Tom rented a floor sander to start to sand the floors. While he will do most of it with this machine, he will have to get another edge sander to finish the edges. While he sands, I am the holder of the cord. Now that is a very boring side job but it helps to not worry about the cord, apparently a hazard to using the machine.
While we were busy with that on the inside, we had Ryan and Walter Peters (a father and son team) install eaves-troughs on the house. Many people don't have eaves-troughs on their houses. No real reason why, but very common, at least on the many houses we looked at. Either way, we got them done and another box checked off of our list. Thank-you Ryan and Walter!
When the sanding was done we took the machine back to St John and then came back home to wait to go pick up our piano.
Wait! What? A piano?
Ok let's backtrack a little bit. While we were still at the campground, I was regularly reading the Sussex Facebook buy and sell page and happened upon a free piano. I showed it to Tom, who at the time agreed it was an awesome piece to repurpose into either a coffee bar, or desk or something. Maybe even a wine bar. We weren't sure but we would do something with it. I contacted the young woman, Areil and asked if we could pick up after we moved into the house. It wasn't a problem and I was pretty excited to get this new piece. It never dawned on me why no one else had offered to take it.
So today was the day to pick it up. I had contacted Areil and we arranged that we would come when her husband was home from work. She had mentioned that the piano was heavy and we would need some strength to load this on to the truck. Okay so if there is Tom and I and her husband that should work right? It turns out that the piano weighs over 600 pounds. There was no way I could help. But the 2 guys got it on the back of the truck and we knew that we would have to disassemble the piano before we could get it off the truck. No problem, there are plenty of YouTube videos for that! Thank-you Areil and her super hubbyman!
We got home and made plans to work on it on Friday.
October 1 Friday. We need a break! I shopped on the internet, caught up on some email, and other computer stuff and we watched our new TV. Tom assembled some other furniture pieces. We had some chairs to sit on, and a table to eat. Things are getting done!
October 2nd Saturday. It is raining again, so no working on the piano. Cupboard doors and drawers and the hardware was removed from the kitchen cupboards and Tom started the sanding. There is dust everywhere! Goodbye brown cupboards and backsplash. Yes we took down the backsplash. I never realized until recently that I have issues with repetitive geometric patterns, things like chevron, repeat circles, squares, and backsplash rectangles. I am not sure what style of backsplash we will put to replace it. I've never had a backsplash before. I don't know if I am able to commit to a backsplash. I think I will just stick with soap and water for now.
There was so much dust, we picked up a pizza and ate in the basement in front of the TV.
October 3rd Sunday
Tom started to dismantle the piano, it is quite an ordeal. There are many cool pieces that could be repurposed for something. We are saving all of the bits and pieces. The piano is starting to look like a very industrial piece and we are starting to put some ideas together about the basement family room. Getting a steampunk, industrial feeling coming to us. This could be a seriously fun project!
While Tom worked on the piano, I attempted to find stuff to fill 2 orders I had from my website. The orders were long overdue, I am grateful that my customers are so understanding. Since I had no luck at finding the stuff, I instead decided to take a video of the piles of stuff that will someday be my art studio. The video has been linked on FaceBook, but here is the link to it again if you missed it.
My plan is to share my methods and madness of organizing and rebuilding my studio.
Sanding the floors
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