Family HOme Evening

Now the fam is waiting for me to join them for FHE "Remodel Style" The kids are hoping this never ends!

Days 2, 3, 4 & 5

I haven't blogged the last couple of days for several reasons
1) I have been DEAD TIRED at the end of the day and haven't felt like it
2) My computer is acting like the family television while ours is in the garage so it hasn't been available much
3) For as much work as we have done, you can't really tell int he pictures so what is the point?

Okay...so we got the carpet padding out, pulled up all the carpet tacks (which Kelsie and Ty hated because it was so loud!) and found a guy to put the texture on for mot too much. All that was accomplished Friday (Day 2).

Day 3: I cleaned up the ceiling in the Family Room by scraping all the little stuff we missed in our original scraping of the popcorn. It was a very dusty job, but I suceeded. Ty and Kelsie grabbed whatever toys they could find to put over their heads so they could stand under whereever I was scraping. Good family fun! We then had a birthday party to go to and it was Valentines Day so we called it a day!



Day 4 was the Sabbath so we took it easy watching movies on the computer. My little family is now getting too big for us all to fit into our queen-sized-bed comfortably. Did you know you can watch Karate Kid online? It is great!

Day 5: The rain comtinued to pour down so Ty had to splash around a little bit outside. He loves to get out the rubber boots and umbrella. what a cutie!

Today we finished cleaning up the ceiling and filled in all the imperfections in preparation for the texture to come. Dal is ready to quit his day job and become a drywaller. The texture won't be happening until Thursday so we are going to tak eit easy for a couple of days...doing little jobs here and there...making our daily trips to Home Depot...you know...the usual!

Day One

Okay...so we hit the ground running on day one of the remodel. We tried to sleep in (Dal woke me up at 6:45 because he couldn't sleep in). We had a nice waffle breakfast and started working at 9:00.

The popcorn came off great and we were pretty much done with the major scraping in the Living Room by 10:00. Not too shabby! Here's Dal at 10:00 this morning:



Next the carpet got hauled out to the side of the house. Good-bye forever!

And finally...at 9:30 tonight this is where we are. Our goal for the day was to scrape all hte ceilings and get all the carpet out. Check! We did it. Day One was a success!



I know it looks like there is still carpet in these pictures, but that is just the foam underneath. We didn't take it all out because we wanted a little cushioning for the other work to come.

Oh yeah...sorry if you tried to call us today...I took down the computer which happens to also be our telephone. It is now back up and running, though, so feel free to call once again.

And I just wanted to say thanks to Shannon for taking the kids to the library and park today. They loved it. Kelsie kept telling me all afternoon that she got to go to the park with "kinzie." For those of you wondering what they did the rest of the day...they were banished to the garage to watch movies all day. Tyson has been looking forward to this since we started planning this remodel. I wonder how long that excitement will last for him. Kelsie is already over that.

I am dead tired and need to go to sleep now. Bring on Day Two!

The Before Pictures

So I started to take before pictures and somehow got distracted. So here are pictures of the Living Room once we got the furniture taken out and before we started any of the fun stuff. The Family Room looks just the same...same nasty carpet (probably worse), same popcorn ceiling, not same paint, etc.

Here goes nothing...

A New House for the Rigbys!

Okay...so we don't really get a new house, but we are fixing this one up. Starting tomorrow, we are changing a few things around the place. (I guess the fact that our house is now worth next to nothing so we will not be going anywhere anytime soon as we originally thought has finally motivated us to make some home improvements!)

It all started with our nasty carpet. I have wanted to replace it pretty much since we moved in almost five years ago. (I will post pictures of its nastiness later) We decided that since we have small children who believe food tastes better off the floor than from a bowl, new carpet was never an option. Thus we are extending the Pergo from the kitchen into the living room, family room and down the hall. Since we have to clear the house out to pull up the carpet, we figured we might as well scrape off the oh-so-trendy popcorn ceiling while we are at it. And of course, once the popcorn is gone, I am finally going to be able to have the crown molding I have always wanted. Nobody in their right mind would put up crown molding without replacing the old mini-sized base boards that are original to our 50-year-old house. And while we are at it, there are a few rooms that could use a fresh coat of paint. You see how it goes! Who knows how many more projects will be added to the list before the couches come back into the house.

You may be thinking, "Why is Tiffany rambling on about all this in so much detail?" Because it is my blog and I can write what I want to! Just kidding. I just wanted to warn you that I would be offline for who knows how long. I know I don't blog all that much so you probably won't even notice my absence for the next few weeks, but I thought it polite to mention it anyway. So with that...I must go move all my furniture out of the house. Wish us luck (The before and after pictures will be forthcoming) If I find somewhere else in the thouse to set up the computer, I might even get around to posting some action shots of the process so you can all feel bad that you're not here helping us!