Room Remodel

So it only took us all summer, but we did finally finish fixing our storage room!!!

Just so that you get the full impact, here is the picture of the room when we bought the house. The wall paper is covering wood paneling.
We stripped the wall paper and filled the cracks in the paneling and then textured the wall so that you could not tell it was paneling anymore and we installed laminate over the existing nasty linoleum. You couldn't have paid me a million dollars to have ripped that out after ripping out the kitchen, dining room, entry, hall, hall closet and laundry room. We had to rip off the top layers and then scrape on our hands and knees with a razor blade... anyway it was awful.

After our room flooded and the laminate warped we had to redo things again. By doing it ourselves we got to replace all the walls and the bathroom and the flooring without paying for it!! We had a beehive in the ceiling in this room when we bought the house, it was removed but there was obviously still some honey or something left in the far wall because the paneling started to warp! So we replaced all the walls with drywall.

I am proud because I finally learned how to drywall correctly so that the seams didn't show and there were no weird lumps from the drywall mud not being smooth enough. I am quite pleased, although I was quite sore by the time I was done.

We also decided to tile this time so that if the bathroom floods again we can just wipe it up and not have to replace everything. Remodeling a room twice is quite enough for me!!

So the funny thing is that I told Andy that I was not in the position to be remodeling again - with all the kids home for the summer and 3 kids 3 and under - so if he wanted to do the work himself he could, but I was ok with paying someone to do it with our insurance money. I made it pretty clear that I was going to do no work in that room - Ha.

We thought we could tackle the linoleum this time because we found out that Home Depot had a linoleum scraper that you can rent (it only got the top layer off and we still had to hand scrape the rest with a razor blade =P.) so I conceded that it might be wise to tile so that we won't have to worry about the room anymore and that is my job. Then we were going to hire someone to do the drywall, but um that never happened so Andy put up the drywall and we both read on line how to do it, I watched a few videos, and since I am at home an Andy is at work I also became the drywall pro. Then I primed and painted although Andy thankfully did the last coat, and I put up molding and Andy did the wiring. Plus we redid the bathroom, in which Andy took out the tile and 1 inch of concrete (with a jack hammer) we both ripped out and replaced walls. I mudded, painted, tiled, grouted, and then he put in the fixtures.

I am not saying I did all the work but I did at least over half of it and the more time consuming stuff -- obviously I need to work at following through on my decisions!!!