Day 47

Last night I met Josh at the house and he worked on the kitchen floor more and I started to paint Oliver's room.  We decided it might be better to put a coat of white on it first to even out what the drywall guy did.  His name is Troy by the way.  Maybe I should call him Troy instead of referring to him as the drywall guy all the time.  Oliver's room was a little more striped with the drywall compound.  And I'm really glad I decided to cover it with white first, because it still looks pretty bad.  I might have to do two more coats of white before the gray goes on.  And I will have to do this with our bedroom too.

Before

After

I ordered more backsplash samples and they came in the mail today.  It's like Christmas morning!  I ordered 4 of them from Glass Tile Oasis and one from Amazon.  I'm pretty sure the one from Amazon is the same from Tile Oasis.  About a month ago, I ordered a sample from Tile Bar.  I don't know if I have a picture of it, but it's the right color, just not glossy, so it will scratch easily.  We are still a ways from installing the backsplash but when I get the green light, I want to already know exactly what I want.  I think I like the medium sized light blue best.  I like the color more of the large one, but don't like the size. I'll keep looking just to be sure though. 

I remember to get a picture of our less creepy basement.

 

What else?  Hmmm. For the family room/playroom we are going to put down those foam puzzle-piece-looking things for the floor and then cover it with linoleum, probably something that looks like wood.  That's also where our computer and "office" is going to go.  We were both worried about putting a computer desk where the playroom is because Penelope loves to crawl on desks and make a mess of things and Oliver likes cords and wires.  Josh said he is going to build a half wall on one part of the room so it will be blocked off from them, but we will still be able to see them.  Probably right under the dining room.

 

For some reason, I'm so interested in the previous tenants.  Always wondering about how the house used to look like and why they did what they did.  I did find out that the man lived there alone, was on oxygen and his wife died years before. And he died in the house... dun dum duuuuun!  I think I'm ok with this though because his bedroom was downstairs where we are putting the laundry room, so we've totally demolished it.  I'd like to hope he died in that room, for my sake.  The propane delivery guy also told us that the previous owner was a "collector" (hoarder).  The garage was piled up and the backyard was full of crap. They loaded at least 3 big dumpsters with things from inside. I guess that's why it took them 5 months to finally have the estate sale.