My apologies for not blogging each day on the makeover project. But, the days were long and I was pretty beat when I got back.
On day's 2 and 3, putting in the floor turned out to be an incredible pain in the ass. But, the family's kids and gf's stuck with it and we got it done. Is it a professional job? No, but it's 15 times better than what was there before. Oh, and it was HOT.
Day 4 we worked on the kitchen, cleaned and got all of the furniture delivered. The kitchen was NASSY. But, we laid down some linoleum, put in a new stove/range hood and got it cleaned up pretty good. In a perfect world with $5k more in our budget we would have done a lot more in there, but we didn't. Oh, did I mention it was hot?
After all the blood, sweat and tears (and a little really unnecessary bitching from one of the gfs) the rest of the family came back. They were COMPLETELY blown away. Making a blind woman smile at how you redid her house is pretty satisfying. Plus, me and the guy who led the project both got in trouble with our wives for spending so much time on it, so we musta done something right.
We celebrated with some margaritas and laughs. I gave the two gfs a couple of remnants of the flooring as a memento.
It'll be nice getting back to regular work. As you can imagine, I'm a bit behind, but nothing serious (just a bit of insomnia about it--note the blog time).
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Next year have the wife help! She'll understand why you put so much time and effort into it.
My wife is weird about this kind of stuff. She's got that general liberal do-gooder heart, but when it comes time to DO something she'd rather not. They other guy's wife is WAY into it. She was scrubbing floors and shit last year when she was 7 mos pregnant. She just had her hands full with their three small kids.
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