*Ren-o-vate, good times, COME ON!*
On a whim, MB and I have decided to tear our house apart. OK, that's being dramatic, but we are redoing our bathrooms. OK, that's a little dramatic too...we are painting and adding new light fixtures, window treatments etc. Despite the fact that we have never finished anything that we have started, we are forging forward with this plan. Case in point...when I moved in, in December 2002, we decided to put new laminate floors in the bedrooms and paint. This weekend (yes, that's April 2005) I was painting the trim. Not necessarily our fault...we are just bad at home renovation. The story of this bedroom is as follows:
January - June 2003:
1) Pull up old carpet, remove old trim and closet doors, seal floor
2) Lay new laminate
3) Paint room with 6 coats of red
4) Nail on wooden trim after delay because saw breaks, and new saw is purchased
June - December 2003:
1) Wonder what to do with closet doors. Start shopping for new ones without cheesy mirrors
January - June 2004:
1) Find French closet doors. Decide to frost the glass
2) Frosting runs out. Buy another can and reapply
3) Frosting looks crap. Remove by scraping off with razor blade
4) Decide to stain doors to match floor and trim. Tape off and paint doors
June - December 2004:
1) Stain looks crap. No idea what to do now because nothing matches the trim. We decide to screw off for a while.
2) Brain blip! We can paint the lovely wooden trim white, which will match the doors that we can also paint white. We put 4 coats of paint on the doors.
3) Mount closet doors. Party held in celebration.
4) New trim purchased for closet doors and around door frame
5) Trim returned as it's the wrong size
6) New trim purchased for around door frame
January - April 10th 2005
1) Applying extra sticky primer to wooden trim, as the regular stuff just sloughs right off
2) Two coats of primer applied
3) Door and closet trim applied
4) One coat of primer applied to remaining trim
And this is where we are now. I look forward to our completed bathrooms in 2011.
January - June 2003:
1) Pull up old carpet, remove old trim and closet doors, seal floor
2) Lay new laminate
3) Paint room with 6 coats of red
4) Nail on wooden trim after delay because saw breaks, and new saw is purchased
June - December 2003:
1) Wonder what to do with closet doors. Start shopping for new ones without cheesy mirrors
January - June 2004:
1) Find French closet doors. Decide to frost the glass
2) Frosting runs out. Buy another can and reapply
3) Frosting looks crap. Remove by scraping off with razor blade
4) Decide to stain doors to match floor and trim. Tape off and paint doors
June - December 2004:
1) Stain looks crap. No idea what to do now because nothing matches the trim. We decide to screw off for a while.
2) Brain blip! We can paint the lovely wooden trim white, which will match the doors that we can also paint white. We put 4 coats of paint on the doors.
3) Mount closet doors. Party held in celebration.
4) New trim purchased for closet doors and around door frame
5) Trim returned as it's the wrong size
6) New trim purchased for around door frame
January - April 10th 2005
1) Applying extra sticky primer to wooden trim, as the regular stuff just sloughs right off
2) Two coats of primer applied
3) Door and closet trim applied
4) One coat of primer applied to remaining trim
And this is where we are now. I look forward to our completed bathrooms in 2011.
posted by Jennifer @ 9:38 a.m.
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