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ABOVE: Me and Vanessa

BELOW: Vanessa enjoying Lake Superior

Leslie Wilson, Erin Sandstrom, Laura, Vanessa Henjum

Erin, lounging on the comfy rocks.

So, some friends of ours from College decided to come up for a 'Girls Weekend', and I forced them to do manual labor.

We painted the trim, walls and ceiling (not easy) and ripped up the carpeting on the stairs and upstairs hall.

Brian was good enough to take the kids to Roch for the weekend, which made our job a lot easier.

Before: Pannels were painted blue, walls had wall paper and ceiling had water damage, popcorn, and a few cracks.

Vanessa painting door.

Erin and I ripping up carpet upstairs.

Leslie removing wood/nails from where carpeting was nailed down.

AFTER: stairs had previously been painted black with white rises. We'll probably do the same when we have time.

Green walls and wood floors. Very dusty!!

ABOVE: Entry way. Door is completely white now (instead of blue pannels.)

more green walls and bare stairs. Notice pannels along stairs are now white instead of blue.

Before, the ceiling above the rail/stairway had popcorn and water damage. Brian and I scraped the popcorn off in one afternoon. Brian mudded it, and I painted it with Kilz. This was particularly hard because the ladder we had didn't reach and we had to get creative/dangerous.

This is the hall, looking out from the door to the Attic.