I HATE PAINTING BRICK!

And that's all I have to say about that! Went to Lowe's this morning and spent $10 on a special roller that is supposed to help with really rough textured brick....for those of you who know me I am cheap and have a really hard time spending that much dinero on a roller - but if it works it will be so worth every dollar spent! Just to put it in perspective - it took me 6 hours to prime the brick yesterday! Ahhh! But the sun room will be finished today! Yay!

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together."

~ Unknown ~

The home improvements continue......

Well I just noticed that I have not updated on the Casa de Hawkins progress in the sun room at kitchen! We got the tile floors done that same week! Yeah! They took a little longer than expected, not because it is hard, its just so darn time consuming! The floors look AWESOME and we are super proud of ourselves! I am sooooooo excited because I am off of work for the rest of the week! (Thank you Jesus! I was about to have a meltdown and go insane!) So this week I plan on painting the two rooms, finishing baseboards, and all that other fun stuff! My mom has graciously volunteered to help me paint so I should get it knocked out in no time! Pics will be coming soon! :o) Have a great week everyone!

"The Energizer Bunny was arrested, charged with battery. "

~ Unknown ~

What have we got ourselves into!?! :o)

Sunday started day number one of the sun room & kitchen floor remodel! Saturday we went and got all the necessary supplies and yesterday started tearing things up! I love the demolition part of home remodeling! (Maybe not this one so much...) Once we got everything moved out of the 2 rooms (tons of heavy furniture - I'm going to be soooo sore!) we figured the indoor / outdoor carpet in the sun room could be pulled up in a jiffy......NOT! Every centimeter of that carpet was glued down by some super power glue and it took almost 2 hours to get it pulled off the concrete! Bran and I have both been a little under weather and neither one of us have super strength at this time and so it wiped us both out! But yeah we finally got it done!

The kitchen flooring was another monster! The previous owners put industrial strength linoleum on top of the homes 1950 linoleum and that was a booger to get up! Once we got half way through pulling up the kitchen floor Brandon and I looked at each other and said "what have we done!?!" Once we finally got all the linoleum up - we had to start scraping up the glue that has been there for over 50 years! So off to Lowes we go to buy floor scrapers! Thank goodness my wonderful bro-in-law Beeler volunteered to help! We all ended up with blisters on the palms of our hands (those hurt!) but we got all the glue up! Thank goodness it was not as bad as I was picturing it was going to be! The floors in both rooms have been all cleaned up and will have tile placed on top of them today! Woo hoo! I woke up SOOOOO sore this morning! It was a little hard to get moving! Here's to another hard day of home remodeling!

Kitchen BEFORE ~

Sun room BEFORE ~

Kitchen AFTER flooring was pulled off ~

Sun room AFTER flooring was pulled off ~




"You know you are old when you decide to put down tile floors in your kitchen instead of going to the beach for spring break!"

~Jess Hawkins ~