There are no pictures for this post.  The renovations aren’t yet complete and the house is still turned upside down so there is nothing to take a picture of that is photo-worthy.

The dining room, living room, hallway, spare bedroom (aka The Closet Room), stairwell, and entrance are officially complete.  This means they are freshly painted, laminate flooring is installed, and baseboards and trim have been replaced.

Last weekend, we moved furniture and other items, including pictures on the walls out of the bedroom and started removing wallpaper.  After a few days of trying to convince the wallpaper to let go of its hold from the gypsum board, DH decided that we would move to plan B and put a new layer of gypsum board over top of the old stuff.  The repair that he would have to do to the old wall was likely more than putting up new boards.

So now we are living once again with furniture in the living room that does not belong there.  I live for the day that the only things in the living room are the furniture that belongs in the living room–no dressers, stacks of boxes of items from other rooms, and miscellaneous tools required for renovations.

And so I continue to sort through 33 years of accumulated “stuff”, hoping to live up to the “Less is More” mantra.  There is nothing like removing everything from a room and putting it into a pile to get you motivated to reduce the amount of “stuff”.  And yes, we celebrated our 33rd anniversary in the middle of this renovation on May 16.

And for my information only, the paint we used was from General Paint.

Closet Room and Master Bedroom:  Excalibur (ID CL 3173M)

Entrance and Living Room (one wall):  Ardmore Green (ID 8185D)

Balance of Living Room walls, Hallway, Stairwell:  Moselle (ID8184M)