Goals for the weekend? - update with results!

[wawa]

My progress:

1. Cut all access holes for cleanouts and valves in laundry room. done!
2. figure out what needs to happen to fix the busted hose bib outside of the laundry room and fix it.  Need a part not available at lowes/HD.   Will acquire this week.
3. drywall repairs as needed.
4. 1st coat of paint. - started in that I put the entire sw sample can on the walls - which was about 1/3 of the room.
5. get a solid start on trim. finish at least baseboard trim and door trim?

The next weekend is finish trim, nail holes, sand and caulk, and then paint on trim and walls. And hang cabinets. Maybe. At least put w/d and everything else back where it belongs.


aaaaand that's it.  MH didn't even THINK about starting the trim.  I spent all day Saturday wanting to strangle him trying to prod him into just getting his butt in gear and all we got done was picking the color (I'm going with the salmon.  I'm asceered.  I might regret this), getting the paint tinted and cutting the holes in the drywall.  I need him to pull everything away from the walls so I can touch up the dings and crap in the drywall, and then actually get the first coat of paint on.   But I don't really want to ask him to disconnect my w/d until I'm sure that he's going to get the trim done shortly after the paint is dry so I can finish everything up and get the w/d back online without an entire week (or more)  in between.

blah.

[r]

What I need to finish:

1.I need to do paint touch ups in master bathroom

2.Re hang mirrors in there

3. Assemble cabinet to go between the mirrors

4. Paint over patches in the powder room ( I removed a towel bar and ancient toilet paper holder (relocated new ones)

5. Second coat on upstairs hallway paint

6. Hang Curtains in living room

7. Work on ceiling patch in foyer( I just can't get this one part to look flush I think I need to remove light and go wider in that area with the mud.. Ive been avoiding this job so much)

What I want to do:

1. Start designing new landscape for front yard. I want to bring it down alongside the driveway and around mailbox.

2. Remove fallen tree limbs and clean up beginning of forest behind house - make it more visually appealing

3. Start stripping Deck- might be too cold for this still supposed to be in the 50's ideal is 60+ I think.


Plus we power washed the front porch and garage because it was looking gross from the winter not so bad but didn't get as much done as I wanted needed. Spent plenty of time outside so that was nice  

[emoflamingo]

I did not die.

My car almost did! The two fans died and it overheated in my brother's driveway. Then, he tried to loosen the cap to let some steam out of the antifreeze and it shot 20 feet across his yard and my car pulled an "Old Faithful" and I had no antifreeze. It took my dad and brother 2 hours but they think the fans dying caused an air bubble in the water pump that eventually got through after 4 gallons of antifreeze and a lot of engine revving. Thank goodness it happened there and not elsewhere. I made it home after 1am Sunday not long before H made it home from Colorado.

[mrs.jacinthe]

1. Laundry.
2. Steam clean the carpet.
3. Make the spring wreath.
4. Touch up paint on the kitchen door.
5. Scrub the bathrooms (eww).
6. Decide on paint color for the master bedroom.
7. Touch up paint in the kitchen.

Womp womp.

We discovered mid-day on Saturday when we pulled the chest freezer away from the wall (as I was getting ready to paint trim in the kitchen - ALSO not on the list) that there's been a mouse in the house (we've set traps but haven't caught him/her/them yet, so it's possible it was a while ago).  SO the rest of the weekend was a big pile of "empty cabinet, look for evidence of mouse, clean cabinet, put things back/re-organize".  We didn't find any evidence that it had gotten into the cabinets, so that was good.  It wasn't an unproductive weekend, but dang, I was hoping to do so much more.

[TBM]

Mar 20, 2015 8:39:19 GMT -5 TBM said:

1. Stain the front fence. I really wanted to get the front fence
stained today, but my hand is sore so maybe DH and I will knock it out
one morning. It would go much faster with two people, so that one could
roll on the stain and the other one could brush it through.





2. I need to buy boards and stain for shelves we are putting in the guest room. We're going old school with shelf standards and brackets,and hanging the standards is on the list for tomorrow too.  Not stained, but cut to size and ready to sand.  Staining can wait.

3. Donate. Donate. Donate. I have some upholstered chairs that I have been wanting to reupholster, but they are just too big and don't work here, and a mid century (not modern) dresser that has been painted badly,that I don't want to put the effort into stripping or selling, and they need to go. We have a drop off center for Goodwill nearby and we have a scheduled pick up from another charity this week so we will see what we can purge this weekend.

We didn't get to Goodwill, but I can drop off the chairs any time.  We have a good start on the stuff for pick up, and I still have time to purge more before they come.

[AmyRI]

Lack of progress:

Everything revolves around turning our guest room into a room for DD.
- Have friend pick up full size mattress or deliver it to her (sold the bed itself last weekend, but they didn't take the mattress. Friend needs a full size for her DS's bed, so she's going to take the mattress! Makes me really happy not to pay $10 to have it rot in a landfill.)
- Go through all the books, junk, and craft supplies currently in that room. Create sell, donate, rehome (within our house), and trash piles and start dealing with them accordingly.
We got through about half of the stuff in that room, but plenty more to go.
- Disassemble the desk that's in the room now and store parts for future building projects. Desk has been emptied but not disassembled - no room to take it apart until the mattress is gone.
- Make concrete plans for the closet we need to build in that room.
- Make a plan and buy light fixtures to adequately light that room.
- Bonus points: start plaster repair (or removal and drywall) on the cracked area of the ceiling.
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Nothing else got done from that list.
We did do a bunch of small things:
Hung a tie rack in our closet
Hung decorative shelves in DS's room
Rearranged furniture in DS's room so his new twin bed fit better. (Not H&G related, but we also went through all his clothes to see what fits and sorted according to season, so now his room is completely organized.)
Hung a canvas print over our bed.