Ebates Coupons and Cash Back My 1905 Kansas Victorian: November 2006

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Playing in the mud

The wall in the office has had it's third coat of mud. Doug hopes we will be painting it today. He put on three coats of mud.

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Another one (starts to) bite the dust

I know we haven't finished the wall in the office but we are down to taping and mudding which involves a lot of waiting so I decided to start ripping out the closet in the sunroom. Here's the only "before" picture I have of it. It's just to the right of the door in this picture.

There are several reasons that this closet is going. I don't just randomly rip out closets and yet this is the second one in this house that we have destroyed. This one, unlike the one in the office, is going to be rebuilt. One reason that this one is going is because, like the one in the office, it had small doors and therefore, you couldn't see what was in at least half of the closet space.

The other reason involves the tornado that went through here in 2000. This house was hit by the tornado in this back section and the roof was torn off. Water poured in for several days as they had quite a bit of rain after the tornado. The house was reroofed but the homeowners didn't clean up all the damage from the water. The back of this closet is in terrible shape.
Water damage

Mold and Mildew

Layers of peeling wallpaper

This should have been cleaned up right after the tornado but it wasn't so we're doing it six years later.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

A little sheetrock is a wonderful thing

I said that I thought we could sheetrock yesterday and it actually happened! Actually, Doug and our friend Bill sheetrocked. I spent all afternoon raking and cleaning up the back yard. Anyway, here are the "in-progress" pictures.


Sheetrock can make a room look so finished. I know that it's still several days away from painting because of the taping and mudding but it's such a step forward.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

The "To-Do" List revisited

OK, just a little accountability for what I said that we would do this fall. We seem to have done everything except what is on this list.

1) Move the phone cords in kitchen-STILL NOT DONE

2) Repair the hole in the kitchen ceiling-STILL NOT DONE (but definitely on the short list)

3) Repair the hole in the bedroom ceiling-STILL NOT DONE

4) Put in more electrical outlets for office-DONE! There are now 6 new outlets in the office.

5) Put up the face plates in guest room-DONE!

6) Run the electrical to air conditioner-DONE! And we have the heating hooked up and working as well!

7) Put in the plexiglass panel for screen door-DONE!

8) Reassemble the kitchen ceiling fan-STILL NOT DONE (but definitely on the short list)

9) Put in the glass for guest room French door-DONE! Doug did this a couple of weeks ago. It looks great!

10) Get a screen panel for the back screen door-DONE!

11) Shave off the door of the sunroom-DONE! and Doug fixed the latch so the door will actually latch and stay closed

12) Patch the hole in the sunroom wall-NOT DONE (and not on Doug's radar)

13) Put a longer coaxial cord on the tivos so we can move them-DONE!

14) Assemble David’s bed-DONE!

15) Build a bed frame for our bed-DONE Actually we got a frame for our bed from the Labette Freecycle list. I love getting things for free!

16) Get the dining room table and other furniture out of storage-DONE!

17) Hang up a miniblind in David’s room-NOT DONE I really think we have decided against this so it will probably come off the list

18) Cover the french doors in Rachel's room-DONE!

So 7 out of 18 are still not done. 2 will definitely be done before Thanksgiving, one will probably come off the list so it is there is light at the end of the tunnel.
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