Painting, painting, and more painting!

First of all, I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to put together a post. I don't know how people find the time to sit down and make regular entries!!

Adam did a lot of the technical work around our house during summer and early fall. Hopefully he will get a chance to write about it later. :)

In late summer, I started working on painting the exterior, but the project has been put on hold now due to the cooler temps. We decided on a Husker palette: scarlet and cream! The house itself is white, and all the trim will be red. In the spring we plan on re-sodding the yard and doing lots of landscaping. I have a general idea of what I want to do. Stay tuned for more details!

I have spent the last few days trying out colors on our walls. It's been a lot of fun. I decided to go with ivory walls in the dining room. I'm still working on priming them. Adam had to go around and patch some cracks which took some time. On Halloween I managed to paint our entire bedroom. We picked out a very pretty blue for the walls to go with our blue/tan /chocolate curtains and our chocolate colored bedding. I think it turned out rather well!! I will try to update this post with pictures soon(ish)...

Tomorrow, I'm hoping to finish priming and painting the dining room and move onto the living room to finish taping off all the woodwork and begin priming. We're going with a sage green in the living room. Hopefully I'll have time to take some pics!!

Painting Party!

Rachel and her friend Machaela taking a break!

My sister (Rachel) made it back to good ol' Nebraska from her 7 months abroad last Wednesday, and on Friday she moved into our 2nd floor apartment, so we have been busy getting her place fixed up and painted. First, here are some shots of the new hardwoods in her dining room, hallways, and entryway. My dad and Adam's dad both helped out a lot with the dining room, and Adam & I were able to finish the rest on our own. Thank goodness for handy dads!!! :)This past weekend, we helped my sister get some of the walls primed and painted. It was nice to have a few of her friends come over to help out as well. Rachel ended up going with a cream color for the dining room and opted for a brick red in the hallway. She also picked out a yellow for the kitchen, but we still have to get to that. Here are a few pics from our party.

Rachel, me, and Karlee working on the dining room.


Rachel up on the ladder painting the dining room trim red.

SO Busy!

haven't had the time to put together a post! Here's a summary of what we've been up to this
Sorry for the lack of posts, everyone! We've been so, So, SO busy with the house, that I justsummer:

1) Finished painting the kitchen
2) Repaired the plumbing in the upstairs bathroom
3) Installed a new toilet in the upstairs bathroom
4) Ripped out all the hardwood floors in the upstairs dining room, hallways, and entryway (yes, the cat pee got all the way down to the wood, boo)


5) Installed new hardwood flooring upstairs

I will try to get some pictures up when I get a chance, but thanks for reading, even though I'm such a bad blogger!Here is Aaron working hard at pulling up some toe boards. He was such a BIG help!! He and Adam basically pulled up all the floors in the dining room after Aaron took the crowbar from Amy and told her it was too hard for her to do!!

This is the empty dining room after we got all the floorboards up.

Here is Adam tossing wood out the window into our backyard.

And here I am organizing the wood into one giant pile. :)

Painting!

Who knew that painting could be SO exhausting? We are currently in the process of repainting our kitchen. It was a horrible combination of periwinkle blue and a sort of peachy yellow.

Not too pretty. It took me forever to prime, but I finally finished with the help of Adam & Cyrus. The previous inhabitants had painted everything, including the cabinets, so we discovered how painstakingly slow it is to paint inside and outside of cabinets!

Today I got most of the painting done. It took me 2 hours to finish putting up painter's tape. YIKES!! And after that I got one coat of gray on all the walls. Cyrus helped out by doing all the corners that I couldn't reach. Yay! I decided to paint the entire kitchen gray with white trim. It looks pretty gorgeous, in my opinion, but I'll let you all voice your own opinions! :)


Tomorrow I hope to get another coat on the walls and finish painting all the windowsills. I will try to keep this blog updated more often!! Keep checking back, and thanks for reading!

Moving Day!

My family came down for the Spring game on April 18, which was a ton of fun. We hope the Huskers will do well this year!!!

Afterward, we began the moving process and worked on some more cleaning which was not as much fun, haha. Adam's family came down that evening to help out, and of course we had good ol' Cyrus too.

Everyone spent the night in Lincoln, and then the real moving began on Sunday after a nice big brunch that Cyrus, Amy, and I cooked at me and Adam's apartment. It was a great way to start out the day.
In the end we got a lot accomplished, and we took the next few days off to relax!

Cleaning

We spent a few weekends getting ready for the big move just cleaning and prepping the house. Here are a few pictures!Adam with a potential asbestos sample. The test came back negative. Woo Hoo!!!


Here is Cyrus with a huge clog that the boys pulled out of the tub plumbing.


And here's one of me scrubbing the walls in our closet.


Shiny floors in our bedroom!

The Beginning

Welcome to our blog! We are so excited to share our renovation journey with you!




Here are some tidbits of information about our new home.

• It was built by George A. Berlinghof who also designed Lincoln High School, the Seward County Courthouse, and the Miller and Paine building in downtown Lincoln, amongst many others.
• It has over 4000 sq. ft. (including the unfinished basement and attic)
• It is currently divided into 2 separate units (the first floor and basement & the 2nd floor and attic)
• We have a "pet" squirrel living in one of the attic crawl spaces. Yikes!

We closed on the house on March 30, and started working on our renovations immediately! Stay tuned for pictures as we continue to forge ahead into our many projects!