The week of January 19th

I'm not sure if anyone is still out there is trying to keep up with what is going on but here goes. The week of January 19th was very busy.

Since flooring will be installed in our living room soon we decided to take advantage of it being empty and repaint the walls and ceiling. In addition we decided to add crown molding - while I am happy I won't have to cut in the walls I now realize it is causing a tremendous amount of caulking and puttying.

We moved all of the furniture from the living room into the dining room. Hershey isn't too sure about the new furniture arrangement. You can see him on the back of the couch.



With the living room empty I got started painting the front window. You can see the "before" and "after" pictures... this is the last window in the house that was stained. We had already painted all of the other window trim white in the rest of the house. What a difference it makes having this large window with white trim!!!



It took several coats to paint the front living room window so while that was drying I worked on caulking and painting the windows in the three season room and painting the crown molding we were going to put in the living room.



Once Friday arrived we were ready to paint the living room walls and ceiling. The boys were always near by for moral support.


Our biggest challenge for the weekend was the crown molding. We wanted to get that hung before the flooring would be installed on January 26th. On Saturday January 24th, Forrest realized he couldn't get the blade changed on his chop saw, the stop was broken and it soon became apparent that there was no way to change the blade - so off we went to get a new chop saw. We knew we were going to be using one a lot in the coming weeks to put in all of the baseboards.

Finally on Sunday - after getting the saw set up we were ready to start putting in the crown molding.


Crown molding starts going up - starting with the longest wall first.

The boys once again give us moral support.


Finally we work our way around the room and get the last piece in. If you have ever hung crown molding you know this is no easy feat.


Our efforts realized!


After a long day we remove the temporary carpet we had down (for the last eight years) so that the new floor can be installed tomorrow.


Denver is not too sure about removing the carpet.