While I was gone last week, Jon called me about our floor installation. We had hoped to finish painting the ceiling and walls prior to putting in the new floors, but experienced some hiccups with the ceiling. Due to that, we wanted to push off the floors til November.

Problem: our floor installer got another contract that would tie him up through December.

We had to stick with our original start date: October 19.

That meant we had to bust tail this weekend to get the house ready. And it was no where near ready.

Friday afternoon this is what was delivered:

There were 71 of those boxes. Each one weighed 88 pounds. Thankfully there are only two stairs to climb up. Unfortunately, I am not able to lift 88 pounds like that, so I was little to no help in this endeavor. Jon and the truck guy hefted all of them.... Jon probably did half while the truck guy pulled them from the truck.

E.X.H.A.U.S.T.I.N.G.

Then we had to move all of the furniture from our bedrooms. All 3 of them. Into 2 bathrooms. We definitely need to be creative in our packing! We moved Dominic's mattress to the basement and we're sleeping on the guest bed in the basement. Everything else needed to be shoved (without damage) into the bathrooms. And they're not huge bathrooms, by any stretch.

So here's bathroom one, the kids bathroom.



Inside are 5 tubs full of countertop stuff, clothes, shoes, etc, curtains (all in the bathtub), 3 night stands, a triple dresser, a stand-up dresser, a small dresser and the hutch that goes on top of it, a hope chest (don't worry, Mom and Dad, it's on the top not getting damaged), a desk, and a mirror. Oh, and the bathroom door, which we had to remove. I think that's it, though I easily could have forgotten something. Oh yes, 2 lamps, a air purifier, and a garbage can. And several paintings.

And here is what you can see of bathroom two. It's slightly bigger, but only because it's square, not rectangular. I'm not sure it's any larger in square footage.



Inside are 2 chairs, 3 plastic tubs, a tall thin cabinet (don't know what it's called), an armoir, a triple dresser, a tall dresser, a television, vcr (yes, why do we have that?), a DVD player, our bed frame and rails, Amara's mattress, our mattress, several paintings. I think that might be it. I don't recall what else we shoved back there. The bathroom door!

And last but not least, our kitchen. This holds the great room furniture, dining room furniture, much of the flooring (2/3 of it), and the box springs that we couldn't jam into the bathrooms.



Whew! It all fit. That was Saturday.

Sunday was tearing up the carpets, removing the baseboards, removing the carpet pads. And then the fun part: tearing up the tack strips and the staples which held down the carpet pads.

Whoever invented those things just might be evil. :)

My hands are completely raw.

I think I spent 10 hours on Sunday stooped over with a pliers pulling staples out of the floor. My pinky literally has a blister.

I've never been so happy to go to work on a Monday!

But it's DONE!

Let the floor installation begin!!!