Our Third House Is A Charm

Had a few nursery projects to finish up that have taken the past few weeks. First the general painting had to be completed and that took a long time to cover up such dark and dirty paint! Then, I made 3 blackout shades for the windows using an online tutorial I found here: http://365days2simplicity.blogspot.com/2011/04/easy-no-sew-roman-shades.html


The blackout fabric was an extra step I added before gluing on the mini-blind.

We also had a vinyl decal to apply and we waited 2 weeks after painting per the directions so that it would adhere well.

Then there was the stencil accent wall. Here I am at 35 or 36 weeks finishing it up. It took about 3 days to finish it due to lots of breaks. I used a "stipple" effect where I was dotting the brush lightly on the stencil so it wouldn't bleed as much.

We also figured out what had made or was making these dark greasy spots on the carpet in front of A's room. When we moved in, there were a few and the carpet cleaners thought they were dog spots? and didn't get them removed. However, once I stepped on them and they were sticky! So we avoided stepping on them from there on. Well after the AC was fixed, I noticed NEW ones! Maybe just coincidence but one day we decided to look up at the ceiling above them (not sure why we didn't do that before now). There was an egg crate vent and inside we found an old air purifier box. It hasn't been used in years and it was leaking this gook!! Nice, right? Well, we had it removed this week and then Ken started scrubbing the grease spots with Resolve. They are barely visible now, which is great! We aren't replacing the air purifier- they tend to only last about 3 years anyways per the AC repairman and they aren't needed for the functioning of the AC.

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Now that baby E's nursery is pretty much finished, we are going to start working on removing/replacing the floor from the kids bathroom. When we moved in, the linoleum was covered by carpet and the toilet had leaked for who knows how long and mildew had ruined the carpet. Ken ripped the carpeting out right away but had left the linoleum as we want to take some precautions in case it has asbestos with it. Tried to start the project last night but went to remove the toilet and found that the water shut-off valve was broken. He will have to replace that first. Other projects we will complete with the bathroom: wall-paper removal and wall painting, soffit removal, trim painting, and replace or paint vanity.