Craft Room

I didn't get any scrapping done today as it was a very busy day at work,we had a nice supper with friends and then we went to work on the craft room. Seeing as I had no scrap photos to share I thought it was a great time to share the progress of the craft room to date.

When we 1st looked at the house the room looked like this

Great for a little girl not so great for us. I am not a big big pink girl. I like pink but not for a room, I really don't like flower wall paper, and white carpet really would not work for us with a red dog and black cat. So we decided this room was going to need a new coat of paint and we would have to take the carpet up.  This proved more challenging than we thought...

It started out nice and easy. Then came the trouble...

It may look like he is having fun and well, we when this was taken. However a short time later we were not smiling anymore. Around where that bit of green is showing through the wall started to crumble. The wetness of the wallpaper remover crumbled the plaster that was attempting to cover the big hole in the wall. There was a window in the center of this wall that was never properly boarded up/framed out.

This was what was behind that wallpaper tar filler and all. The new board you see is what Aidan and his dad put in. Yup that hole is what they tried to plaster over nice huh?

When we looked at the wood in the wall we saw that there was writing on the wood stating when it was put up. So we took the idea and wrote our own messages to leave in the wall of our 1st home.   (Super cute I know tee hee) 

Did you ever read the children's story "If you give a mouse a cookie" ? That is kind of what happened here. Once we took down the wall on one side we saw that the other outside wall was not insulated properly and seeing how we were at it we might as well continue and take down that wall and insulate it right. Only when the wall was down we saw that the window was not braced so that was the next project.
Then it was not to putting up the new gyproc

Thank God Aidan's dad was out to help when that needed to be done because there is no way at all I would have been able to help lift that stuff, and we needed a lot of guidance in how to do it right. Thanks Weldon!

That was not even the hard part after it was on the wall all the screw holes had to be filled. 

And as you can see there was quite a few to fill.

With the walls all done it was time to tackle the floors. We thought all we had to do was pull up the carpet and put a new flooring down. As 1st time home owners we found we were wrong again. Once the carpet was up and we tried to remove the underlay we found that it was glued to the floor. Not a big deal right? Wrong!  Every inch of the "black crap" (as we so loving named the stuff) was glued down. It took forever to get the stuff up and some really great friends who offered a helping hand.

Stacey, Steve, and even Belle came to help scrape the "black crap" off the floor.

Even friends who are not even in the province managed to help out. Virginia and Matt sent a G/C which allowed us to buy a wonderful new sander to sand the floor. 

As you can tell this was a lot of work and took a very long time to do.

But slowly but surely it came along. 

After we had as much scraped up as we could we used goo gone to take off the rest. A LOT of Goo Gone.

Then the sanding began. Sooooooooooooo much sanding to do. 

But we even had help with that. Salem kept coming in to make sure we didn't miss a spot and to track the dust every where to let us know how much dust we were creating. 

Not like we could not tell ourselves. This was just the window where we were not sanding. This is just one place it settled. 

After a lot of sweeping, vacuuming, we were ready for cleaning which is what we did tonight. 

And we are still learning. Remember that window still I showed earlier? Well we thought that would be a good place to lay the lid of the cleaner while we did the floor so it was not in our way. After we were finished and went to close the lid we saw that it was not such a great idea. Aidan put plastic over his feet to walk across the floor to get the lid. tee hee fun times as new home owners.

Next pics will be of the conditioning, staining and sealing of the floor. Then begins the adventures of painting the wall, decorating the room.  Let's hope that we don't come across anymore surprises. :o)