Unearthing the Living Room

Now that the stairs and dining room have been sorted, its time to start work on the living room, aka the other half of the dining room. Currently this area is being used to store all of the furniture from both halves of the room. The removal of these items has, of course, been closely supervised. Under the couch was a veritable haven of crinkly balls, which are now scattered to the four corners of the house.

 

 
 

I think its possible the TV is now filled with ghosts. I'm hoping it'll still work after being vacuumed, dusted, and blown out. There will be some fingers crossed before its plugged in. In other news, this TV is huge, old, and has warped my TV stand, so it is probably not long for this world anyway.

 

The moving out took a few days and the help of friends. Once everything was rehomed to the clown room and other side of this room we started tearing out the carpet.

 

The supervisor is not so sure about the lack of carpeting. He now has nothing to stick his claws into. He has a tendency to slide around all over the new flooring because the poly is pretty slick still. When he hears food, its a lot like watching Bambi ice skate.

 

Zulu's efforts at supervision were rewarded with a double rainbow over the neighbour's house. What does it MEAN?!

 

Stair tours

 

Zulu would like to take you on a tour of the new stairs.

The tops are white, the bottoms are black. They used to have yucky beige carpet, now they are a fancy ombre with gold trim.

 

 

You will, of course, forgive him for not wanting to go all the way to the bottom. It's such a lot of work, this tourguiding. Perhaps it deserves a snack?

 

 

 

Overall, he finds himself ridiculously proud of all of the transformation. You are proud too, he just knows it. You may now reward him.

 

Dining Room Dunzo

 

Update: I forgot to link the stencil I used, which is here at istencils.com. I really enjoy their designs, but the white stencil makes it slightly harder to work with on the floor than the clear ones at Cutting Edge Stencils, which is what I used on the downstairs hallway. It is much easier to match the pattern using the clear mylar type of stencils. Cutting Edge often (every 2 months) runs 20% off discounts, join their mailing list to get the codes if you are interested in doing a project like this. I have no affiliation with either stencil-seller, and they both make good stuff. There are probably more out there as well if you can't find a pattern you like with those two.

It's finally done!! Many layers of sealant are drying as I type. I put six coats of poly over the top to help protect the painting from claws and stilettos, both of which Pharaoh has been known to rock on occasion.



 

The design spans almost the entire dining half of the room, and will hopefully create the feeling of a separate space. Here's the before, during, and afters of four months worth of work if you want to make a flipbook:

 

 More if you clicky and want to see 'em!