We have the very last of the paneling and popcorn down! The dining room was de-paneled and popcorned this past weekend. Look how lovely the walls look. Apparently no amount of cheap 1970's fiberboard paneling can keep 30 years of raunchy cigarette smoke off the walls. That is what our new friend, TSP, is for. I went through 5 buckets of dirty water after washing the living room walls down with a mop soaked in TSP (tri-sodium phosph
ate). Don't drink it. Or let it touch your skin. As harsh as it is, I think we will need 2 coats of OIL based primer still! If you know me and my painting business, you know I hate oil based paints (for interior painting, not canvas painting of course). But it must be done. We have a 5 gallon bucket, I hope that will do.
ate). Don't drink it. Or let it touch your skin. As harsh as it is, I think we will need 2 coats of OIL based primer still! If you know me and my painting business, you know I hate oil based paints (for interior painting, not canvas painting of course). But it must be done. We have a 5 gallon bucket, I hope that will do.We have figure out how we are going to open up the wall in between the kitchen and the living room, to create a modular bar. On the kitchen side we have our butcher block island, which we are going to add casters to, and after we cut out the "window" in the wall that connects to the living room, we are going to but the island up against the kitchen side of the wall, creating a
pass-through window/bar into the living room. Eventually we will add a bar top in the same wood (that will be fun to find) as the butcher block, making it a built-in/but not really. Which is what we want. Options. Here is the cut out, in between support beams, keeping our costs low and sanity intact. The original idea was to take out the whole wall, but the 3 or 4 beams would make it very expensive to do, and somehow all this construction is costing more than we anticipated! Haha.
I faux-painted the really awesome rocks on the outside of the house with a combination of 2 different colored water-based stains + 1 color paint, which really helped. We want them to just fade away, and what they looked like before was not doing the trick. You can also see the patch I painted a milk chocolate brown, which will be the color for the stucco parts
of the house. And when I say stucco, I mean crappy Tex-Cote from at least 20 years ago. I want to chip it all off the house, as it is chipping in some spots already. "What?!?!?" you say? Yes, Tex-Cote is chipping! But it has a lifetime guarantee, right? Haha, the website is down and there are long lists of complaints against the product online. The previous owners had the place sprayed to look like stucco by Sears, and they sprayed EVERYTHING. The house, the eaves, any exposed pipes, wood siding, you name it, it's got Tex-Cote on it. Well, except for the fabulous rocks. Thank god for that. It will look good, let's hope the fresh paint job doesn't chip off! We are going to patch it and make it stick again, we hope. It comes off pretty easily, I am scared that we are going to spend time a
nd money painting and the surface beneath will come loose. Ugh. But it will look good until then. Plan is to add white trim to the windows and eaves, and black shutters, with a red front door. Same for the back house and the garage.
pass-through window/bar into the living room. Eventually we will add a bar top in the same wood (that will be fun to find) as the butcher block, making it a built-in/but not really. Which is what we want. Options. Here is the cut out, in between support beams, keeping our costs low and sanity intact. The original idea was to take out the whole wall, but the 3 or 4 beams would make it very expensive to do, and somehow all this construction is costing more than we anticipated! Haha.I faux-painted the really awesome rocks on the outside of the house with a combination of 2 different colored water-based stains + 1 color paint, which really helped. We want them to just fade away, and what they looked like before was not doing the trick. You can also see the patch I painted a milk chocolate brown, which will be the color for the stucco parts
of the house. And when I say stucco, I mean crappy Tex-Cote from at least 20 years ago. I want to chip it all off the house, as it is chipping in some spots already. "What?!?!?" you say? Yes, Tex-Cote is chipping! But it has a lifetime guarantee, right? Haha, the website is down and there are long lists of complaints against the product online. The previous owners had the place sprayed to look like stucco by Sears, and they sprayed EVERYTHING. The house, the eaves, any exposed pipes, wood siding, you name it, it's got Tex-Cote on it. Well, except for the fabulous rocks. Thank god for that. It will look good, let's hope the fresh paint job doesn't chip off! We are going to patch it and make it stick again, we hope. It comes off pretty easily, I am scared that we are going to spend time and money painting and the surface beneath will come loose. Ugh. But it will look good until then. Plan is to add white trim to the windows and eaves, and black shutters, with a red front door. Same for the back house and the garage.
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