Household Projects:UPDATE

Update: Ok, so we've have sunk our teeth into projects and we're off!
1. We have chosen new granite counter tops with under mounted sink and extended island to be installed on 11/18 (as it turns out, granite is cheaper than other solid surfaces! Who knew?)
2. Removed wallpaper boarder in the kitchen today while kids rested (bye, bye fruity boarder!)
3. Got Fletcher the bunk bed he has wanted for about 2 years over the weekend and got it put together on Saturday. Fletcher is lovin' it and his room is now his favorite place! He didn't want to leave the house on Sunday.
4. Have gotten rid of at least 6 pieces of furniture that we had been saving for "our next home" (that in the mean time was taking up valuable space in our current one!).
5. Having upstairs carpet cleaned on Friday.
6. Collecting estimates on flooring installation (downstairs), painting (entire interior), and lighting (2 new pendants over the kitchen island).

To save $$ we will be doing as much of the work that we can ourselves like tearing out the old counter tops and tearing up the old carpet and vinyl downstairs. I'll keep you all posted and will add photos of progress when we have some. Wish us luck!


I have wanted a new home for a while now, but to no avail. So my latest scheme is to do some stuff to our current house to make it more livable. We've been here 8 years and things are ready for repair/replacement but we've continuously said that we'd wait and do all the fixing-up when we were ready to sell, but now I think we should go ahead and make plans for projects so that we can enjoy the new stuff, too. So here is my wish list of things to do around the house:
New floors entire downstairs: laminate hardwoods
New carpet on stairs and upstairs: frieze or berber
New paint in entire house: neutral golden shade and white trim
New kitchen countertops: solid surface with integrated sink and larger island surface
Fletcher needs a real bed (sleeping on a futon and has wanted a bunk bed for a long time) and Ed and I need new bedroom furniture as well (same stuff I got when I moved to Charlotte in 1994)

Ed says we will not take out any kind of loan to do any of this which means it will happen very slowly. I'll keep you posted. Who knows what order things should be done in? Should the floors be before the paint, etc.?