What We've Been Up To

It's funny, I feel like we have both been working our asses off and accomplished nothing in the last week. Yes, we have officially lived in our house for a week! Sunday, June 23 was the first night sleeping there, and as of 8pm on Monday, all of our things were in the house. I have to admit to feeling a little nostalgic for the apartment. *cue Bare Naked Ladies*

As much as I loved it, and for all the memories we made there, we knew it was only temporary.

In the house, we can really set down roots and make the place ours. Even before closing, we knew that the master bedroom would be the first room to get a makeover. I'm not going to say that the wallpaper in there was ugly--honestly, for wallpaper, it wasn't half bad. But it is wallpaper, in a baby blue flower pattern with years worth of cigarette smoke. One of the first things we did the day of signing was make our first foray into home renovation and begin to peel wallpaper. We were treated to a little surprise:

Jungle print UNDER the blue!

But that's not all folks, the lovely jungle print was only relegated to a single wall. The other three wall had this lovely paper:

Slow and steady wins the race, right?

As of tomorrow it will be 2 weeks since we got the keys, and I have to say that Ellie has been a wallpaper removing machine. Saturday night when we showed off the house to a friend, I discovered that we were down to the last layer of glue on 2.5-ish (I use really technical measuring tools) walls (pictures coming, I need to upload them). We are fairly confident that the paper will be all gone and the skim coat will be applied by the end of the week at the latest. I think we'll be able to actually set up our bedroom next week! *fingers crossed*

There is a lot of work to be done still, and maybe someday I'll get around to creating a Master List (a la Sherry & John at Young House Love), but I'm so thankful the house IS in living condition, and that all the "issues" are cosmetic.