The Nursery

Yesterday morning started off pretty early for Sarah and I. We both got up around 5am, she headed off to hit the garage sale scene with my Aunt Denise and my sister Vicky, while I stayed at home and continued to remove base board in the nursery.

Earlier in the week i started removing the baseboard but only managed to get one piece off. But with all the people coming over to help i thought at least i can get the baseboard off before they arrive. At about 9:15 Dave and Kathy arrived, I only had 1 piece of baseboard left at that point so i figured i had made pretty good progress.

Dave immediately started taking out the old light fixture and installing the ceiling fan, light kit, mounting bracket, and new control switch. While Kathy and i removed the final piece of baseboard. She also pulled up the carpet and under pad, and her and i removed all the staples in the floor from the under pad and nail strips used around the perimeter of the room to hold down the carpet. Dave wrapped up installing the ceiling fan just as Kathy and I finished pulling up all the nails and staples.

After that we taped the edges and remaining borders in the room. Sarah and my sister Vicky arrived just about then but they started sorting out all of Morgans baby clothing that mama has bought for her already, and let me just say there is ALLOT! While garage saleing Sarah/Vicky got some pretty cool stuff including of course more clothing, a Tupperware organizer drawer and a "fly net" thingy that goes over the crib which will look really neat, and "Girl up" the room a little bit. Dave then busted out his new sander and sanded off some of the baseboard gunk that was left on the walls. At this time Sarah's parents and Aunt and Uncle showed up to help. Lonnie Sarah's uncle brought a nice table saw with him which helped make the floor installation allot faster!

After that it was time to start priming but we all decided to leave messages on the floor for Morgan or whom ever owns the house when that floor gets pulled up. Once that was finished we needed to make a Lowe's run, and pick up a few things. Then we ordered pizza. While waiting on the pizza Kathy, Vicky and Chuck started priming the room.

Once that was all finished and dried, Lonnie stated that he used to be a painter and volunteered to paint the room. We all just watched in amazement while he painted the entire room in about 30 minutes and it looked AMAZING! And we all learned a few things about paint too.

Mean while in the garage, Sarah her mother Joyce and Aunt Gay started refinishing a shelf my Grandpa Smith had made for me when I was little. I'll post pictures of that soon but it looks great they really did a wonderful job of giving that shelf a whole new life.

Back in the nursery; Dave and Kathy finished painting the trim, corners and closet. About 10 minutes after that was done we started removing the painters tape and put the outlet covers back on. Then we let the room dry a bit more as the next part was installing the new pergo floor.
At about 5:30pm we all begin contemplating the best way to install the pergo around the door frame since it wouldn't fit completely underneath it. Just in the nick of time Vicky's husband Jamie our resident handy man showed up with all the tools and know how to install the new floor. Then with his guidance the floor installation actually began. Many saw cuts, dust, beer and extra pieces of pergo later the floor was done and looks amazing. it was now about 10:30pm and everyone was ready to go to bed.

Now it's Sunday morning the Rams are going to be on in a few hours and I'm back to where i started... i have to reinstall the baseboard... But i cannot complain one bit because that room looks great, everyone was extremely helpful and without them this room wouldn't have come together so well, so thanks to everyone that was here yesterday!

The furniture should arrive in the next week or so to finish off the room, and now Sarah finally has a place to put all those clothes!

-James

P.S. Check out the pictures of the remodel on the right of the screen.