The first week in our new home proved to be more of a challenge than expected. With high hopes and paint brushes in hand we set to make this house our home. Little did we know that everything we thought would be so easy would take twice as long and cost twice as much. Optimism still abounds!
The week 1 favorite tool is hands down the crowbar. It comes in handy when removing old, built-in, ugly bookshelves and is the hands down winner for the “I wonder what’s under here” Q&A. By the way, always a good question but sometimes best to let the answer alone. In our case underneath some very old and dirty carpeting was some very old and dirty tile flooring. Being a new home owner this was interesting for the first couple of days, but once the carpet and tile was up (thank you crowbar) I had a massive amount of tile glue to deal with. Interesting thing about tile glue. My guess is that back when the house was built in the 40′s they used tar to keep the tiles on while in the 60′s something less offensive (but close). Fortunately I found something that was able to get most of the glue off of the floor (goof off – works wonders). And after much sanding and cleaning i had successfully refurbished my first hardwood floor – only 3 rooms, stairs and a hallway to go!
My First Hardwood Floor
While i was going through my full on assault of the floors, Jenna was busily working away in the living room on painting, scraping, scrubbing and more scraping.
Jenna Painting
Probably the most important part of week 1 is that the puppies are adjusting to having a backyard quite nicely.
Puppies Enjoying the Yard
