Glen took down the railings on the stairs that intersected with the ceilings. When we got the acoustic ceilings scraped, we didn't want to have to work around the metal railings.
Glen took down the railings on the stairs that intersected with the ceilings. When we got the acoustic ceilings scraped, we didn't want to have to work around the metal railings.
Playing games on the stairs.
Covering everything for ceiling scraping and painting.
After the people we hired to scrape the ceilings were done, Glen
primed and painted. They came one Saturday to do the downstairs,
and then returned 3 weeks later to do the upstairs.
We moved almost everything out of the upstairs rooms in order
to have those ceilings scraped and then for us to paint them.
Here we've draped the stairs to protect other areas when Glen uses the paint sprayer upstairs.
We all moved downstairs temporarily. Alan had his tent in the living room.
Roger got the famiy room (formerly used as the dining room).
Jenny stacked 2 mattresses together in the dining room. The foodstuffs had been on the kitchen counters and needed to be out of the way for the painter.
Pouring paint into the sprayer. Glen did the whole upstairs in one very long day.
Alan loaned Glen a lightsaber since it seemed to go with his painting costume.
I painted the risers and railings of the stairs to match the walls. All of the realtors we asked suggested painting the dark wood lighter to make it a less dominant feature.
Meanwhile, we hired a landscaper to clean up the yards and lay new sod and woodchips. His crew filled the dumpster with old grass and junk and then we topped it off with junk we didn't think could even be given away. To my bemusement, someone did pull up next to the dumpster and fished out some of the metal parts, presumably for recycling.
We hired Gary Edwards to paint our kitchen cabinets, walls, and ceiling. The old stove unit was pulled out to allow Gary better access to that space.
We ordered a new dishwasher, stove, and microwave.
Glen installed the new microwave, an above-range model. He actually used duct tape to install the duct! Usually duct tape is used for anything but its stated purpose.
Prior to getting the linoleum replaced in the kitchen, we moved the refrigerator to the addition. Lots of other stuff got moved there, too, to be out of the way of the carpet installers.
New carpet!
Glen managed to make the master bath shower sparkle.
And he replaced the mirror (backing had started to flake off) and the medicine cabinets.