condo progress

In two weeks, we actually made a lot of progress.  Granted, we wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much done if my in-laws hadn’t been in town to help my SIL out with some home improvements at her rented house and we managed to twist their arms ;-) for some help of our own.  We really can’t thank them enough for everything they did.  Because of all our hard work and amazing helpers, we even managed to go on our mini-vacation to Niagara Falls and Toronto for the weekend (maybe I’ll get around to blogging about that one of these days).

So let’s see what we’ve accomplished:

• Remove cork boards (x2)
  • Remove items
  • put in basement
• Remove most pictures (personal)
  • Including fridge
• Paint touchup
  • walls
  • obvious furniture dings
  • trim
• Deep clean
• Wash windows
  • inside & out
  • sills
  • blinds
• Top of coffee table – strip and repaint and seal
• Empty cubbies (of junk)
• Top of dresser 
• Move to basement or elsewhere:
  • rolling shelves - K’s
  • rock band
  • guitar - Hampton
  • trombone - Hampton
  • Wii basket
  • Wii Fit board
  • Club chair and ottoman - K’s
  • Bar stools - K’s
• eBay
  • catalog
  • list
  • if sold, mail
  • if didn’t sell, take to Goodwill
• Goodwill (probably need to do this more than once)
  • gather
  • catalog for tax purposes
  • deliver
• Declutter
  • Closets
    • hall
    • bedroom
    • bathroom – I’m actually almost done with the bathroom closet.  I just have to deal with the stuff on the floor.
  • kitchen cabinets
  • other visible areas
    • under night tables
    • end table in living room
    • kitchen counters
• Hang mirror in bedroom – We probably could have done this without the extra hands but with them, the whole process took like 10 min and nothing got dropped.
• Reorg basement / make room for more stuff – This won’t be totally complete until we’re done with everything else but we’ve made serious progress.
• Chalk board – declutter, depersonalize
• Cull magazines that have been collecting
• Fix molding in kitchen next to freezer – Much thanks to my FIL for the help with this.  He even brought a circular saw up from Hampton to help us out.
• Straighten rug in living room – it was cock-eyed b/c couch got cock-eyed when Liz and I put it down and neither of us noticed.
• reattach dishwasher power box under sink – Another big shout out to my FIL on this one.
• Replace hallway lightbulb with a regular one

Bathroom

• Different DampRid
• "Fix" wallpaper around medicine cabinet
• Painting in the cracks/seams of wallpaper – I attempted it but it didn’t work out so well.  I’m not sure if I just need to get a different kind of brush, different black paint or if I should just abandon the idea altogether.
• Recaulk tub
• Door squeak
• Faucet handle squeak – As it turns out, there isn’t much we can do.

Of course, we are now living in a disaster.  We’d even been living in a coffee table-less disaster for the better part of a week which turned out to be really annoying so thankfully we finished that project and returned it to its rightful place.  I have pictures that I’ll try and post of our progress here soon.