menards and place our order.
Sunday started off with lots of painting. Thankfully we had not committed to a date for carpet install yet. We were leaving it up in the air until we knew how much painting we could get done. We started with putting a flat off-white paint on the ceiling and walls as a primer. I knew the first coat of anything would just soak into the fresh walls. We did this in both bedrooms. Then we painted the ceiling white. We have a 5 gallon bucket of the stuff since we have so much to paint downstairs. Once the ceilings were done, we moved on to the tinted primer. We are doing very bold/dark colors, so we opted to have the tinted primer. Our bedroom has two colors while the guest room is a solid forest green. The primers were the last thing we did on Sunday night. We finished at 10:30.
Monday I was home during the day with the kids. They were wanting lots of attention since they were more or less on their own on Sunday while we painted. Once Robert was home from work, we started on putting the regular paint on the walls. We manged to get all the walls done. It was once again 10:30.
Robert used a vacation day today so we could finish painting the walls. He started off the day with a dentist appointment at 8am. When he got home, we packed up and all headed back to New Richmond. We needed to get another gallon of the forest green. We were also going to get the gray that will be in the hallway, family room, and computer/scrapbooking room. The cost of the paint shocked us a bit (we were going to get a 5 gallon bucket), so it stayed on the shelf. We ran a few other errands in New Richmond and returned home around 11:30. I made a mad dash to Hudson to finalize some details with the carpet that is coming tomorrow and to get groceries. Once back home, it was a quick lunch, put the kids down for nap, and start painting all over again.
At first I wasn’t sure if a second coat of paint would cut it. The walls were still looking a little blotchy with the wet paint. Thankfully as it dried, it all evened out. Two coats would cut it. Technically speaking, there are 4 coats of paint on the walls. We finished painting around 5:30. Dinner tonight was strawberry shortcake.
As a result of all the painting and running involved with getting us to the point we are at with the basement, the house has been totally and utterly neglected. I would embarrassed if anyone walked into our house right now. The living room has toys all over. The kitchen has dishes piled high. The kids have been doing really well with letting us do the work. They are ready for more attention though. Tomorrow will be spent with them.
While I’ve been working on this post, Robert has been working away at the dishes. He has to make rice crispy bars for tomorrow. I feel like I should help him. I can’t seem to get my butt off the couch though. Hmm… What to do??