Time to attack the bedroom

You all know that we finished the kitchen, all but backsplash and fridge. Well, the more I work in the kitchen, the less I think I'm ready for a backsplash. Not yet. I still haven't found anything I really like and want to live with for years. I like that Light Sage paint on the walls, too. Rick and I have been talking and talking and I think I'm going to hold off awhile. I'm just not ready yet. We're still going to get the fridge in a couple of months.

So, on that note, we were going to tackle the bathroom next. But now we're considering the bedroom. The carpet is old, as old as the house, and it really needs to go. The cats have really done a number on it. It's ugly and old and just well....ugly. So we've been looking at hardwood floors now. The bedroom is really two rooms that we combined into one long room. Right now, it's painted in Light Sage with White Sage on the ceiling (I took that color from the bedroom and put it into the kitchen; we both really like that color.)

We're going to repaint the bedroom, keeping two walls in Light Sage....not sure about the other two walls, but we're going with something different. (My sister's nominal painting charge is a large pizza, a pan of sticky buns, and a case of Coors Light.   The Coors is to be drunk AFTER the bedroom is painted!)

So while we're doing the floor (I think Rick will do that as he did the floor in the computer room; he said hardwood flooring is easy, but tile is tricky), I'm going to order the new windows for the bedroom (there are two nice, big windows in there....southern exposure), and talk to our contractor about installing them. I do not want replacement windows; I don't like them. They really cut down on the amount of light coming in and I love as much natural light as I can get. These windows are the original ones, so they need to be changed. That should help our heating bill a lot, too.

Rick has already talked to the electrician about installing the ceiling fan; I bought one for Rick several years ago, but he never got around to installing the thing. It's never even been taken out of the darn box. And while he's doing that, we'll put in a new electric register, too, again to try to help with the heating bill.

We're going to work on the bedroom closet. It's a very deep closet, deeper than most, but it's completely unorganized. Because we have a ton of storage boxes and such in there, largely because of Christmas stuff, it's difficult to find room for clothing, so it's pretty much become his closet and I use the one in the computer room. Rick wants to work some ideas to make it more efficient. It will never hold both of our clothes, but it still needs to work better than it does. The door to the roof area is in the ceiling of the closet; we don't use it unless we absolutely have to, but we still need access.

And we're going to install new woodwork throughout. (When we renovated the computer room -- used to be our son's bedroom -- Rick put in new woodwork there and now we have new in the kitchen.)

Somehow, I don't know how, but somehow, that elliptical is going to the basement. It takes up a lot of space in the bedroom.

I really didn't want the house torn up again this year over Christmas, but I think that's what's going to happen.

Sounds like a big job, but worth it in the end. I had my kitchen cabinets redone in my old house, what a mess. And my kitchen was galley style, very small.
Most of my appliances are 20 years old (thank goodness I have a home warranty plan).
My roof is about that old.
Carpet and paint will need to be done.
All about the time I retire in eight years. .....

You're better off waiting until you find something you LOVE than settling for something that's just okay that you're going to get sick of in a few years.

The painting charge package for your sister sounds awesome! 

And it sounds like Rick has a major honey-do list going on.  Do you have hardwood floors in other parts of the house?

My carpet is only three years old and already my cats have done a number on it. Plus, I'm so tired of scrubbing the carpet. I researched SO many types of flooring, and I think I will opt for a heavy duty sheet vinyl that looks like hardwood. I was really against this years ago because it looked cheesy, but now...wow, these manufacturers have come a long way. I have a sample of the one I want and it looks just like hardwood with an embossed finish that mimics wood grain. The only thing that gives it away is the soft step. There's no tap like there is with hardwood. But there are no cracks, no seams, no carpet fibers to scrub...just spray and wipe. It's a dream.

You're projects sound like a lot of fun! I love reorganizing and redecorating!

Thanks! Part of the problem is that the bedroom and the bathroom are the last rooms to be done and we can't do them both at the same time. One time Rick thinks we should go after the bathroom; the next, he's talking about the bedroom. And we're trying to save up to put the garage/living room addition on, too. So it's been a struggle, trying to figure things out.

No carpet here ever again. (Unless we ever get to the point where we have no cats....and I don't see that happening any time soon.) Mollipop is a horizontal scratcher; she loves to sit on something and scratch, scratch, scratch, She actually has a 6-inch long tear in the bedroom carpet at the doorway from when she was a kitten. Molli is also the one who tore strips of drywall out of the bedroom walls when she was a kitten. That got ugly. I've never had a cat who tore drywall up....she was lucky she lived through her "terrible twos"!

We have a wooden floor in the computer room and it's the easiest thing to keep clean. A twice-weekly vacuuming, pretty much a nightly Swiffer when I'm scooping the litter box back there, and a twice-a-month Bona cleaning works well. About every other month or so, Rick will take the Bissell steam cleaner to the floor, too, when he's doing the kitchen floor. The kitchen floor is a vinyl tile and, so far, we're loving that. Easiest thing to keep clean and it never really looks dirty. Again vacuum, Swiffer, Bona does wonders.

I'm ready to put a hardwood floor in the living room and back the hallway, too. No more carpet.

That sounds wonderful, l'd love to get rid of the carpet in my house, but it's rented so l'm not willing to pay for it.

Speaking of the fridge, windows, skylights etc, have you checked for government eco/green rebates?

Andrya said:

 
That sounds wonderful, l'd love to get rid of the carpet in my house, but it's rented so l'm not willing to pay for it.

Speaking of the fridge, windows, skylights etc, have you checked for government eco/green rebates?

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Yes, Rick is checking on those things. I do know that our electric company will take our old fridge (and give us $35). We haven't decided if we're going to get rid of it or put it in the basement.

Sounds like fun, except for the work of course.

Some day we will get around to doing our dining room.

I'd love to tackle both our floors and especially our bedroom!  It's probably best to keep the carpet for now while we have small kids who play on the floor.  But I'd rather have wood and a few area rugs!

I've got fantastic dreams for our bedroom.  Fantastic!  It doesn't even have a color on the wall at this point.  DH hung some curtains that I love a few years ago; but I can't find bedding to match.  And I want to do it "right" because we won't be doing it again for a LONG time if we get to follow the plan in my head.    Right now we don't even have matching furniture!  Or a headboard for that matter!  I don't think there is one piece that matches another in there.  And our couches are wearing out so those will probably need replacing first.  Doing something for our bedroom just isn't a priority I guess.

I'd love to get rid of carpet. We have carpet in the 3 bedrooms (1 of which is used as the office). It's Berber carpet and supposedly was upgraded when we built the house. If this was an upgrade I'd hate to see what the basic carpet was. We have throughout the rest of the house. I really love wood floors -- "someday".

i took out all the carpet last fall. i had wanted to do the laminate flooring, the kind that comes in 4ft long strips that click together, a floating floor. we were at lumber liquidators and when the salesman found out we have 10 cats he said no way. if they have accidents and liquid sits on it for any time it'll ruin it.

he recommended vinyl. comes in 4ft long strips that click together just like the laminate. iput it in myself and i love it. and it is really easy to clean too. i will never have carpet again.