The kitchen is white, the rest of the downstairs looks like a cave.
By Joe at 5 January, 2009, 8:48 pm
Well, I finally took a day and finished the kitchen. New Years day, to be specific. The walls were pretty close to being done so I just sanded down some spackle, filled in some smaller imperfections, and then started painting. The doorway is still slightly noticeable when you look at it from certain angles, but you have to be looking for it, so I’m pretty happy with it. Nothing built in the 40s is going to be perfect, I guess, and I’m finally coming to grips with that.
Sorry for the blurry pictures, turning the flash off makes that happen.
I peeled some of the wallpaper off of the soffit on the cabinet above the refrigerator and just painted white paint over the glue that was up there and it turned out pretty nice, so I’m thinking about just doing it over the rest of the cabinets to get rid of the dirty peeling wallpaper that’s up there until we redo the cabinets completely.
The walls being such a bright shade of white makes the trim look a little yellow, but it’ll have to stay that way until we get the living rooms done and then come back to the kitchen for the cabinets and such. The baseboard heaters are also the same color I think, I wonder if you can paint them… anyone know?
We also got the phone hung up all proper instead of having it hanging out of the wall and having a phone line running across the floor. It’s nice (even though our phone is probably the last remaining non-wireless phone in existence).
The Saturday after New Years, we got a lot done. My dad came over in the morning and helped drain the pipes in the garage and winterize the plumbing so that we could shut the electricity and heat off for the winter. That should save us some grief, and money. Thanks, Dad! Gretchen’s sister was also over and helped us scrape some wallpaper in the smaller living room, while I sanded the glue off of the wall in the bigger room and started spackling. Thanks, Merry! It’s coming along. I wanted to make more progress Sunday, but my arm was sore from sanding an entire room and we wanted to go visit Gretchen’s newborn nephew, so we did that instead and then watched Arrested Development on Boxee.
I know this makes our house look like a complete mess, but we have to keep everything packed and or covered up while we work so dust doesn’t get all over it. 3/4 walls in this room are scraped now… just the one wall is left (the one against the kitchen). I’m a little nervous to see what’s going on on the opposite side of the doorway that I had to patch up in the kitchen. They also uncovered this funny hole in the wall that appears to be filled in with cement. There must have been some kind of stove or something and had an exhaust pipe going out of the wall. It’s behind the hot water pipes that we are thinking of covering with a wooden box or some built in shelving, so we may not even need to patch it up, but it’ll be an adventure nonetheless.
This is just a shot of the wall in the bigger living room that I have sanded and started spackling. It looks SO much better than it did rough, and with the holes from the curtain hangers filled in. I’m so sick of sanding and then cleaning over and over, but the closer we get to being done, the more I want it to be done.
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