AS I TYPE, ELECTRICIANS are working at wiring the Living room for a Chandelier. The beauty of it all. I am keeping a vision in my mind's eye of the finished results. The hammering and pounding away is taking place as they prepare the way for a bright addition for our estate. Praying it all goes well.
There have been a few snags.
ouch.
To get where we are going, a mess has taken place. The Entryway, Living room, Dining room and Kitchen are in a uproar making room for workers. Furniture, dishes, nic-nacs are elsewhere where they shouldn't be. The mess has some essence of order. SOME. Just not very good order.
The Kitchen is out of use so we will be eating lots of sandwiches and TV Dinners. You can barely walk through there. Maybe dinner at a local restaurant. The maybe took over.
We are living like a couple of hermits in the Dining room where our easy chairs have been shuffled to as the Living room floor is being worked over.
Hairy around here as we wait for the floor layers to start again on laying nice new floor over the pre-existing floor that was once the underlayment of our old 1883 house. The wood underlayment is a weaker pine flooring that was under some other flooring under linoleum under not sure what else...fast forward into 2018.
I know from reading newspaper articles that in 1930 the Lady of the House had 'ALL THE RAGE' linoleum flooring laid down on the main floor as oak floor went upstairs. It was all the rage and came in so many designs you could have gotten giddy with delight to have to choose which way to go.
We had decided on a solid 3/4 inch oak floor in which the floor layers found the wood slates squeaking. Husband had already put 18 pounds of special design screws into the underlayment to prevent squeaking. Something about the way the slats embraced each other did not work without squeaking soooooo we discussed what to do next. We went to select a different flooring, found one only to be told it was discontinued. Back to the drawing board. We received a call from the company telling us that the warehouses came up with enough flooring to go ahead and use the second choice.
After sleeping on it, Husband believed that a new sub flooring should go down to level out the surface. Sooooo away we go. A new sub-flooring will go in THEN the new floor. Hope I got all the sub and underlayment words correct. If I don't...oh well I should have.
The main floor is a complete mess with purpose. By Thanksgiving maybe we will have a new outlook about the living room, dining room and kitchen.
SHUTTERS ARE ON ORDER. We will be painting the white trim a new coat of white paint before the shutters are installed in November.
A new ceiling will go in next week(?) with a chandy being installed where there once was. It's making my head spend.
The low down:
*Wiring going into Living room ceiling.
*Fresh coat of paint on Living room and Dining room trim, book shelves, executive paneling and walls.
*New underlayment and flooring installed in Living room and Dining room.
*A new ceiling with chandelier installed.
*Shutters installed.
HALLOWEEN
THANKSGIVING.
TIS CHRISTMAS.
Will hopefully get through this in one piece.
Hubby and I plan to do the painting.
Please pass the paint brush.
I'm speechless,
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2 comments:
I'll leave quietly so as to not stress you any further! :) They hit snags called "fire-stops" Two story house construction is required to have them. This wall has three, maybe four. Had to get creative and find another path. They mentioned wire moulding... I said no, don't like the look of it. Found a path down through the wall, into the basement and up through the stairway wall which already had an access hole to where the laundry chute used to go down. Progress. Now the ceiling crew can come in next week get started. Wowzer. Would you like a glass of wine dear? :) Hubby
DO you need crystals? I think I have enough left over from the chandelier as Cryta Lund from my fathers house? They are in a box somewhere? Actual crystals from a Swedish 16 bedroom house.
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