...2.23...Friday House Update...Now and Then...

...Now...

...we set the last of the glass doors in place...Nanny had a door like this between her living room and dining room/kitchen...

...you've not seen the other ones like it but they'll show up in the "Then" section soon...we spackled and sanded and went ahead and painted just this area...

...so we could put the trim the Man had painted back in place...

...we've been a little bit 'challenged' with our curtain measurements...and we had gotten one panel for this back door onto the covered porch...

...and when it didn't quite fit...we thought it was stretched too tightly when it was closed...

...ordered another one just like it...but when it came...it was a good two inches longer than the first one...exact same curtain from the same company...so weird...so I had to completely take out the hem and then cut it off and re-hem it to the same length as the first panel...

...oh well...it fits and matches up and is much more drape-y than before...

...it just aligns with our Home Improvement Creed...absolutely EVERYTHING is going to take (at least) twice as long as you thought...

...and the Man continues to paint one door after another...

Then:

...now back to the past and the carpet installation...

...I wanted to protect the new floors...so we got some Ramboard...

...and taped that down over the newly finished hardwoods...from the front door...

...all the way to the back/garage door...

...and around the column in the big room...as we don't know which way they will travel...

...and first...of course...they had to remove all of the old carpet...

...they opened the windows in the Master bedroom and just chucked it all out the window onto the driveway...we kept hearing the heavy thud---thud---thud---as it hit the concrete...

...and then they cleaned that all up...and rolled out the new carpet on the driveway to cut it before they carried it upstairs...

...and this is the finished carpet in the Master bedroom...

...it's nice and light and bright...and really makes the walls look more 'tan' than they really are...

...the hallway...

...the small bedroom...

...and the guest room...

...and the top of the stairs...we're really happy with it...

...and then we rented the first truck...

...and packed up the first load of 'stuff'...

...and got it all unloaded into the garage...and then for a while we were living in two houses as once...and you can see one of the glass doors leaned up against the wall...

~Have a lovely day!