More painting, ripping up floors, and cutting windows

Accomplished a lot this weekend!

First, our ceilings are finally finished being re-taped and mudded:

Now we have to paint the ceiling white, obvs.

Spare bedroom with finished walls and ceiling, getting carpeted this week:

Then, we cut a hole in the wall between the kitchen and living room. The goal is to make a window/breakfast nook. Here is how you make an interior window on a load-bearing wall:

Step 1: Cut a hole in the wall.

Step 2: Reroute any wiring.

Step 3: Insert a header

Step 4: Insert 2x4s on the sides

And voila! You have a window. It is being sheetrocked and framed in tomorrow! Will give you an update when I have one.

We also put a new ceiling in the bathroom. It is mildew/moisture resistant. This is not the finished ceiling, of course.

We also ripped up the linoleum floor out of the kitchen. It was hard.

Now we have lovely subfloor, ready for tiling:

Then, we painted the walls of our small bedroom/office with primer.

Finally, we primered the walls, closet, and floor of the master bedroom. Both rooms are now ready to be painted:

Here is the living room with its fresh paint:

Did a little spending this weekend.

-electrical supplies (receptacles, plates, lightswitches), bathroom ceiling vent fan, hanger boxes, corner bead for the interior window $87.54

-drywall screws and door stops $46.53

-4 gallons of primer $54.76

-charge for the 2 1/2 tons of debris we put in the dumpster: $162.85

-first month’s electric bill: $94.62 (I’m including it because we’re not living there/it was a necessary expense to finish the place)

So basically I’m in it for $4634.39. Good times!

I was trying to clean the ceiling fan this afternoon and snapped a blade off, so now I need to buy a new one of those. Blah.

We did get a nice leather couch this weekend, though. Yay!