Category: House stuff

Aside from a few small areas needing touch-ups, the garage painting is finally done! Woohoo! Strike one more project off the list!

Monday and yesterday, while everyone was enjoying cookouts, doing the beach thing, watching fireworks and dodging falling bullets, the wife and I were neck deep in a house project long in the planning. One of those things that looks really easy when all you’re doing is watching other people do it, a little more challenging when you’re doing it.

We were painting the garage. Finally.

Ok, so painting isn’t really all that difficult. Grab a roller and paintbrush and have at it. It’s just a lot of work, and we have a big garage. First we had to move all the crap out of the garage and into the house. Then it was off to Lowe’s for a couple hundred bucks worth of primer, paint and a few more associated supplies. That was Sunday.

We started with naked drywall

By the end of Monday, the garage walls were all primered up and ready for painting.

Yesterday we worked on the ceiling and painted it in a nice light blue (kind of hard to tell from the photo)

We would have started working on the walls too, but when we pulled the masking tape off the walls, parts of the primer were coming along with it where the drywall joint compound was . Silly me, I didn’t think to wipe the dust off before hand so the primer just wasn’t sticking at all on those sections. So instead of painting the walls, I ended up spending a couple of hours scraping and re-priming parts of the walls where the primer peeled off.

I think a couple more evenings of painting and we should have yet another house project finished and checked off the list.

It was a year ago today that we closed on our house. Time just flies doesn’t it. We had barely moved in before starting to tear things out, most noticably the carpet in the three rooms. We were planning on doing the rest of the living room this summer, but that may not end up happening until later on in the year depending on the cash flow situation.

In the meantime, we have actual patches of real grass starting to grow in the back yard! The sod in the front yard is starting to look a little on the patchy side though, so I think I’ll have to do something about that soon.

The rest of the house is cruising along nicely. No major breakdowns or flaws that I’ve seen or noticed. At the moment, the two projects we have in the near future are extending the patio out back and maybe laying down some sod on the side of the house where all the sand was left over from construction.

The house a few houses down from us just went on the market for $280k. Yowsers. That’s waay more than what we paid for our place, and even more than what the place next door went for last year. Kinda makes me wonder how much our place would go for now.

and all that stuff

This is what we did to the house yesterday. The wife did the door a few days ago, but the garland and lights around it went up yesterday too. A string of candy cane lights got stuck in the ground along the sidewalk after I took this picture. It actually looks kinda nice at night when all the lights are on. I thought we should have used lights with different colours, but the wife stuck with white lights (to stick with the ‘theme’ she had in mind).