1/08/2006

This weekends project

We began our bedroom "makeover" this weekend. Our bedroom is the room in the house that needed the least work so we figured we would get it out of the way. We had three objectives. 1. Paint walls. 2. Pull up carpet. 3. Paint Trim. #1 Check #2 Check. We were prepping the trim at one of the windows for paint hubby noticed the plaster was unusually bumpy around the apron. So he starts pokin on it its not plaster or even joint compound its caulk. somebody filled in two nice sized holes on each side of the apron/sill with caulk. BACKSTORY: Since are house was terribly neglected by the previous inhabitants, and then bought by an investor, then sold to us----we never know who to curse when we find silly/stupid/lazy/ignorant issues. So we just curse them all. So we start to pull out the caulk patch, to patch it right and we notice that the plaster under the window seems pretty loose. Well frankly its not attached to anything, the paint is the only thing holding it on. So we rip it out to find the lathe and framing under the window is pretty rotten. (from what we understand previous inhabitants did not realize it is not supposed to rain inside when it is raining outside.) So we ripped out all the rotten stuff and reframed with new wood. And patched with drywall. So we have not gotten to step #3 yet but that's ok, our window won't cave in, in middle of the night, either. And regarding the floors, when we pulled up the carpet, the floors look like the do in the rest of the house ( bad) but there are no huge holes or anything so that's good I guess. BUT the part of floor in the closet gives us hope of what they can look like...um awesome. It's pretty cool to be able to see a little three square foot piece of the past shining up at is in all its amber glory. So anyway I will post pictures when the room is officially done.

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