Toddler graffitti!

My garage was tagged by babies!

before / after

new floors!

Damn it! I forgot to take more "before" pictures! When I ripped up the carpeting, this is what I found. They are much worse in person but they are being refinished right now! They are maple so I'm having them refinished to their natural color. Apparently maple doesn't stain well. I really like darker floors but gotta live with what I have.

more basement shots - the cage

before, during and after

Basement bathroom. Ya, I know - ick but look how much better it looks already!

I spent the day in the basement -- cleaning

It took like 2 hours to take apart this beast of cage that someone built in the basement. I still don't know what kind of animal it was built for but this thing could have housed a bear. There were probably 100 screws and washers that I had to remove. I then had to haul all the junk out of the basement and then proceeded to vacuum the WHOLE basement with my new shop vac. The best $60 I've ever spent. Tomorrow we are going to paint the basement walls and floor. More updates tomorrow.


















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was I voodoo-ed?

This was sticking out of a hole in my garage - - its dead.

details

even my doors are cool!

another treasure uncovered!

Ripped up carpet in another bedroom and found a square piece of floor had been removed and replaced with an ugly painted chunk of wood.













I pried that open and found this note:

surprises!

I ripped up the carpeting in one of the bedrooms and found this

I'm a home owner!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is the day!

2pm closing!