We bought a House!

The New House!

It's taken over a year of searching and about 4 declined offers, but last Tuesday, the hubby and I closed on a sweet townhouse. It's in an L shape with a small screened patio and balcony in the corner. 

Now it's time to do a little fixing up prior to getting everything moved in. I really want to remove the popcorn texture from the ceiling. I watched some YouTube videos and picked up some tools at the hardware store. I decided to do a test run in the upstairs bathroom. 

Weeell that was probably the smartest decision connected with this project that I made. Our popcorn ceilings are painted with what seems to be a water resistant paint. The process involves wetting down the ceiling and scraping off the popcorn. Since the water won't soak in, the popcorn doesn't want to come off. I had more success removing the wallpaper as it got wet than the popcorn. Since the upstairs bathroom is not a priority, I am marking that as a failure and moving on. We will be keeping the popcorn ceilings.

The Kitchen Ceiling

Now we need to get a new refrigerator, the downstairs ceiling needs to be painted to cover some mis-matched areas from some old light fixtures that were removed before we bought the house, and the living room walls need to be patched and painted. Saturday our plan was to pick out the refrigerator and start on the patching and painting. 

Haha! Here's what really happened. We measured the living room to see if/how our shelves will fit. Decided we need another piece for the TV that happens to be on sale this weekend only. Picked out a paint color for the living room and measured for the refrigerator. 

The Upper Cabinet Removed

Off to the store. We had already tried to get a refrigerator, but we didn't have an accurate measurement and we were within our inch of margin of error. Sure enough the refrigerator we wanted wouldn't fit. It was 3/8 inch too tall for our space. So we went back home and ended up taking out the cabinet over the refrigerator. That did the trick! Now we have a space 83 inches tall and 9 feet wide in which to fit our new refrigerator. Oh, and some more patching and painting to be done.

OK, back to the store. We had one last look at our options and picked out a beauty. We blew up the budget on this, but I'm happy with our choice. It's a Samsung stainless steel french door model with LED lights and an ice-maker and water in the door. It will be delivered next week. I can't wait! I'll have cold water to drink again and can fix dinner at home instead of take out.

Next it is off to pick up the parts for the entertainment center/living room shelves. We originally were going with a $400 entertainment center wall that fits with our current shelves, but after going way over budget on the refrigerator and looking over the overall plan, we modified our plan and only spent about $80. Win! But that was 3 hour excursion. 

On our way back, we stopped at the hardware store and picked up the tools we need for the patching and painting project. We still need to get the paint, but that store was closed. by then it was after 7pm, so we dropped everything off and called it a day. 

I wonder how much I'll be able to get done Monday after work?