4th of July weekend!

Wall paper removal... do those three words just make you shudder? They were pretty intimidating to me until Monday when we took this first step in adding a bedroom to the basement. We got up at 7 and headed to Home Depot to rent a wall paper steamer. It  made the process so easy! I would recommend the $30 for a full day worth of rental to anyone removing wallpaper. Dave's brother Blaine and his wife Angela helped, and we really figured out a system to remove the top coat, steam the under layer/glue, and wipe down the walls.

For some reason only two of the 4 walls in the basement living room had wallpaper, one has wood paneling (curses!!!), and one is painted a neutral color (not exactly sure what to call it, but it's not white). So we spend Monday morning tearing off the wall paper, removing the nails from the walls, and the random trim box from the ceiling... We're still not sure why there was a random trim box, but we will paint over the affected area when we get into the painting.

Now we're trying to finalize our plans for the bedroom in the basement so we can start putting up the wall and building out the closets. One closet will be for the bedroom, and the other will be a storage closet for the basement living room. Can you ever have too many storage closets? I think not!

Besides our wallpaper removal we had a BBQ, went to the drive in and toured Mt. Timp caves. Since I'd never gone, and Dave hadn't been to the caves since he was about 7, we thought it would be great to see. It was very beautiful,  interesting and informative. I would say well worth our $7 a person. Going to the drive in really isn't my thing (especially because you pay for two movies and are up until 2:00 am to see the last one because you just have to get your money worth)... but the movies were pretty good (Toy Story 2/Prince of Persia).