S'pose it's about
time we stuck another aul' update on here, just in case yous think we're
complete slackers.
After a few weeks
of trying to do everything, everywhere at the same time and a lot of
distraction from unattended projects, we decided we’d better just focus on one
room at a time. Defintootly a good plan and already paying off.
Behold, the
laundry! Tremble at the sight of its merciless wood panel.
Quake in fear at the
rotted window of doom! (The bottom of the windowframe was made of caulk when we
moved in. It had to be literally sliced open to allow the window to open. No
joke.)
But fear thee not
intrepid readers, for the wood panel has been conquered, the rotten window
slain.
Not much craic
painting the beast, all those grooves make rolling pretty ineffective.
Nonetheless we slowly but surely got the whole place primed.
Two coats of
colour later (over them bloody grooves again) and with the trim done to match
the main section of the house, the place looks miles better.
(Sidenote from Victoria: So I've come to realize that we're really good at taking pictures of the process of renovation, but really bad at taking pictures of how everything looks when we're all done. I blame this on the fact that we're completely exhausted and cranky by the time we've fixed everything up, so we usually throw all the paint cans down into the basement and stomp back to the couch. Which is exactly what we did in this case. No lovely pictures of how tidy and clean everything looked when we were done, no, instead you get a camera phone picture of what the laundry room looks like now, 2 weeks after everything was finished and now covered in all of the random things we threw in there to get the next room cleaned out and ready. I hope you enjoy.)
A brand new window! And....
Painted walls! Hmmm. So this is a little anti-climatic. It looked a lot better without all of our stuff in there. But at least it's starting to look a little nicer. We're waiting on the builders to arrive and make us a surround and countertop for the washer and dryer, as well as a wall of cupboards to hide the old window frame above.
Now back to TJ:
We're not done
here yet though. Not by a long shot. Next we needed somewhere to kick aff our
boots. Maybe somewhere to hang bags and set stuff down.
[Enter Pinterest, stage left]
So, we shamelessly
nicked an idea off the internets and made another bargain flea market buy, a twin sized headboard and footboard.
Yeah,
it's a wee bit wonky and someone else did all the hard bits but I'm proud of it
all the same
So there's the tale of our laundry room. Stay tuned for our next venture, the back hall. Remember this? It was one of our New Years Resolutions. And we're really doing it! We've even cleared it all out and everything:
We'll be getting new walls, a new ceiling and my personal favourite, a new pantry! Then the room will finally be ready for my even more personal favourite - a puppy! Just imagine a comfy little doggie bed in the back corner...
