Lately I have been thinking. I know...uh-oh.
My life isn't perfect. I'm not a millionaire, for instance. And my knee still hurts, usually more than I care to admit. My garage door has been broken for 18 months. And someone in our immediate family (whose privacy I've been protecting on this blog) is terminally ill.
But you know what? As lives go, I'm pretty effing lucky.
I'm married to an amazing guy who is absolutely my soulmate (and who puts up with my insanity no matter how out of hand it gets). I could not have made it through the past year without him. It sounds cheesy, but we fall more in love with each other every day.
I love my job - it's exciting, challenging and rewarding. At least three days a week, as I'm walking out of the office, I think to myself, "how the hell did I get so lucky?"
I'm starting school in three weeks and I'm beyond excited to be gettin' educated again. And I'm also excited that I have THREE WHOLE WEEKS before I have to hit the books. Phew, no need to stop the crazy partying just yet.
But most importantly? My bedroom looks amazing. We got our new windows last week and now all that's left is redoing the carpet on the stairs. I totally renovated a room in my house. Wow, am I a freaking grownup or what?
Anyway...I just thought I'd take a moment to reflect on all the good things going on around me in this rare moment of mushiness. Tomorrow, back to your regularly scheduled self-deprecation.
Showing posts with label home improvements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home improvements. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
When a house becomes a home
This was our bedroom in 2006. Please take note of the faded, stained carpet and the blue and gold striped (yes, STRIPED) walls.
And this is our bedroom today, minus the molding that we're installing Friday (I was going to pose with my hands on my hips next to the chimney to show you the new, improved me as well -- but I worked from home and haven't showered yet today. Sorry):
Any questions? :) If you're wondering what the floors are, they're Trafficmaster Allure, which is actually made of vinyl! We were going to install laminate, but apparently our floor is not level enough for that. You honestly can't tell that it's not wood unless you look at the damn thing with an electron microscope, plus it's waterproof and scratchproof.
It looks bloody fantastic, and it feels great to know that we did quite a bit of the work ourselves. But don't let anyone fool you -- remodeling a room is not a fun project. In fact, aside from the part where we got to throw giant rolls of carpet out of our third-story window onto the pavement, there wasn't much about it that I enjoyed. I will tell you that I did not particularly enjoy painting the ceiling for the third time.
Now that it's almost done (gaps on the edges will be gone soon), I'm suddenly motivated to make the joint look live-able. I'm going out to Target tonight to buy a new rug and some new lamps. The bedroom has suddenly gone from being the room we're embarrassed to show guests to the hippest room in the house!
And this is our bedroom today, minus the molding that we're installing Friday (I was going to pose with my hands on my hips next to the chimney to show you the new, improved me as well -- but I worked from home and haven't showered yet today. Sorry):
Any questions? :) If you're wondering what the floors are, they're Trafficmaster Allure, which is actually made of vinyl! We were going to install laminate, but apparently our floor is not level enough for that. You honestly can't tell that it's not wood unless you look at the damn thing with an electron microscope, plus it's waterproof and scratchproof.
It looks bloody fantastic, and it feels great to know that we did quite a bit of the work ourselves. But don't let anyone fool you -- remodeling a room is not a fun project. In fact, aside from the part where we got to throw giant rolls of carpet out of our third-story window onto the pavement, there wasn't much about it that I enjoyed. I will tell you that I did not particularly enjoy painting the ceiling for the third time.
Now that it's almost done (gaps on the edges will be gone soon), I'm suddenly motivated to make the joint look live-able. I'm going out to Target tonight to buy a new rug and some new lamps. The bedroom has suddenly gone from being the room we're embarrassed to show guests to the hippest room in the house!
Monday, June 9, 2008
Fun with home improvement, part II
Two years in this joint and we're finally getting around to doing the thing we said we'd do before we bought the damn place: replacing the carpet in the bedroom with hardwood floors (or at least something that looks like hardwood floors but costs a third of what hardwood floors cost). We had the day off work today to rip out carpet, and rip out carpet we did.
If I do say so myself, I rock at carpet removal.
Exhibit A is our naked bedroom. It will stay like this for approximately a week while our floors are on order. Shoes must be worn at all times due to the large number of staples still sticking out of the plywood. But believe it or not, this looks about 100 times better than it did BEFORE we ripped out the carpet! It was that nasty.
If I do say so myself, I rock at carpet removal.
Exhibit A is our naked bedroom. It will stay like this for approximately a week while our floors are on order. Shoes must be worn at all times due to the large number of staples still sticking out of the plywood. But believe it or not, this looks about 100 times better than it did BEFORE we ripped out the carpet! It was that nasty.
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