Home Improvement

All my life I have been anti-carpet. I just think it smells, hard to keep clean, and just doesn't look pretty. JUST MY OPINION!! So I convinced Bill that his house is about ten years old and needs a little face lift. Not to mention two children and two dogs have definitely made their mark on the floors. So he agreed to let my imagination run wild. I decided to start in the front master bedroom and the huge front living room. (A huge task.) We started by moving out ALL of the furniture and taking down all wall hangings. Then Bill ripped up the carpet, hauled it off to the dumpster, and removed all things underneath. We won't talk about that part!Scraping all of the paint off the floors was LABOR INTENSIVE! We used razor blades and slowly knocked out the master bedroom. It was very exhausting.After a whole month the bedroom was completely clean and ready to be stained. Then I decided oh we need to paint the walls. We decided on a sky blue for the three walls and a nice grey pewter for our accent wall. Every one's reactions have been mixed but WE LOVE IT!Then we hit a wall. We lost interest, Bill got sick, the boys came to visit, and the summer passed us. We've been living in an unorganized house, sleeping in the living room, and crammed on one side of the house. It was time to finish. I went out with the girls and this is what I found when I got home. Bill and Mark had finished the living room.... IN ONE NIGHT!!! Well I'm excited to announce that Bill and I have left town for Port Aransas and the floors are getting stained. I cannot wait to get home to see it. We couldn't decide on a color but when we were cleaning the concrete we used water and we kept commenting on how we liked the color of the plain ole' concrete..... so that is what we did. The concrete will be cured and sealed without a color. We shall see what happens. I will let you know what we find.....