In the prime of its life...

I have just completed applying one coat of drywall primer to the walls of the basement and powder room. The ceiling will be a job for tomorrow. This week we purchased the paint for the walls of the entire basement. We decided on the color Muslin by Benjamin Moore, but instead of buying it at Benjamin Moore we had Home Depot match the colour in Behr paint. The reason we did this was for two reasons, cost and quality. I will agree that Benjamin Moore is a premium paint but we have had a lot of success with Behr paint as well.

Up to our ears in "dust control" drywall compound

We are at the stage of our renovation I like to call drywall hell. This is the stage after the drywall compound has been applied and is ready for sanding. The sanding is not as bad as it could have been if we were not using dust control drywall compound. This product is worth the extra money. It still creates dust, but the dusts seems to fall straight to the ground rather than floating around in the air and attaching itself to everything in your home.

We recently purchased a new Rigid vacuum. The key is to make sure that the filter and the bags are always clean. We discovered this the hard way when the motor on our last vacuum died due to the sheer volume of drywall dust we were cleaning up on previous projects.

I think the sanding of the drywall compound will be done bythis weekend and the I can start priming and painting the walls.

BC Home & Garden Show

www.vancouverhomeshow.com

I am really excited to visit the BC Home and Garden show next month. From March 2 - 6, 2011 there will be 425+ exhibitors where you can find the latest in new products for your home. This is going to give me so many ideas for our house, hopefully we can DIY most of them so we can stay on budget. The next project we want to attempt is renovating and repairing our sunroom.

Hunting for tile

We spent a good portion of our day trying to find some reasonably priced tile to match the beige ceramic 12" tiles we already have in our laundry room.

We did not have any luck today locating the tile which is alright since we are not at the tiling stage yet. We did have luck purchasing the lock set for the pocket door in our powder room. We purchased the King Star lock set from Home depot as well as the Irwin door lock installation kit.


www.irwin.com