igotaneed4speed
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Been busy plugging away on the house still, I did the back yard when I first got it, re-soded the yard and a lot of clean-up. Been working on the inside now as the weathers getting colder.
Tore the carpet up in the living room and found some orginal oak wood floors.
Floors were pretty nasty had a lot of what looked like spill stains on them, back walls (plaster ehh) were cracked on both sides of the fireplace from the house settling. Had to gorge it all out and patch/tape all the joints.
Put in can lights since there was no lighting other than lamps and the fan light in the room
Tore all the trim out and killz primed all the walls to hide any stains an patch work.
Painted the ceiling a high gloss to break up the light more
Started painting, I have painted the walls three times the "tan" color and every time the paint color was wrong. I was buying 5 gallon buckets from lowes and they couldnt get the color to match the swatches. Got pissed and left it alone but the color is still off. It is suppose to be Sand stone by Behr but has turned out purple, then pin and the third time it was almost sandy but has a fleshy hue to it. I gave up @ $180 bucks for 5 gallons of paint I got sick of spending money, took the remaining paint back to Lowes and they refunded me for all three of them. Now I just need to actually re-paint it again but haven't been able to find the effort to do so.
Borrowed a floor sander from a friend and re-did the floors.
First coat of stain down.
Second Coat down
First coat of poly down, put down four coats total.
Tore the carpet up in the living room and found some orginal oak wood floors.
Floors were pretty nasty had a lot of what looked like spill stains on them, back walls (plaster ehh) were cracked on both sides of the fireplace from the house settling. Had to gorge it all out and patch/tape all the joints.
Put in can lights since there was no lighting other than lamps and the fan light in the room
Tore all the trim out and killz primed all the walls to hide any stains an patch work.
Painted the ceiling a high gloss to break up the light more
Started painting, I have painted the walls three times the "tan" color and every time the paint color was wrong. I was buying 5 gallon buckets from lowes and they couldnt get the color to match the swatches. Got pissed and left it alone but the color is still off. It is suppose to be Sand stone by Behr but has turned out purple, then pin and the third time it was almost sandy but has a fleshy hue to it. I gave up @ $180 bucks for 5 gallons of paint I got sick of spending money, took the remaining paint back to Lowes and they refunded me for all three of them. Now I just need to actually re-paint it again but haven't been able to find the effort to do so.
Borrowed a floor sander from a friend and re-did the floors.
First coat of stain down.
Second Coat down
First coat of poly down, put down four coats total.
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. I ditched a lot of receipts on my old house back when they closed the tax break for home improvements. A few years later I ended up renting the place for a few years and classified it an investment property. EVERYTHING I ever did to it or spent money on (including property taxes while it was a rental) was applied is one way or another to offset gains when I ended up selling it. I short sold it, claimed the losses and took home 4x my normal tax return that year. It would have been more if I could have documented some of the other things I chucked the receipts for. I lost $$ overall, but the tax return at least offset a significant portion of the loss. 
