I can’t wait until our living room and dining room renovations are finished. It’s very slow going.
It seems like every time we get on a roll we find something that sets us back a day or two. For example, today we were starting to put the quarter round on and noticed that in one area the floor must not have been sanded properly when we originally sanded it after taking off the original baseboards and quarter round so the wood floor was raised higher in one area and lower in another. So that resulted in a couple hours of sanding. Now we’ll have to do some staining and polyurethaning before we can resume our work.
At this rate it’s going to be a few more weeks before we have everything done, but I can almost see the finished product. Well I think I’ve had the finished room in my head for years I’ve just been waiting to see it for a long time.
When everything is finished I’m going to rearrange the furniture. I’d also like to either replace the tv stand – which is really nice, but very heavy to move when cleaning, or look at tv mounting brackets and maybe just have the TV mounted on the wall instead of on a stand. I don’t know, I’ll have to see.
My dog still uses her crate and that’s a big eye sore in the living room too. I’d love to either move that to another room or pack it up for storage … but she really likes sleeping in it. I don’t know. I guess that’s another thing I’ll have to think about once the living room dining room renovation is finished.
I’m just happy that the reno is almost done. Yeahhhhhh!
All I know is you never should rush! Rushing now may cause more problems later. Take your time and enjoy the process)
And I would suggest you to hang your TV on the wall.
Think you might have more trouble than you thing getting the poor dog to move, sounds like it may be upsetting for both of you. But I know this feeling too as have had similar problem where my dog sleeps – but as yet have not had the heart to move his bed from the main living room.
That’s the cool part about renovating a home, it’s a very deep and slow process but it’s so worth it in the end. I love the feel of a new rennovatted home and I’m excited for you!
I know what you mean. I did my first floor in April. Everything went out.
New floor+heating, kitchen and all the important wiring went into the wall. (TV, PC’s even the power supply to the robotic vacuum
i renovate my house a year ago and the feelings were amazing when everythings were finished. Looking forward to hearing your feelings after you have finished all the stuff.
We actually just renovated our living room as well and changed up the windows. It’s been a little over two months and that change alone ended up giving up a nice year over year reduction on our energy bill. Besides that we redid the furnishings and paint and it totally changed up the look of the room. I’m sure your living room and dining room came along great as well!