VACATION!
Well...not really, but it might as well be!! I'm off today!! No stripping of paint, no hauling of plaster, no framing, no tear-out, no repairing, replacing, or anyother sort of RE-word! Well...actually, this is not all entirely true. I don't think a day goes by where we don't deal with the house in some way. If we're not over there working, we're over here in the "flop house" (more on that, later) thinking about the house, calling contractors, finding tile, looking at paint chips, or doing what I do best...rumaging through magazines and tearing out "ideas" for us to do/use in the house! I love that!
Nathan is over at the house today with Ian, working on building the stairs to our third floor. For those of you who don't know, our third floor had extremely steep stairs which we had to tear-out (part of the ever so slow "demo" process as mentioned before. I still think a wrecking ball would have been faster.). So, today Ian and Nathan are cutting out the floor (we are also moving the stairs...they were in the back, now they will be in the front) and reinforcing one of the headers to prepare for next weekend's task of building the stairs themselves!! I'm super excited about that!!
I did go over to start stripping paint today, but we quickly realized that even though I will be wearing a resporator (the paint is the old lead-based paint), Ian and Nathan will not be...so as Nathan put it, "I'm afraid it's probably not a great idea that you strip paint today." Not a great idea? I think the idea of NOT stripping paint is the BEST idea since the idea I had three days ago. Shall I share? Yes! My idea was that we pool together on Christmas gifts and we get all of the woodwork dipped (you drop your woodwork off, people other than you, "dip" your woodwork in large tanks full of nasty chemicals that take the paint right off!!! You then go and pick up your nice and beautifully stripped woodwork!! Sounds WONDERFUL!!! Too bad it's $1.00 per foot...and there's a lot of feet to dip! Anyway, I've already started a dipping fund, of which I've stashed away 20 dollars! Don't tell Nathan, he doesn't know yet! The only bad thing is that the dip fund is also our Crown Candy fund! While I believe in eating well and being healthy, that is too much to focus on while rehabbing a house, so lots of ice-cream it is! Mmmm...chocolate-chocolate-chip ice-cream with hot fudge!! And of course...make it a Newport (whipped cream and nuts!)!!!
Soo...today I'll not be physically over at the house (except to bring the guys sandwiches, snacks, and water), but I'll proabably be looking up alternative materials to use for our soaking tub (ooo...don't we sound fancy). If anyone has any ideas, please contact tubideas@jitneyboy.com.
Nathan is over at the house today with Ian, working on building the stairs to our third floor. For those of you who don't know, our third floor had extremely steep stairs which we had to tear-out (part of the ever so slow "demo" process as mentioned before. I still think a wrecking ball would have been faster.). So, today Ian and Nathan are cutting out the floor (we are also moving the stairs...they were in the back, now they will be in the front) and reinforcing one of the headers to prepare for next weekend's task of building the stairs themselves!! I'm super excited about that!!
I did go over to start stripping paint today, but we quickly realized that even though I will be wearing a resporator (the paint is the old lead-based paint), Ian and Nathan will not be...so as Nathan put it, "I'm afraid it's probably not a great idea that you strip paint today." Not a great idea? I think the idea of NOT stripping paint is the BEST idea since the idea I had three days ago. Shall I share? Yes! My idea was that we pool together on Christmas gifts and we get all of the woodwork dipped (you drop your woodwork off, people other than you, "dip" your woodwork in large tanks full of nasty chemicals that take the paint right off!!! You then go and pick up your nice and beautifully stripped woodwork!! Sounds WONDERFUL!!! Too bad it's $1.00 per foot...and there's a lot of feet to dip! Anyway, I've already started a dipping fund, of which I've stashed away 20 dollars! Don't tell Nathan, he doesn't know yet! The only bad thing is that the dip fund is also our Crown Candy fund! While I believe in eating well and being healthy, that is too much to focus on while rehabbing a house, so lots of ice-cream it is! Mmmm...chocolate-chocolate-chip ice-cream with hot fudge!! And of course...make it a Newport (whipped cream and nuts!)!!!
Soo...today I'll not be physically over at the house (except to bring the guys sandwiches, snacks, and water), but I'll proabably be looking up alternative materials to use for our soaking tub (ooo...don't we sound fancy). If anyone has any ideas, please contact tubideas@jitneyboy.com.
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