Category: house

We can now safely say that over half of the inside of our house is painted. We went on a painting blitz this weekend. There are only three basic painting tasks left!

• Finish second coat on “The Blue Monster” – the single largest wall in the house, in the stairway – including ceiling detail and touch-ups
• Finish kitchen, dining room, and living room – these rooms are all connected so they’re one task
• Paint the computer room. Which means moving our ultra-heavy desks and bookshelves away from the walls.

After that, there’ll be a few touch-ups and we’ll probably re-do the white on the baseboards. But it is coming along quite nicely! And we really want to get it done so we can invite our friends over for a big party!

It’s been a little while.

First things first, today (or tomorrow?) marks exactly one year since I started work at Maptuit. It’s been quite a ride with a little company but I’m looking forward to the future.

Secondly, we finally got the garden planted. I’d be a dead man if I didn’t come out and say that Sandy did most of the hard work. The plants went in the ground yesterday, finally – better late than never. I bought way too many plants anyways so I won’t be too bummed if most of them don’t make it .

The long weekend was great. We got two more rooms painted, the small bedroom and the upstairs bathroom. Now there’s only the 2nd bedroom/computer room, and the rest of the house to paint. Then it’ll be time for touch-up white on the baseboards and… elsewhere 🙂

Jordan came over and stayed with us for the weekend, after going through some hell in har apartment (1am gas leak, anyone?) After we painted and she worked on her design projects, we partied hard together. Laura also came over to stay for a few days and helped us paint the bathroom.

We painted our bedroom on Saturday. I think it turned out quite well… it’s nice to have some colour on the walls finally! And to be able to hang things on the wall (which I have to get to… ulp)

On Sunday was Sandy’s wedding shower! We got a bunch of various stuff for the house and garden… luckily there was not much overlap with what we have, because we already have a lot of stuff.

Oh, I should mention that we did register for the shower/wedding at Sears. In case anyone reading this needs to know.

Tomorrow Sandy gets her Custom LASIK eye surgery. It’s exciting that she won’t have to wear glasses anymore! Personally I’m really used to wearing glasses and I just got new glasses. But we’ll see what time and money permit…

• One of the vertical blinds at the sliding door at the back is broken right off the track. It’s at the end so it’s not very noticeable.
• The lock on the window in the living room is broken (half of it is missing)
• There are huge holes in the drywall everywhere. Patchy, patchy! One of the holes in the bathroom has been stuffed with a tiny little piece of toilet paper.
• Rust stains from some metal-legged piece of furniture are on the carpet in the upstairs hallway. Nothing gets rust out of carpet.
• There’s a lightswitch downstairs that seemed to do nothing at all… I’d flip it on and off and no lights would turn on or off. Well, last night we solved the mystery: this switch controls the fan in the upstairs bathroom. No idea why you’d need to turn that on or off from another floor…

I’ve had it trying to install my own satellite system. Never doing it again. I’m calling a professional installer today. I just don’t want to talk about it…