Musings of a Punk Rock Father

No photos for this phase yet, unfortunately. Sunday afternoon and evening we prepped the walls for the primer. First I tried to use a Shop Vac to get the drywall dust off the walls, but it didn't seem to do much good. So we dampened some rags and washed the walls, which worked better, but was a mess. Then we found some imperfections in the drywall, so went to work spackling and sanding.

I finished priming around 11pm Sunday, with only a few drops of primer to spare. Then, Monday we actually put paint up. So for we've gotten one coat up, and it looks terrific. It's amazing to see how far our basement has come in about a month and a half.

Then late last night we picked up our sofas. Originally we purchased a sofa bed love seat and a three person sofa, but when we got home and unwrapped everything, the larger sofa was damaged. We also discovered that it was too long to fit down our stairs anyway. So back to the store we went, and exhanged the damaged sofa for another love seat. This weekend we should be able to move the rest of our furniture downstairs, since all we will have left to do is painting the trim.

Our contractor should get the bathroom finished this week, because really all he needs to do is put in the floor. We're putting in all the fixtures ourselves. It will be nice to get the sink and toilet out of our garage finally.

At least it looks like everything will be done in time for Kyle and Erika to visit us!