Removing wallpaper, replacing drawer/door pulls.

We slept in today, and didn't get back to the house until after lunch. We stopped by Uncle Mike's and picked up a rolling base for one of the big Rubbermaid trashcans. Someone stole his trashcan, but left the base, so now we're using it! It was a pleasant 72 degrees in the house when we got there at 2 this afternoon, which was a little surprising, given the 80+ temps outside and no curtains on any of the windows.

Here are some outside pictures of the house:




A trip to Costco provided us with lunch and a dry erase board onto which Krickey wrote our "to-do" list.

Our backyard: Abby ran around it yesterday, exclaiming, "My own backyard! This is unbelievable!" Her parents, however, realize that it's going to take some work. Luckily for us, this task has been taken over for the last couple of days by Abby's Grammy, Paula. How appreciative we are! We learned from some neighbors today that a pit bull used to live there. That explains a lot!


Kricket changed out all the drawer pulls in the kitchen. Before:

After:


Closeup:

Abby in timeout:

Kricket was not impressed with the wallpaper choice in the kitchen and tasked me with removing it. I used a little spikey tool to perforate the wallpaper, then sprayed on this stuff that would allow the wallpaper to let go of the wall.

In the middle of it. (Thanks for that trashcan base Mike!)


No more wallpaper.

Grammy and Dolly.

Peter cooking us dinner on the barbecue.

Next on my list of things to do is remove the existing shelves in the back of the garage. I plan on epoxying the floor, so I need it free of stuff. I'll be putting a workbench back in, along with some shelving.