CD's Room

THE "BEAUTIFUL" GREEN CARPET AND THE MUCH BETTER CONCRETE FLOOR

As I said we are doing some work in the house. This past week Monday and Tuesday we had my guys create a continuous cornice across all the sliders in the great room facing the lake. This is about 30 feet of windows and they have had vertical blinds hung since we did the massive addition about 20 years ago. I know this is not the current "look" but they really really do the job in the summer. The windows face west and the house gets very warm in the afternoons which is great in the winter but not so good in the summer. So the new cornice was to add some chicness and a slicker line. I plan to hang drapes between the windows, giving an even more continuous integrated looked.

As usual my guys Bobby and Maverick thought I was slightly nuts. I had designed this when we were last on the OBX in November and had sketched it out for CD and my good friend V. who is also an avid home decorator/crafty woman (she made three awesome stained glass windows for the house) They both thought it was a great idea. As usual when Bobby and Maverick (yes that truly is his name) were done, they were over the moon with themselves. Maverick kept standing and looking and saying "That really looks good, that really really looks good." Yup, the kid still has it. No pix on this. Shooting against the windows washes it all out.

Then they moved on to the main event. The floor in CD's room. Now, this involved the long planned clean out of the big walk in closet back there. This had followed a week of carting books (9 boxes) to the library for their annual book sale in order to clean out my study in order to rearrange the furniture down there. Any how, 6 boxes of clothes, 4 large bags of bedding, and 24 pieces of clothing on hangers went to Goodwill as well as the 20+ year old Nordic Track. Then moving as much furniture as possible into the closet and some into Mr.P.'s study. Saturday we went to Lumber Liquidators where we got the bamboo flooring which involved an hour trip each way. The trip back was tense-ish because we had a heavy load. I wanted to go to this neat restaurant but we couldn't find it. Returning Mr.P. thought the wheels were over heating and we stopped to check that out. Nope, false alarm. Great price on the bamboo. We're ready to rock and roll. Bobby and Maverik got the bed out and into Mr.P.'s room, Mr.P.'s treadmill into the closet as well as an L shaped book case my dad made me when I was a little girl. So, the room's cleaned out. Next step, get the beautiful (I am totally kidding here) sculpted dark moss green carpet out. As you can see above the concrete itself is a huge improvement. Thursday Mr.P. had to make a flying trip back to Lumber Liquidators for mastic and the moisture barrier. Friday AM the moisture barrier went down. Monday we start laying the floor. YES!!!!

Other work done. White crown molding to cover the brown skimpy crown mold. That in itself was a huge improvement. The baseboard heating cover painted white and new white baseboard, deeper and more substantial. The danger for me is to not stop once I start. I'll probably want to replace the doors in there especially the closet door. But, with the floor done its the last of the truly ugly parts of the old section of the house. More on this later.

Just want you to know that right now nearly every room in this house has something stuffed in it and or out of place due to the weeks of work. Mr.P. is huddled in his study surrounded by a stack of mattresses and bits and pieces of furniture. Sorry sweetheart.