North Glenora Reno

I have been waiting for this day for months. We have drywall!! I don’t just mean piled up on the floor like it has been since last week, I mean actually attached to the freaking walls! This is big, huge, insane! I am just a little excited. I am dreaming of paint colours….I am officially losing my mind or becoming my mother.

I can’t explain what it means to actually see our walls. The drywallers were fantastic, albeit a bit tardy. They were great workers and knew that they had a deadline. The taper comes tomorrow. He will be in and out by Friday and then I really do get to buy paint! I know, I know, I’m losing it for sure. It is not like I am choosing crazy, out there colours either. We are going simple and keeping with the cool, calm feel that we have already tried to establish through the rest of the house. Shades of grey baby, shades of grey and I’m still pumped.

On the trying to outwit the cold weather front, it is really kind of hit and miss. On Saturday, I finally helped R and we sided another small wall near the back door. R also installed the outside wall sconces. They will be awesome. The siding takes forever and the chill was not helping cold fingers work very quickly. None the less, we got one small section done, with the goal of getting another done today. The weather gods felt that we were asking too much and instead it rained today. Not exactly working outside kind of weather. Oh, well.

We pushed on and R decided to replace the dry wall that we removed during demo in the basement bathroom and patched up the holes what were in the ceiling in the kitchen and living room. Other spaces that we will conveniently forget were touched by this reno.

I, well, I have nearly reached the end of my tolerance for the chaos that seems to have invading nearly ever single area of our house. While R was patching the ceiling holes, the mess in those spaces expanded. My mom said that it was the worst it had ever been and that is saying a lot. There is no safe or clean space around here so I sought to make one. I converted the media room back into the media room. Gone is the drying rack of laundry. Gone is the mountain of boxes, wrapping, computers, paper shredder, shoes, paper…need I go on? We officially have our media room back, I mean, I dusted and everything. There is one sane space in this house, I may move there.

So on to a new week, the taper, maybe the finishing of the soffit and the eaves trough company is booked in for Friday. Pretty soon I will go and pick up our flooring and maybe even take a nap!

Hey, did I mention that I’m going to go choose paint!!! Hahahahaha, progress!