Work in Progress

Miraculously, I was able to find my camera download cord so I can share some pics of our progress! Our house is 3/4 packed into the garage and kids rooms - chaos!

99% of the floors have been ripped up to sub floor level, with only one patch of remaining ugly lino to go! Not too many sub floor surprise issues so far, thank goodness! Our bamboo installers are arriving next Wednesday and Thursday, so we're making fine progress.

On Monday, in the middle of everything, I had my wisdom teeth removed which has slowed me down . . . . a lot. Not sure what I think about it, but I'm getting my strength back day by day and I'm hoping to chip in again soon (pardon the pun).

So here's some pics with descriptions of the action!

Lower set of stairs minus carpet and devoid of the 5 000 staples I had to pull out!

 

I decided that stripping the paint from the balustrade and stair surrounds would give the best finish. These will be painted white, as will the stair risers (with bamboo tread). You can just see the very (un)attractive vinyl flooring which we found under the carpet. This is the entry way - imagine walking in the front door to THAT! ERGH!

We had to sprinkle baby powder as we removed the vinyl as the sub floor is very tacky from the old adhesive. Smells gross . . . but it works!

And just when we thought the ugly vinyl was gone, we found this under the carpet in our new bedroom. 

What was this . . . 

  

Is now this . . . (we're aiming for the shabby student pad look!)

My study that isn't a study, we even had to shift the Sylvanian Family homestead! Ergh, that vinyl!  

 

The playroom. The only concrete floor in the house and I have my fingers crossed that it's level. We found some funny scrawling from the original owners and messages from the builders, so we decided to write some of our own.

 

 I'm so glad 'Trever' cleaned up his pile of dust 24 years ago!

 

And lucky last, this is part of our upstairs 3-way bathroom. It's being renovated as we wanted the new flooring to go under a new wall hung vanity. I couldn't get a 'before' shot because hubby and our neighbour (the plumber) ripped it out before I could find my camera. To give you a visual, it was a custom built 1980's vanity with gold trimmed white taps and matching white and gold handles. Very retro. Very GONE! 

 

Onwards and upwards until next week when I'm really looking forward to sharing some pics of the new flooring! :-)