Adventures in Renovation

Most all the painting is finished now. The bedroom is green with a white ceiling. Pictures coming soon. I've been taking it easy lately because I've been feeling really burned out and tired. I thought I could relax because I was going to get my floors refinished this weekend but now that's all totally fallen apart. So much for slackin' off.

Last week I was trying to nail this guy down to refinish my floors last weekend but he couldn't do it. So he told me he'd call me at the beginning of this week confirm for next weekend. Of course he never called and didn't return any of my calls, as guys in the business are famous for. And when he gave me the estimate he said next weekend should be fine. But that's how it goes. Everyone just tells you what you want to hear and then does whatever they want to do. It's hard to find people that are straight with you.

So I've been screwin' around for two weeks counting on this guy in my schedule. Now he's MIA and my backup floor refinisher can't come till August 22nd. That only gives me 5 days to put up the baseboards, get my electrical guy to come out and install the outlets, switches, and lights, and move all of Vicki's stuff into the house. That really screws up my schedule. So I've been calling around and I'm meeting another guy tomorrow morning. He was rated #1 in the City Paper's Best of issue, but that probably means he'll be plenty booked up and won't be able to get to work on my house very soon. Either that or real expensive.

Now I'm kind of contemplating refinishing the floors myself. After the tile grout fiasco tho, I'm really hesitant to tackle something that could potentially be much more difficult than I originally thought. And I know it could easily be one of those things that turns into several long-winded house blog posts.