{"id":784,"date":"2012-06-08T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ridiculousredhead.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2014-09-03T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T01:56:49","slug":"this-place-is-a-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ridiculousredhead.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"This place is a mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I have been rather scare around these parts lately. \u00a0It is not because it’s summer and I am sitting at the beach getting tan. \u00a0I don’t really tan. \u00a0In fact when I went to Vegas a few years ago, a guy came up to me and asked if I had any sunscreen he could borrow. \u00a0He then explained that he looked for the whitest girl in the place knowing I would have some in my purse. \u00a0Not only was he right but I probably had an assortment of SPFs to offer.<\/p>\n

So what have I been doing? \u00a0A lot. \u00a0The plan for spring was to finish making the hole of sand where the pool used to be into something, work on some furniture and plan a wedding. \u00a0Enough to fill my days for sure. \u00a0Then there was the moment we realized that my Uncle was going to have surgery and would be recovering for a long time so if we wanted to do the floors in the office it was now or never. \u00a0Who cares, just wait until later, right? \u00a0Except for this.<\/p>\n

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This is the pile of wood flooring. \u00a0In my sunroom. \u00a0That leads to the back patio. \u00a0If we want to use said sunroom or have a BBQ without stepping over large piles of wood we would have to move it. \u00a0Except there is no where else to put this much wood in a small house. \u00a0 So we changed the plan and set out to install the floors.<\/p>\n

The hardest part of the floor installation was the hangover as discussed here<\/a>. \u00a0My uncle’s friend Howard was awesome and sanded and finished it with no problems. \u00a0The floor is great. \u00a0The mess we have isn’t from the actually work but from clearing the room out. \u00a0We have furniture everywhere. \u00a0TB has set up the sunroom, using furniture I have yet to refinish, as an office. \u00a0He is thrilled about this by the way. \u00a0All of the books are stacked everywhere. \u00a0Everything is everywhere.<\/p>\n

What is that you said? \u00a0Why isn’t everything back in the room since I posted about the floor weeks ago? \u00a0Yes well two things added to this little mess. \u00a0One – I had to remove all the old trim to install the floors. \u00a0The paint was falling off in section and couldn’t be reinstalled without some kind of refinishing. \u00a0And if we put everything back now we will have to move it all again to reinstall the trim. \u00a0Two – this is the only room that my step father didn’t get to rewiring so the outlets are attached to cloth covered wire. Yay!<\/p>\n

I am tackling the trim while a licensed electrician works on the wires. I don’t touch things I don’t know about that can burn my house down. \u00a0 Tomorrow I will give you an in depth look into how the trim refinishing is going and why you may or may not ever want to take it on. \u00a0There have been times of joy and times where I was two seconds from throwing a sander.<\/p>\n

I will leave you this shot of some trim soaking up some paint stripper.<\/p>\n

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I know I have been rather scare around these parts lately. \u00a0It is not because it’s summer and I am sitting at the beach getting tan. \u00a0I don’t really tan. \u00a0In fact when I went to Vegas a few years…
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