So pretty much immediately after we signed the papers to close on the house, we packed up our "truck" with cleaning and painting supplies and headed over to the house to start surveying and fixing the mess! In the first two weeks, before we moved in, we managed to paint every room in the house except the kitchen, dining room, family room and laundry room, due to pending renovations.
One of the first "demolition" items was taking down the wood paneling wall in the family room. For some reason, the previous owners had screwed in hooks and bars (exercise stuff?) all over the door inside the family room, so along with the paneled wall came off all of the trim. It was a good excuse for Robbie to get a crowbar, and then he just went to town! (More about the continuing tool escapade later!)
Another thing that was to go were the masses of curtains, everywhere! Those were actually harder to get out of the wall then the wood paneling, and some took the wall with them!
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| A "gift" from the owners! The gold chair on the right actually plugs into the wall! |
We found a lot of "gifts" left from the owners, and are continuing to find them, actually. One of the best was an electric knife still in its original packaging, and actually, probably better than the one I have! (Some of the worst were dirty socks and rags in the laundry room! Eww!)
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