Another weekend project...

Have you ever used this stuff? It is AMAZING. We have pretty beat up kitchen cabinets in our new place, and in anticipation of our move next weekend, we wanted to clean them up.
Some internet searching led me to this. First we removed all the drawers and cabinet faces. I washed them all with Murphy's oil soap, and set them outside to dry. Then I polished each of them with Old English--what a huge difference!! It really makes scuff marks go away! Now, we still need NEW cabinets, but at least they are clean and shiny!
Check out the before and after pic:

Before: After:


In other news, the painter is amost done painting, the fireplace is coming along, and the floor guys are coming in to do the last coat on the floors on wednesday---all is on schedule for a saturday move-in....we hope!

Here's a fireplace pic from this morning:

The great grass experiment

When we bought our house, our front yard was a mess--grass hasn't grown there for what looks like years, and moss and weeds took over:

So we decided to dig it all up ourselves. This was a lot of work--more than I thought, and took almost 2 weekends! Here it is almost all torn up:

This weekend we planted some seed and covered it with dirt. We are watering everyday, and are hoping to have a new lawn.....pretty much EVERYONE is skeptical about it growing (except me).

We'll see......

Construction update

Here are a few before and after pics one week into our home fix-up! They are staining the hardwoods today, so we should have some new floor pics this weekend. We picked a darker color than was there before.

Carpets gone!

fireplace stove removed, floors sanded, fan gone, new lights

A special thank you to Gary Greenberg, who has been working alongside the construction crew to make everything perfect!