Duct Tape Crafter

I painted today, 2^nd coat on the dining room, so all painting in the dining room is done! I need to put in the runner rug, and wax the floor. I also want to do something for the windows, and other décor items.

We have another room, for the previous owners the area was a beauty shop, for the last 5 years DH has used the room for an office. This room though was large, and was becoming DH’s messy collection room With all the ideas on my side of doing some easy fixes for the house, DH had one too! He wanted to separate his work area from his play / free time computer. To do that we need a home office, which would be wonderful for me too; right now my computer sits by the TV, which doesn’t make the most efficient for homework! We decided the answer would be to transform the old beauty shop into our master bedroom, with an area for DH to have a desk and his office laptop. We would make our old master bedroom into our home office, placing his personal time computer & desk along with my computer & desk in that room. There is enough space in the room to include a sewing area! We had already cleaned up and painted most of the room, the half bath, but for whatever reason DH didn’t clean out the small back room. This weekend he finally got the back room cleaned out, so today I scrubbed the walls, they are ready to prime and paint! According to DH, he’ll put up the new lights next weekend in this area plus the dining room. I don’t think he has realized that the carpet might need to put down in the old beauty shop – our new master bedroom! At least here I’ll have a bathroom off my room again This actually puts us in the right direction. The old beauty shop was a conversion in the garage; we plan to convert the rest of the 2-car garage, add it to this section, and turn it into a master suite. We know that the old beauty shop area in the end will be gutted, see nothing like living in construction zones! I’ll add more pictures as I get more done!

On a personal note, T’s coach pitch softball team took Grand Champs last weekend, this week they were in the parade for the local fair!

In addition, my personal assist is getting bigger every day! Isn’t he cute!

Although we have so much more to do on our old farm house that consist of actual tear apart and replace, there are some rooms we just want to look better until we get there. Seriously this is one of those areas that will be completely torn apart, but is on the list as next to the last area. We put the dining room as next to last because it ties so heavily into the kitchen, which will take some complete re-configuration, plus all the money for the new cabinets, counters, etc. For the last 5 years (omg we’ve have seriously been here 5 years and have completed so little on this house – at least to me!), some of these areas have been wallpapered. And not just wallpapered, but wallpapered over paneling! All this wallpaper & paneling seem pretty common in this area of Indiana as some sort of quick fix in these old houses, going over the old plaster walls. Anyway my quick fixes are to give us something better to look at for a while longer, and are the less expensive options. As of Friday this is what my dining room looked like:

That is 2 coats of primer on everything except the oak hardwood floor, and 2 coats of white satin on all the trim & ceiling! I painted it all. The steps need to be replaced as they weren’t made with the quality wood to be stained & shown. Even the acoustic ceiling tiles have been painted! This is what I have been working on while not sewing, gardening, or canning . Saturday, (yesterday) I put on the 1st coat of the beige color on the main walls, today will be my 2^nd coat. Last night we went to dinner then stopped by Lowe’s, I have new runner rug for the steps, and a new light fixture for the room! I’ll put a nice paste wax on the floor too. As soon as I get the painting done I’ll update another picture.

Actually I just updated my Word Press Program, plus added the custom smiles plug-in so wanted to do a post just to test my upgrades and add-in. I even found some cute smiles and emoticons I’ve also made a signature png!

Chuck & I took a detour on our regular home remodeling to do what we call our quick fix temp work We both just got so tired of looking at wallpaper & paneling, and since we aren’t moving fast enough on the full work, we opted for some get by painting and changes. Pictures & other information will be forth coming.

Today is just getting this web stuff fixed! Tomorrow will be garden/yard work, that is after I go to the store to get the plants I need plus a few groceries. I opted to just do tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, cantelope, watermelon, and pumpkin in the garden this year. I canned tomatoes & pickles last year that worked out wonderful, so want to put them up again this year. The bell peppers freeze up easy just cut them up to de-seed then put them in freezer bags. The cantelope & watermelon just taste good and the pumpkin Taylor loves because she has plenty for jack-o-lanterns.

Well take it easy, be cool , catch a breeze in this heat some where!

I had some blogging & server issues to correct, unfortunately it meant I lost my old posts! I will try to bring back some of the pictures and information of our work. I will also try to update the site to where we are on our work!

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