We started to do some of the things around the house that we wanted to get done before we had to move in. One of the first things we wanted to do was paint the entire house in hopes of removing some of the oder from the previous owners…. who smoked like chimneys.

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We started to do some of the things around the house that we wanted to get done before we had to move in. One of the first things we wanted to do was paint the entire house in hopes of removing some of the oder from the previous owners…. who smoked like chimneys.

This home has been full of little surprises (not the good kind) that I will get into in later posts. As you can see from the photo, the walls in the family room were just full of color. I have to give the previous owner some credit for experimenting with dark colors… What you can’t see is that around the door frame it’s peeling and you can see the purple paint under it. Needless to say, the entire room is being painted… but not without a nice thick coat of KILZ Stain & Oder Blocking primer. Before we started to prime we of course washed all the walls and the TSP… it was amazing how dirty the walls were.

Some other surprises in this room were:

• There were 3 different types of baseboards running along the bottom of the walls… some were made of wood, some out of particle board, and some out of foam.
• The person who installed the floor boards and the half-round crown molding loved their staple gun and enjoyed cocking WAY too much…
• The big surprise, MOLD was found at the corner of the wall and sliding glass door… where the carpet is peeled back. It looks like when it rains, the run off from the roof hits the patio and splashes back onto the door. This then runs down and seeps in. We are going to have to cut out a 6″ square of dry wall and replace it. You know, to be on the safe side. Also, I’m 95% sure that when we install rain gutters, it will help to eliminate the issue.

More To Come!!