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Creating More Work for Myself

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Back on August 24th, we had this great idea that we were going to finally get some repairs done around our house.  We had water damage behind our stucco in front, plus the 8 foot picture window next to the water damage had a bad seal and had moisture between the panes.  And we decided that while we were making dust, we may as well touch up the dings and repaint our walls, and put in new carpet.  It has been 19 years of wear and it needed to be done. Here's what they found behind the wall... Here's how we lived for 3 weeks... Dedicated piano practicing Dust coated everything...it took all the self control I have to avoid deep cleaning until everything was done. Here's the extra work we had to do when the painting didn't go so well... Our paint touch up didn't go as planned, so I painted EVERY wall in our house over the course of two weeks. Here is a great skill I learned along the way... I learned to patch and sand and retexture the walls. ...