Home Improvement

I've been working hard all week on my new floor and I haven't even opened the packages of wood yet. Once the carpet was gone, it occurred to me that the walls looked dingy and that this would be the perfect time to paint. So, I spent several days painting.

And once the walls were painted, the doors looked dingy, so they got painted as well. Doors, I've discovered are hard to paint. Glossy paint shows brush strokes. I'm wondering if I should just get new doors.

I might be done with the painting in that one room, but I won't know for sure until I see what the paint looks like in the morning once the sun hits it.

Removing the carpet padding is so far the worst job. The carpet installers used a ton of glue to hold down the pad and it's stuck to the floor. The floor scraping tool doesn't work very well on that gooey mess and I'm beginning to regret not just putting the wood on top of the carpet pad, but it's too late now.

Hopefully, by the end of the week I will be ready to start laying wood. That's when the real cursing will start.

Once the downstairs is done, I'll need to fix up the upstairs. Help! I've started renovating and I can't stop.