No, it's not the inside of a Turkish prison...it's the nursery

I read the latest post from Denver Jen and I started to get nursery envy.  The nursery for their soon-to-be bambino is simply beautiful.  I thought I would share some pictures of our "nursery".  The quotes will remain whenever I mention this room until it no longer resembles a room where hostages are kept. 

Our recent match has apparently lit a flame under someone's butt around here.  We moved into our 70+ year old house in December.  The previous owners were an elderly couple who had lived here since the 1950's.  Much of the work looks DIY and the craftsmanship leaves much to be desired.  It is very obvious, yet understandable because of the previous owners' advanced ages, that the last updates to the house were done in the late 70's-early 80's.   We knew that going in.  Every room has to be gutted/updated.

Hubby started a new job in May, which has him very stressed busy, so the demolition/construction that started on the first floor pretty much came to a standstill at around the same time.  It's not going to get easier.  He works for a pr.o footb.all team.  With the footb.all season officially starting soon, he will not have much time to do any work around here.  On top of that, his parents will soon be moving and they need some odd jobs done around their place to get it ready to be put on the market. 

This weekend, he got to work tearing down the wood paneling in the soon-to-be "nursery".  Underneath said paneling were 2 layers of dried-out and yellowed wallpaper, circa 1951(?).  If I were a wallpaper anthropologist, that would be my guess.  I do know that this was the bedroom of their 2 daughters and the 1st layer had ballerinas on it.  It was kind of cute, in a [very] shabby chic way. 

We scraped all of the wallpaper off...did I mention 2 layers?....and pulled out a million nails on Saturday afternoon.  It was a mess.  The walls are plaster and bowing out significantly in one area.  Rather than tear the plaster out and drywall the entire room, hubby is going to try to salvage the walls that he can.  Don't you love the blood red carpet?  When I vacuum it, the clear cannister turns the same color!  Oy vey.   We looked under the carpet.  There is another carpet, in zebra print(?), and underneath that, seemingly very lovely dark hardwoods.            

We were going to go away for a 4-day weekend starting on Friday.  We decided instead to put the money towards the house.  We'll be spending our 4 days off working around here and hopefully getting some things done.  

 

Yesterday, he skim coated the walls.  I did some painting on the first floor.  Hubby had to go into work today...he's a un.ion carpen.ter and is working on Labor Day.  I think that's sacrilegious or something. 

He should be laboring here, don't 'cha think?