New Floors and Puppy Pee

The past three months have been super busy for us. That being said, we are about to make up for it with a massive download of information for you. Good luck.

December started off with a bang. We demo'd lots of nasty paneling and wallpaper in our living room and kitchen. With that came lots of dust, dirt, and hard work. We removed paneling only to discover that we only had 3/4 of a wall. Thus, we sheet rocked, textured, painted, and added wainscoting under the chair rail in our living room. It was a lot of work but we were able to finish most of it before Christmas came along. Which brings us to Christmas . . .

Christmas was another whirlwind affair with Ryan waking up at 4:00 Christmas morning. That same afternoon we left Idaho Falls to go visit family. We were gone until we had to be back for school and work.


Our Christmas loot.
Ryan loves his golf clubs!

Ryan made this canopy bed for me from bamboo poles. Isn't he creative?? It looks very good all finished.

The very same week we returned from our Christmas adventure, we decided to jump into our next big project. It was crazy, but we wanted to have our floors finished before we were to get our brand new puppy in February. So we spent a few days moving things out of our kitchen and demo'ing the floor. We spent almost two weeks living, (and eating) in our living room. We had a microwave, our fridge, and even our kitchen table in the living room while we completed the wood floors in our kitchen. Thankfully we received a deep fryer for Christmas (from my lovely sister and her husband) so we ate a lot of fried corn dogs that week. Just like most of our projects, it took a lot longer than we expected. We spent a total of two weeks on just our kitchen floors (there was more to come). We also discovered that fifteen hour days putting in wood flooring is a bad idea. Just try it, you will see.


Demo'ing the laminate flooring in the kitchen.
Our food lifeline for several weeks.Messy living room.

Nailing in the kitchen floors.

Ryan got kicked from the table saw. He wasn't wearing any safety glasses (tsk, tsk), thankfully it just got his lip.
Sanding the wood floors.Finished floors. . . much better.
Once we finished our kitchen, we were able to move back in(and eat food from real plates instead of paper plates). We then spent the next week packing all of our furniture from the upstairs of our home into our basement. It is amazing that we can fit everything we own into just a couple rooms. Next came the lovely task of sanding, staining, and applying polyurethane to our floors. Luckily we decided to take our time with this project. We had learned our lesson from the kitchen. We finally finished our upstairs the day before we got our new puppy.

Refinished wood floors in the living room.

So, we would like to introduce you to Dite. Well, Aphrodite. We were going to call her Aphro, but thought it would be too mean so we call her Dite, or just puppy, or bad dog. It really depends on how bad she is at the moment. But we love her. She is cute, even if she has already broken in our new wood floors with plenty of puppy pee, slobber, and mess. We hope you all get to meet her and her craziness soon.

Our new puppy on our newly refinished wood floors.
Puppy play.
We are currently moving our furniture back into the upstairs so if anyone feels like making a trip to Idaho, we would love to see you, and so will Dite.

Love

Ryan and Patricia