http://www.ournewoldhouse.com 1918 Bungalow Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:30:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/happy-holidays-from-our-new-old-house/ When we left off last time, our living room and dining room looked like this: On Saturday, it looked like this! Actually, that picture is from after I'd cleaned up after the party a bit. But you get the idea. Friday night Brandon put up the last of the wallpaper border in ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/mission-accomplished/ Here's where we were on Tuesday night. Party's on Saturday. Can we do it? I think we can. We've made some good progress on the dining room. Here's how the dining room windows looked mid-chemical strip: And with chemical stripping done, waiting for wood filler to dry so I can sand it. The rest ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/countdown-to-party-t-minus-2-days/ Today Our New Old House smells like the following: CitriStrip Mineral Spirits Fabric Softener Laundry Detergent Bleach Rustoleum spray paint Tea tree oil & lavender Nachos It's been a busy weekend in Our New Old House. We set ourselves a deadline of Dec. 19 to have the living room and dining room done - or at least done enough ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/a-cacophony-of-smells/ If you remember last year we had to remove the claw foot tub from the bathroom to put down new tile. We were shocked and dismayed when the feet FELL OFF the tub and the terrifying realization sunk in that for a hundred years or so this several hundred pound ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/clawfeet-mystery-solved-now-what/ The paint's all up and I'm working on stripping the paint off the woodwork in the dining room! Pictures! Oh yeah, and I accidentally touched the metal tip of the heat gun to my arm as I was reaching for the paint chip bucket. I burned my arm, but it will ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/two-stripped-doorways-and-one-burnt-arm-later/ All through this process I've been asking (admittedly, sometimes whining) "Is it time to paint yet?  Now?  How 'bout now?" Yes, Kelli. NOW it is time to paint. "Woo hoo!!"  *Kelli does a little happy dance* I started with the Merlot paint for the bottom section of the room. Ooh, this paint is thick! First ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/painting-the-dining-room-part-3/ At one time there was a chair rail in the dining room. It's gone now but I liked the idea of having two paint colors in the dining room, so I put masking tape over where the chair rail was and plan to paint the top part Bone White and ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/painting-the-dining-room-part-2/ You know how you're supposed to caulk around woodwork and stuff to make a nice clean seal between the woodwork and the wall? Well, for once, the previous owners of this house did something right and they did apply a nice bead of caulk way back when. But that ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/is-there-an-easier-way-to-do-this/ I have big dreams for my dining room. I love the dining room. It's one of my favorite rooms in the house and after living in a house for a while that didn't have a dining room I remembered how much I love them when I saw the spacious one ... http://www.ournewoldhouse.com/painting-the-dining-room-part-1/