And the clean goes on...

The basement was quite the undertaking. Lots of miscellaneous junk and stuff to be organized, garbaged and cleaned...and I was up for it! I spent most of the first week just cleaning out the thousand and so square feet of cemented dungeon. Have you ever tried to sweep out a concrete basement? It is crazy! To prevent tasting and smelling dust for the next year, I wore a mask and furiously attacked the dubious duty. I can now officially be called a maple bug undertaker. Harmless little creatures they are, but small in number, they are not. But look at the pristine condition of the floors now!

Well, after the overexposure to the greyness that is the basement, I decided to move onto more creative and girlie things...creating beautiful guestrooms with our new linens! Now, this is what I had to work with. A bare queen bed, a dresser and a small side table. With the miracle of new linens, a few pictures, a new lamp and an area rug...tada! Gorgeous! So, any takers? We received our vendors license, so you're free to come on down and rent a room...but the bar stool will have to wait.

Onto the hallways. They were outdated, with a pinkish monstrosity of a colour, and wallpaper border to boot. So I had to morph into a stripper...wall paper that is! After my day of stripping was done, the next day held in store the refreshing of the paint colour...to a lovely tan. Glenn was the ceiling painter by default (he's tall, I'm not!) and did a fantastic job of that task! Painting/stripping day 3 came along, and it was time to rejuvenate the door frames. A rich and luxurious chocolate brown was administered to the ailing frames...and the hallway face lift was almost complete! Tarbie, our beloved feline presence in the hotel, deems the hallway quite aesthetically pleasing for lounging. We are now on the hunt for some baseboard wood to replace the wallpaper border for a nice finish. More to come! Cheers, The Stripper.