Archive for October, 2007

Nursery

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Our room choices upstairs have been fairly arbitrary except for choosing the biggest room as the bedroom. For awhile this was the “office”, but it was recently re-made as a nursery for Molly. We stripped off the couple layers of wall and ceiling paper, sanded and spackled, painted…
We’d already decided on the Cocalo Turtle […]

Living Room

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

We took down the acoustic-tiled ceiling, pulled the lovely paneling off the walls and ripped up the carpet. To our pleasant surprise the hardwoods underneath were in great shape, it looks like they refinished them and carpeted right over. Sanded/spackled/painted the walls a chocolatey brown (we’d already bought the couch and chair so we wanted […]

Dining Room

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Why have a plain dining room? Why indeed… We started off same as the living room, took down the tile ceiling, ripped off the paneling, sanded/spackled the walls, and took up the carpet. We then bought some 1/4″ luaun and cut it up into 3′ tall panels to create a wainscotting. Nailed that up and […]