Some renovations

Well this past weekend we started in on doing some renovations. We decided to start with the foyer because it is the smallest room (you know 11 x 11) :) so we could get an idea of what amount of time - money -materials and effort it would be to do some of the other rooms. Plus it would give us some sense of accomplishment.
We started by taking everything off the walls - the nail and screw anchors are all so old that they were made of wood - (they looked like corks for bottles) and they left HUGE holes. So we filled all the holes and Troy had also pulled all the electrical away from the wall (the wiring is all outside the walls due to the age of the house and make). So we filled that area as well to make the wall more even. We then took the crown molding (really just thin wood trim) down from the ceiling and took the nasty flourescent light down - we filled in more holes and then painted the entire celing. We let the spackling dry and then sanded it and reapplied a second coat to the really big holes. We then primed those areas before we painted the entire room a gorgeous color. It is called sauteed mushroom. Kinda a khaki - brownish color. While the walls were finishing up drying we got our new crown molding out - so it is ready to be cut and painted and then we started in on the floor. In one of the other rooms there is this fun green carpet but we pulled up a corner and there was beautiful carpet underneath. Not the case in the foyer....we pulled the carpet up to find - carpet pad and SECURELY placed carpet trim. Then as we pulled up that we found that they had layed vinyl tile over the hardwood floors. LET me rephrase they had GLUED vinyl tile over the hardwood floors. So we spent the next two hours pulling - jamming scrapers and putty knives - kicking them. Quite strenous and probably entertaining to watch. We have most of them up and will try and get the rest of the glue up tonight - put some crown molding up and maybe the second coat of paint. FUN FUN!!