Sale Prep - Day 6

Okay, so after a weird weekend of sick kids and not as much work done as intended, the work started up in earnest again today.  Our amazing painter got to work and didn't stop.  He finally gave this astoundingly beautiful new staircase the finishing touches I've been waiting for.  SO BEAUTIFUL!

Okay, so he started, like he does every day, by carefully laying out the drop cloths and taping off and protecting what needs to be taped off and protected.  Awesome.

Then he works like a Tasmanian devil.  But, a really effective one, not a tornado one.  He's insanely fast and very, very precise.  So maybe not a Tasmanian devil.  Hummingbird?

The result is so great.

This is before.  It's kind of hard to tell, but that space under the apron is the same "white" as the far wall.  It's really more of a cream, though I can't tell you why.

But after, it is a beautiful light tan.  It's really bringing the whole house together and it is SO GOOD!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

Now, far be it from SPF and I to not do work of our own.  I know some of you may be disappointed that we didn't tackle this INSANELY IMMENSE job by ourselves, but you know what?  I can respect a good craftsman and I can respect how little time we have to get our house in order.  I don't think I could have even done the job he did, let alone with so much perfection.

That said, however, we have not been sitting idly by.  Hell, I'm still teaching through the end of this week!  So, don't think we are somehow now the idle rich.  WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Sorry, that one got my funny bone a little.

What we did do, while our painter and his assistant were taking mad swipes at finishing this job, was fix our light fixture.  It had a busted out socket.  We thought about replacing it, for a lovely price tag of at least $119 for a decent one at Home Depot.  So, instead, we asked the electrical guy if he could help us figure it out.  He did.  We dropped it down and took a look.

Then SPF fixed it, moved it 16 inches more into the dining room so that it will actually be over the dining room table, and hung it back up.  Which took not only the new socket, but a new chain and new wire long enough to make it to the middle of where we want the dining room table.  Piece of cake.