I feel like in your 30’s you are really able to come into
your own. You know yourself better, you’re
hopefully making more money than you did in your 20’s, and you should be more
content with yourself. I feel that the
older I get and I hope it just continues.
I have fantastic family and friends and my support system is
amazing. 30 will be amazing!
Here I am, 30 years old, large and in charge!! Haha
Now, onto the renovation stuff!
This weekend was rough.
I probably shouldn’t have done as much as I did, but you know I can’t
help myself. A baby belly won’t slow me down!!
We emptied the main areas of our house of all furniture and
tore out all the damn carpet. I was disgusted.
I’m so happy they’re gone. To think that our child would have been
crawling on them skeeves me out. The tile
by the front door is gone, and all the carpet tack strip and nails have been
removed from the subfloor. Thank
goodness we’re having someone else do the install because I was exhausted by
the end of demo day. Again, I probably
shouldn’t have done as much as I did. My
older sister questioned me and asked if I was actually ripping out carpets and
of course I lied because she doesn’t even like it when I go to my workout
classes.
Monday we had a snow day so the house projects rolled
on! We painted all the doors in the
house and I also started painting the fireplace. The surround is done, but I couldn’t do the
mantle because we have to use a deglosser on it first so that the paint will
stick to the finished wood. Very toxic,
Ben is doing it while I’m at work today. So tonight I’ll put on the new door
hardware (going from brass to oil rubbed bronze) and I’ll paint the
mantle. Meanwhile Ben has to work on
detailing the step up from our sunken family room up onto the kitchen/dining
room level. It used to have carpet on
it, but now it will look like a normal step. Why the people that built the
house didn’t do this is beyond me.
And here are some pictures!!
The family room after demo (notice the fireplace)
The dining room after demo
The fireplace in process….after hopefully to come tomorrow
Happy birthday! Can't wait to see how your project looks when it's done!
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