Ok... So I missed yesterdays post. We were actually pretty busy and I didn't get a chance to post all the things we did. The day started with a trip down to the Tile/Stone District of Orange County, better known as Anaheim's Ball Rd. The goal was to get some information on granite and find out about how much we will be paying for the stone to update our kitchen. After the drawings I posted from the last post, we had a pretty good estimate and felt pretty confident about our trip out. We got to one of the first places and met the nicest guy I think I've ever met in sales. His name was Mike and he spent around 45 minutes walking Katie and I around the showroom and teaching us about granite and the process and he informed us that he couldn't sell to us, because they were wholesalers and we needed a fabricator. But he continued to show us around and gave us a recommendation for the Glendora area and really was incredibly helpful. I told him how much he helped us and he responded with, "I have four kids, and I remember how lost my wife and I were when we were setting up our house, so when I see couples with the same look on their faces, I just want to help as much as I can." WOW! Didn't think that kind of thing existed anymore.
We did all kinds of things in the afternoon, but we decided that painting another coat of red on the bedroom wall and adding more paint to the rest of the walls in the bedroom would take care of something. We worked until around 7pm when Katie and I decided that we should try to lay out the stripes on the wall. Now, while that sounds easy, the technical things involved in figuring out how to do stripes was very... involved. We measured, and measured again, and then took that number and divided it by several different numbers to get an even number of stripes. Then we actually went to set it up, the measurements were wrong and that's not even mentioning how difficult it is to get a straight line on an 8 foot ceiling. We ended up going with 13 inch stripes, with only 2 exceptions in the whole room. We did this by measuring from the top, the bottom and in the center. This way the tape could follow the lines. This idea was far better than the crappy lazer level I had with a bowing lazer line... That didn't work out so well. Anyways... after Applebees (cuz we do that every Thursday night with our friends) we went back to the condo, and tried to get our first couple lines done. SUCCESS! The next morning we got up early, went to the condo and tried to finish the stripes... The result...
After about 2 hours of taping we took a break. Katie went to work and I went to lunch... I got back to the condo and began correcting wiring issues above the mantel... I think I've wired and rewired things about 12 times. Then I finished creating the tick marks that we used to guide the tape. Katie arrived shortly after and we finished taping and began to paint... We used the same color as before, but instead of a flat, we used a semi-gloss every other stripe. The result here...
We left again to meet with Katies grandfather and the rest of the family, he's not doing too well and it was a day full of agony and pain for the poor guy. We sat with him, met with the family and ate together. Around 9:30pm we got back to the condo and now had a considerable amount of extra work to do, because a friend is helping us move all of our large furniture and is able to bring the truck tomorrow at 8am... This wouldn't be that bad, except it means now that we have to have the walls done, the floor clean and the tarps up to move all the furniture in. We immediately started pulling tape off the walls like it was Christmas morning. Tape was going everywhere and with every strand we finally got to see the the fruit of our creation.... A BIG TAPE BALL! and GORGEOUS WALLS!
Finally... after the tarps were up, Katie engaged in a milestone of the house and performed her first wifely duties in the home... Thats right... She used the Swiffer... Now, she's not in pearls and she not in high heels, but a girl has to save something until after the wedding... Why buy the cow, if you can get the milk for free.
We ended the night by setting up our huge Zebra rug and getting all set up for the furniture delivery tomorrow... I can't wait.
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