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"The start of the president's second term and the formation of a new Israeli government offer the opportunity to reaffirm the deep and enduring bonds between the United States and Israel and to discuss the way forward on a broad range of issues of mutual concern, including Iran and Syria," said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor.
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Although Mr. Obama visited Israel and Jordan while running for president in 2008, he hasn't been back since, drawing intense criticism from some pro-Israel groups who have claimed he is insufficiently supportive of the United States' closest ally in the Middle East. Other top administration officials, including former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, have visited.
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FLORENCE, S.C. – J.D. Bass fired even-par 72 on Sunday to lead UNCG on the opening day of the 2007 Southern Conference Men's Golf Championship at the Country Club of South Carolina.
UNCG shot 300 as a team in the opening round to sit in seventh place after the opening round. The Spartans are seven shots behind first round leader Chattanooga, which used four players in the Individual Top 20 to shoot a 293 and grab the opening round lead. Wofford is second at 295, followed by Georgia Southern and Western Carolina at 296.
Bass, a senior from Fairview, NC, is tied for seventh in the individual standings, four shots off the pace. Bass has been UNCG's most consistent golfer, finishing in the Top 20 in six straight tournaments.
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It is very nice that you have given us the rules with your own interpertation, MC, but some of them, if not all of them, are clearly not right, not to say manipulated.
I think you have your own F1 series with your own set of rules.
And you are more than right. "Regulations or not" ban anything that isn't to your liking . Yes, that's very smart. This will surely bring some order into F1. Like you even said anything when Alonso left the pits like he did in Germany. That was also dangerous, but not against the rules. Did you preach here to ban something? Did you preach for this when DC almost cut off Wurz's head with the floor? Did you say we should ban all sharp floor edges? Make them round? Or do you only preach when it is Ferrari?
I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're trying to do. You didn't preach for nothing in that quote. You didn't ask to ban anything, didn't ask to change it or anything else in that direction. All you did was to describe what would happen "if". So I don't buy it.
There's always room for improvements, but I think your reaction to Ferrari's wheels is way over the line, and motivated by other reasons than pure safety reasons.
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did you know that Presti play division 3 ball and one time he took 6 charges in one game dude i wish Presti can play he will be excellent
@KoolKeith3000 Haha. Never ever
I think KD once texted Royce about something he has posted a few years ago.
Royce says all this Jackson/Van Gundy to OKC stuff smells of negotiating tactics.Letting the brooks camp know that thunder could go another way via Awsome DailyThunder twitter account
@tydude are you like..there..next to royce or something lol. your on top of this shizznit
I completely forgot that Maynor was eligible for an extension, too. Summer will be like heaven for Prestigiacomo
Reports from CBS Sports that thunder could Pursue Jeff Van Gundy and Phil Jackson if Brooks not retained
Maynor said he would love to be a starter,But said he believes in "sacrifice' and would rather win.
Honestly guys would it be ethical to fire a coach that has exceeded expectations above anyone could have imagined. When we first got the team, there is no way know one could forsee this amount of success so fast. Now with that being said, do I think Brooks is elite? Not even close but he has done his job and for that, we have too give him a shot...I say 2 year deal! This is coming from a Brooks hater! Lol....
@kdub That's a fair take. If i'm being objective, he did lead the team to the finals, which made it a successful year. I have some concerns with his decision-making in games, and his lack of flexibility. He probably does deserve to come back as the coach of this team, but from this point forward there will be higher expectations.
I just though about something, maybe Brooks assistants are the issue. they are all young and inexperienced except for Cheeks. maybe they upgrade that area cuz when we had Ron Adams our team defense was awesome and then we digressed....people fail to realize that coaching is a team deal and maybe if we keep Brooks Presit demands upgrades on the staff.
@tydude @Lost I think Presti is smarter than that bro. he likes Brooks but he sees his short comings as well. this is a business...no way, 4 years!
@kdub first off, if brooks doesnt bend to his stubbornness then yes he should be let go. That was one of the reasons we couldnt win against miami. I remember bosh just walking around perk like duuuup dadaaaa duuup *dunk* . its THAT bs that makes me question if he has the balls to make a switch. everyone praises him for putting thabo on parker too, HE SHOULD OF DONE THIS IN GAME ONE lol
@Legendary_dork @kdub Brooks is a good coach, Yes the guy is stubborn, and has a shit load to improve but that doesn't mean you don't give him one last chance. I don't have much faith in him, but out of respect you gotta stick to what you got and give it another try. Now if next season we don't make it back to the finals, then let him go.
@Lost Ones @ElMexiThunder @Legendary_dork Same here, at worries me. even Mark Cuban talked about that a couple days ago on 1st Take about the significance of coaching and making adjustments!
@ElMexiThunder @Legendary_dork @kdub My biggest issue with brooks i cant blame him for the defense yet, but my biggest gripe is his stubbornness and lack of feel for the game.
@Lost Ones @Legendary_dork @kdub Thats my fear. Our talent making up for Brooks errors if he doesn't improve, and it being overlooked because we made it back to the WCF or Finals.
@ElMexiThunder @Legendary_dork @kdub we are making it to atleast the WCF on talent alone.
@Legendary_dork @kdub Asst Coach at most. Like i said, by any chance we don't make it back to the finals then bye bye. The problem i have with this, is what if he doesn't improve and we still make it to the finals because of how good we are?
@ElMexiThunder @kdub i guess. if he doesnt show improvement this year, toodles is all i gotta say. or at least keep him around as a towel boy or something.
Things i'de like to see this off-season
1. No Fisher, or Nazr unless Fish decides to take Ivey's role, and Nazr decides to take Cole's role.
2. No more DC, trade him and the first round for a guy who's contract isn't too heavy, but specifically a SF who's strong and bulky. Doesn't need to be a three point shooter. Diddof mentioned Chris Singleton.
3. Like, Lost Ones said, i actually rather Ibaka work on his catching/passing then post work.
4. KD getting stronger which he already said, and working on his handles just a tad better. Needs to grow his awareness as far as what type of passes to do, and when.
5. As Lost ones posted, Harden already admitted he'll work on his right hand.
6. Cole, and Pliess getting serious practice in the summer league, and training camp.
7. Thabo practicing his 3pt shot everyday, 80 made shots a day. Thats what Nicholas Batum did two season ago
8. Reggie and Maynor duking it out. If need be, it won't be bad to have a small Maynor/Reggie/Harden backcourt through out the season if Reggie's game gets better it wouldn't be bad at all.
@ElMexiThunder 80 screw that. i was doing 80 a day to get ready for high school basketball. darius miles was making 1000 a day back when he was trying to stay in the league.
@Legendary_dork Lost Ones, makes good points. Although i disagree with him about Harden a'lot.
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@tydude i remember kd taking a hard foul at one point too, but he pressed on. our guys are troopers. and even though i admire perk for wanting to play injured, its still a bone headed move
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Pentagon's $50 Billion Smart Rock Fails IQ Test
On January 18, the Pentagons second test of its national missile defense system (NMD), known as the Smart Rock, failed to hit its mark.
The Senate and House of Representatives both passed measures in March of last year to commit billions of dollars to the deployment of the NMD system as soon as technologically possible. Although Januarys testthe second in a series of three planned by the Pentagonfailed this time around, the Smart Rock system nonetheless boasts a formidable cheering section. To defense industry lobbyists who have contributed huge sums of money to Bill Clintonand, for that matter, to presidential candidates on both sidesthe Smart Rock represents the centerpiece in the Pentagons relentless effort to both justify and inflate its already overblown budget.
A sort of renovated relic of Ronald Reagans Strategic Defense Initiativealso known as Star Warsthe Clinton administration, left to its own devices, seems determined to go ahead with deployment of the Smart Rock systempossibly as early as this summer.
Recently, in an effort to put a positive face on the failed NMD experiment, State Department spokesperson James Rubin told reporters in Washington that, the (Clinton) administration always understood that developing and testing a missile system like this in a relatively short period of time would be an enormously complex challenge. Rubin also said that (in testing the system), essentially what youre trying to do is...shoot a bullet with a bullet...and having success when that bullet has a closing speed of 14,000 miles per hour...this is an enormously difficult challenge.
The first test of the system took place in October 1999. It was billed as a success because the missile managed to hit its target. But scientists at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) say that hit was more likely attributable to dumb luck than to a Smart Rock. In a real attack, the system would have to contend with simple but devastating countermeasures designed to confuse and overwhelm the defense.
For biological or chemical weapons, says UCS, the warhead can be divided into dozens or hundreds of small bomblets, or submunitions, that would be released from the missile early in flight. These numerous targets would overwhelm the planned NMD system. For nuclear weapons, which cannot be subdivided, a missile can carry a large number of decoys to defeat the defense.
Trying to hit a single, bare warhead with a high-speed interceptorwhich the current tests are assessingis a difficult technical problem, said David Wright, physicist and senior staff scientist at UCS. But it is a completely different problem than trying to get the system to work against countermeasures, which is what matters in the real world. Doing the first doesnt mean you can do the second...basing a deployment decision on the current tests makes no senseits the wrong criterion.
UCS says the tests are insufficient to prove operational effectiveness. They say three tests are too few to determine reliability, and that the tests will not simulate realistic conditions of either the threat or the system itself. The test will use surrogate rocket boosters and seekers.
UCS and other defense experts have long contended that the risks and costs of deploying this limited national missile defense system far outweigh the benefits.
For the very first stage of the system, were talking in the $24 billion dollar range, says Doctor Lisbeth Gronlund, physicist and senior staff scientist at UCS. But thats just the first stage. Gronlund says the problem is, as you get closer to actually building something, the costs always go up...I would be surprised if it could be built for less than $50 billion.
The Smart Rock, says Gronlund, is supposed to destroy an incoming warhead by smashing into it. She said the U.S., will launch a missile to launch the so-called kill-vehicle, which then guides itself to smash into the warhead...its a heat-seeking device, so it needs to be able to sense heat from the warhead, and, in fact, that is what failed in the most recent test.
Gronlund notes the test failed because, the sensors that were supposed to pick up the heat were not operating...for unknown reasons. She says the tests so far have not been representative of what would happen if the U.S. were to actually come under attack by even a small number of missiles.
The system is designed only to defend against a relatively small number of missiles, not against, for example, Russias entire arsenal, said Gronlund. And, she says, even proponents of the system want it to be able to defend against states like North Korea, who might in the future acquire long-range missiles(although) they dont currently have them.
Furthermore, says Gronlund, any country with the where withall to build a long-range missileand perhaps the nuclear warhead to go on itwould also be able to create countermeasures to defeat the missile defense systemwhich are much easier technically. She says the bottom line is that the U.S. is both assuming a threat that is very capable on the one hand of being able to build long-range missiles, and yet, at the same time, not capable of doing simple things to fool or defeat the U.S. missile defense.
Gronlund isnt alone in her assessment. Scientists and defense professionals all over the world have warned that inadequate testing could lead to disaster. UCS is joined by the Center for Defense Information and a host of international experts in its assertion that deployment of such a costly system would almost certainly undermine efforts toward deep nuclear weapons reductions. Russiaperhaps not coincidentallyrecently threatened not to ratify START II, and China is likely to respond by expanding its arsenals as well.
Still, if the Clinton administration chooses deployment, the Smart Rock system could be operational by as early as the year 2005. The decision will be based on the results of the three intercept tests of the NMD, one of which has already failed. Z
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When people ask what prompted me to start The Baby Chef, several reasons that spring to mind the belief that there must be a simpler way to illustrate weaning, the feeling that a closer bond can be developed by sharing mealtimes, and the desire to take away parents natural concerns during this period.
But surely one of the main reasons anyone wants to feed their child fresh, healthy, homemade food is to ensure they get the best possible start to life? After all, anyone that knows me knows my passion for good food but my desire to give Luca a healthy start is an even greater driving force.
And I think the importance of home cooked food is made even more prominent in the light of high profile studies showing how much sugar, salt and fat can be found in certain baby foods and showing that cheeseburgers and biscuits can be more nutritious.
The Childrens Food Campaign survey carried out last year showed that certain baby foods had more sugar than chocolate digestives, while others contained more saturated fat per 100g than a McDonalds quarter pounder cheeseburger.
Overall the survey revealed an incredibly high number of baby and toddler foods that were deemed high in saturated fat, salt and sugar. Only half the products were low in saturated fat, salt and sugar.
Studies like this do make me upset because our childrens health should be a priority. I just hope that we can show people that home prepared weaning food can be simple to produce and cheap to buy, encouraging them to make the switch from the convenience foods that arent actually good for our little ones.
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Even with the crowds who clogged evefry street, and the uneven weather, every day, thanks to the unflagging enthusiasm and organisation and planning of Tom Quinn, our marvelous tour director, was the best.
Wonderful Country Trip
As usual London was fabulous, Edingburg breathtaking and Dublin great, but not as great as Edingburg. I am never disappointed with a GoAhead Tour!
My Journey through the United Kingdom
This summer, I traveled to London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. I visited London last year with Go Ahead tours and fell in love with the city. I knew that I needed to go back. I have to say that this trip was even better than last year! Our guide was excellent! From the very first day, he would go above and beyond; instead of simply showing us where to go on the map, he walked us to the tube station, helped us buy tickets, and showed us exactly where to go. He was very knowledgable, and he told us stories and legends about the area as we traveled, played local music, and even read poetry to us! This trip would be ideal for active travelers as well as leisurely travelers. More active travelers will love the excursions. I went on every excursion offered except one dinner, and they were all well planned and memorable. In London, stonehenge was very memorable; I took countless pictures. In Edinburgh, the Abbotsford & Melrose Abbey excursion was wonderful. In Dublin, the excursion to Glendalough was the most beautiful location! I was in awe of the waterfalls and the scenery. I enjoyed this trip immensly, and I am inspired to go on the literary tour of the United KIngdom next year! The weather is beautiful, with a little rain from time to time,. The scenery is awe inspiring, and the historical locations are amazing! I feel like this was a once in a lifetime experience, although I hope that it is not! I plan to continue traveling with Go Ahead tours in the future.
Milestone Trip
The London, Edinborough, Dublin tour was my first trip outside of the U.S. As soon as I got off the plane at the London Heathrow airport, any trepidation I had quickly dissolved when I was greeted by my Go Ahead representative. From that point on I knew I was in good hands, and that my milestone trip would meet all my expectations and more. My Tour Director, Sean McKeown, was exceptional. He made sure we were all comfortable and at ease in our new surroundings, and somehow managed to make transitioning throughout the different countries seamless. For me, that made the whole experience feel truly like a vacation. Our tour guides were extraordinary! There wasn't a detail that they missed, or a question they couldn't answer; and their level of professionalism made me grateful to be a part of their "audience". So here it is two years later and I'm still talking about how great my trip was to family and friends. Many thanks to the entire Go Ahead team for an unforgettable time!
Rewarding experience!
I wanted to give my daughter a memorable vacation for her college graduation and this was perfect! The optional excursions perfectly complimented the planned tours. I would have liked to see Dublin castle as provided in the tour description, and a real Scottish dinner rather than Italian! Overall, it was fantastic! We are already planning our next trip!
London, Edinburgh, Dublin
This was my 3rd GoAhead Tour and once again I was enchanted. The guided tours, optional excursions and the days on my own were more than I expected or imagined. The hotels were spectacular, the tour director excellent and everything was well planned with no glitches. I absolutely loved everything. I still marvel at all the history, museums, exhibits, palaces, castles and especially the magical world of Edinburgh.
A memory for a lifetime
I have had the pleasure of traveling most of my adult years due to the fact that my parents have been taking people to the Czech Republic and surrounding countries with their own travel group since the 60's. My parents are no longer in the travel business and I have missed the wonderful tours. A year ago my wife and I were invited to go on a tour to London, Edinburg, and Ireland by a family member. We have never traveled with GO Ahead Tours before. This past June we spent a fabulous 10 days touring with this group and we had a wonderful vacation which exceeded our expectations! Go Ahead Tours treated us like family in every way. The hotels were top notch and centrally located. The meals were great! Our tour guide, Tim couldn't have been more helpful. My wife and I had the best trip we have ever been on. We looked forward everyday to the activities that were planned or a day of leisure to enjoy on our own. Needless to say, we are already looking into our next Go Ahead Tour, and we are definitely telling our friends about our trip, in hopes they will come along on the next one. Thanks Go Ahead Tours for a wonderful memory!


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Our View: Sen. Mike Crapo's campaign loan scandal calls for further disclosure
The Sen. Mike Crapo public file over the past six months is certainly a mixed bag of good, bad and "say what?"
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Boise-area voters have an uncanny ability to discern complex election issues. This is a good thing because there are profound choices and nuances aplenty in the May 21 elections for the Greater Boise Auditorium District. We are not opposed to GBAD continuing to expand to become a more attractive...
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The lingering resentment toward city of Eagle leadership for creating a City Hall to begin with is evident in the many fits and starts and votes on financing the building over the past decade. But no amount of even justified disgruntlement can overcome the present math in the present situation.
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People known as "fit-lifters" and "showroomers" didn't exist in such large numbers until consumers began the practice of checking out merchandise at the local brick-and-mortar retailer for size and fit and then purchasing the products - online - tax-free.
WestViews: Students should voice concerns
After the eraser dust settles and final exams are over, many students will leave the University of Idaho campus to embark on summer adventures. While students are preoccupied with jobs and vacations, decisions will be made at the university that will impact the rest of their academic careers.
Our View, University of Idaho: A checklist for school's new president
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I've never gone on jungle cruise. ?/10 ?
it kinda depends
it has some cool history attached to it, it was one of the opening day attractions and it's still there, largely unchanged
however when it opened it was really revolutionary and amazing but now it's just sort of old and dated
but the jungle cruise skippers can be REALLY good
like if you get a funny skipper that's such a fun ride
they tell jokes and make fun of the attraction as you go through
and if you go on at night and there aren't any little kids in the boat
sometimes the humor can get surprisingly raunchy
i'd give it like a 6/10
it's not really an exciting ride but it's near and dear to my heart
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What Wood We Do?
Let's talk about wood, shall we? As we mentioned on Tuesday, we decided to go with solid oak hardwoods for the four bedrooms and the hallway upstairs since many rooms downstairs along with the stairs themselves have a nice medium toned oak already (pretty similar to the hardwoods in our first house that ended up being super dog/kid friendly).
As for where to get it, first we looked on craigslist to see if anyone had a large quantity of something in the right tone/amount (no dice) and then we headed to Lumber Liquidators, since we've had luck with them when it came to buying hardwood floors for half of our first house back in 2007 and it's also where we got the cork flooring for our kitchen in 2011. They always have a ton of selection, and tend to have lots in stock along with all of the underlayment & tools in one place, so they're pretty much a one stop shop for us now that it's our third time to the flooring rodeo.
Clara walked right in and made herself comfortable (the girl's right at home on wood flooring, what can I say?) and we had a look around.
She also had some fun on the tiny set of display stairs. According to the guys who work there every kid who enters the store does that as some sort of unspoken toddler rite of passage.
We ended up grabbing six different samples to hold up against the stairs to see which one would be the best match (we tackled this "sampling phase" right before ripping out all of that nasty upstairs carpeting). Since the sun was setting, we waited until the next morning to take them to the new house so we could judge them in natural light.
We decided to try stripping the carpet off of just the top stair so we could be sure the wood under there was still in good shape (if it was completely damaged we'd have to refinish them, which would mean that we could be less careful about picking a matching wood tone for the upstairs). Thankfully the floor under the runner was in great shape (after we pulled about a hundred staples out by hand) and we loved the medium brown tone (not too yellow, not too dark, not too light). Basically it's the Goldilocks of hard wood.
For a bit more on why we love not-too-dark-not-too-light-not-too-yellow-not-too-red-toned oak, it's probably 50% personal preference (some people love it redder or more golden) and 50% practical (if you go too dark with hardwoods we hear that every spec of dust and pet hair can be seen, and if you go too light we've heard that wear and tear is also easier to spot since it's such a light surface). And since we had practically the same tone of oak hardwoods in our first house for years (and it worked well for us – we loved how it looked with our furniture, etc) that ended up swaying us.
Can you tell from this bad iPhone picture of all the samples (sorry!) which one works the best with the stairs?
Yup, it's the bottom left guy. He was the only one in almost exactly the same color and with the same variety of grain (some dark grain and some light grain). It was also the same thickness (2 1/4″) as the hardwood downstairs. So although we loved some of the wider board options, it felt true to our house and nice and cohesive to go with the one that was the right color, had the right amount of wood grain, and was the same width as the rest of the wood flooring in the house.
It took everything in us not to keep going down each step with the crowbar and the pliers, stripping that stained old carpet as we went. But we knew we had a date with the carpeting upstairs (it's more important to rip that out and lay the new hardwoods before we move than it is to get it off the stairs, which can be done at any time). In the bad news department, that top step took us about 20 minutes to wrestle free (which means we have about three hours worth of work in our future). But stair runner, you have been warned. We'll be back.
So after judging those samples in the nice natural light of the morning, we returned to Lumber Liquidators a day after our first trip to officially put in our order. We were armed with the square footage for all of the areas we needed to do, so now that we had picked our Hardwood Bachelor (he accepted our rose and everything), it was pretty straightforward.
Here's a close up of our winner winner chicken dinner. It's called Lono Oak and it's a solid wood floor (it's not engineered, and it's 3/4″ thick so it can be refinished many times) and it comes with a 25 year warranty. Most hardwood flooring is in the $4-7-ish range, but LL's list price was $3.69 per square foot.
Here's where I smiled sweetly and asked my favorite negotiating question, which is "what's your best price?" Then you just stand there. Resist the urge to mumble "uh, not that I'm trying to be tough" or "I'm sorry, forget it" Just stand there in silence and wait to see what they say. If they can come down, they'll tell you. And if they can't they'll say they can't and you can smile and say "just had to ask." John hates this step, so it's always my job. And before I threw out my favorite line, I also mentioned how this was our third big order from them so we're definitely loyal repeat customers.
Boom: 10% off our entire order for those two sentences. So that took the price per square foot down to $3.29 and also scored us 10% off other things we grabbed like a special type of underlayment to work with our subfloor (more on that when we get to the installation process). Speaking of installing it, we're going to attempt to do it all ourselves, and we better get started soon if we hope to move in 2.5 weeks! Plus we want to paint all of the blue/mauve trim (and maybe even the doors?) while the carpet's out but before the floor goes down. So… yeah. Tick tock, Petersiks.
Meanwhile Clara was busy spicing up their brochure displays…
We left feeling pretty excited about our big upstairs flooring overhaul. Especially since we asked how much it would cost to hire their guys to install all the flooring and they said it would be around four thousand bucks! So assuming we can do it (knock on hardwood) it'll definitely add up to some serious money saved.
So our hardwoods are ordered and we have a whole mess of blue trim to paint. We'd like to buy a paint sprayer and try our hand at that, so we'll keep you posted. Should be interesting…
The New House Floor Plan
Just like our first house floor plan and our current house floor plan from yesteryear, a bunch of you have requested a new house floor plan. So here ya go! They definitely help visual people like us see what walls are where, and what flows into what. So we whipped this up with floorplanner.com (which is, as the name might suggest, a free floor planning site). One big difference from the last two floor planning posts that we shared? This time there's a second level. Who's got two thumbs and a set of stairs? This girl.
The funny thing is that when we shared a video tour of the new house, some people said "wow, the new house seems so much bigger!" and some other people said "wow, your new house seems so much smaller!" so that was interesting to us. I think it's hard to judge room size without furniture, so since the new house is empty – and covered in blue trim and wallpaper – it might be throwing people off. In reality the new house and the current house are almost exactly the same square footage (there's literally only a 20 square foot difference). The new house just looks a lot bigger from the outside since there's a visible second story instead of a hidden 1000 square foot addition off the back of the house that you can't see from the street.
As for a few first thoughts about what we'd like to do to alter the actual footprint…
- we'd love to convert the big triple window in the eat-in part of the kitchen into a big french door that leads out onto the deck
- there are a bunch of doors closing everything off on the first floor (they block the flow between the dining room and kitchen, the kitchen and foyer, etc) so we'll be taking those down to open things up
- the wall between the living room and the kitchen will come down, but we'd love some built in bookcases on each side with a large centered opening (sort of like the built-ins in our current dining room but perhaps with glass doors and lighting)
- we're planning to fully renovate the chopped up bathroom and sink nook in our master so they're all one space with a nice big double sink and a soaker tub
- someday we'd love to fully finish the unfinished storage space at the end of the hallway (right now it's just a raw space full of exposed beams and ducts, but maybe down the line we can floor it and drywall it to create a movie room/bunk room for Clara, potential Bean #2, and their friends when they're older) Update: due to lots of questions, I wanted to clarify the stairs you see in the unfinished storage space – those lead to the attic, but the area labeled as "unfinished storage" is on the same floor as the bedrooms (no walking up or down to get to it).
This video tour of the new house will probably make more sense out of those bullets, and of course we have a bunch of other stuff banging around in our heads (we change our minds every minute) so we'll be back with a big ol' List O' Planz for all the items on the agenda. Get ready guys, we might break 3,000 words with that baby. Oh wait, we forgot measurements! Here's an extremely approximated rundown for ya (tape measure + three year old = immediate mayhem).
- Foyer: 9.5 x 8′
- Office: 16 x 13′
- Dining Room: 13.5 x 13′
- Kitchen: 21 x 11′
- Hall Bath: 4.5 x 5′
- Living Room: 20 x 13.5′
- Sunroom: 18 x 12′
- Master Bedroom: 13.5 x 19′
- Master Bath + Sink Nook (since we hope to combine 'em down the line): 8.5 x 7′
- Possible Future Nursery: 11.5 x 13.5′
- Clara's Room: 13.5 x 12.5′
- Hall Bath: 8.5 x 7′
- Guest Room: 13.5 x 11′
- Laundry Nook: 3 x 7′
- Unfinished Storage (with exposed beams, ducts, etc): 17 x 19.5′
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Smell Ya Later, Upstairs Carpet
Dude, removing wall to wall carpeting (and all the layers under it) is no joke. We learned that when we finally tackled that task this weekend – and lived to tell the tale. Let me just tell you, progress smells a lot better than old carpeting. Even when there's a substantial amount of sweat involved…
When we bought this house we knew that the four bedrooms upstairs (along with the hallway) needed new flooring since the once-cream (now mostly tan) wall to wall carpets were stained, threadbare, and even holey in some areas.
Thankfully a few areas were so loose we could peek under them during our very first walk-through to see what we were working with. Sadly, there was no hardwood to be found under there, and we were greeted with subfloor. But we're so glad we made that discovery before buying (we definitely factored that expense into our decision). And after we got over the sadness of not having old hardwoods under there to revive, we got excited about picking out new flooring.
We considered a whole range of things for a while (hardwoods, new wall to wall carpeting, bamboo, tile) and after a lot of thought ended right back at oak hardwoods, since it's what we had in our first house as well as our current one (even in the bedrooms). We like that we can always toss down an area rug to cozy things up (and since those can change over time it feels a little more flexible than committing to a certain type/color of wall to wall carpet for a decade or two). Plus with a kid and a dog we have just found wood flooring to be easy to keep clean/wipe down/etc.
We also already have oak flooring on the stairs that lead to the second level as well as in the future office, dining room, and living room – so we thought finding some in the same finish and grain would be a nice seamless this-has-always-been-here choice. But before we could bring in some delicious new hardwoods to install ourselves (at least that's the plan!) we were faced with stripping away all of the aforementioned nasty carpeting in all four bedrooms up there and the hallway… which turned out to be quite the job. Here's how we got 'er done.
First we used a mini crowbar to pry back the corner…
With some gentle force it popped right up and we could start to pull it out from that corner.
It definitely wasn't delicate pulling, more like forceful yanking, but with John working on one corner and me in another we were able to free up enough of it to start rolling it towards the other side of the room (we paused to take this photo, but picture me standing next to John rolling along with him). It's definitely one of those four-hands-are-better-than-two tasks if possible.
Oh and wear gloves! And long sleeves if you're smart. We wised up after our forearms got raw from carrying rolls of carpeting down to the garage, where we're storing it all until we can figure out what to do with it (it's too gross to donate, so we might need to rent a Bagster or something to get rid of it). Update: thanks for all the info on recycling carpets, cutting them down for curbside pickup, and all the other cheaper/greener alternatives than just trashing them. You guys are geniuses!
Room by room we repeated that process (and down the hallway as well). Pry up the corner, yank yank yank, roll roll roll, and drag that baby down to the garage. In some areas there was so much carpeting that we cut it in half with a box cutter before carrying it down to lighten our load. Then we were left with this lovely blue carpet padding underneath. Which was stapled and nailed down in about a thousand places per room (sadly that's not an exaggeration).
Just like the carpeting, it could be yanked up, but it left a ton of little staples and nails and tack strips all around the room once it was stripped from the space.
These are tack strips. They run around the perimeter of a room and are thin little shim-like pieces of wood with nails poking up through them (they grab the carpet pad and carpet to hold it in place).
Sometimes you can shove a crowbar under them (this takes borderline brute strength, so your palm is red even with gloves on afterwards) and pop them up all as one piece. The hard thing is that if they're old and brittle (check) sometimes they splinter as they go, which means instead of slamming a prybar against them to try to get each 2′ long strip up in about 30 seconds, if it splinters a ton it can take five minutes to dig out all of the nails and splintered wood that break apart but are still stuck in the floor. You can see me gracefully (and breathlessly) doing this in the video we made for you about five photos down.
I worked on all of the tack strips in the master bedroom while John did the hallway and the nursery and then I tackled the guest room while John worked on Clara's room. It probably took us about an hour and a half to get that part done, so one person trying to do that all by themselves might be in it for 3+ hours (probably with some blisters even with gloves on).
Once the tack strips were all up we were faced with the harder part…
… these guys.
They were everywhere and the prybar was of no help since it couldn't really get under them. At first the only way we could get them up was by hand with a needle nosed pliers. One by one. But after John did Clara's closet that way and it took over an hour (for one closet!!!) we decided we needed to find an alternative. Thankfully a little googling turned up the idea of a nice heavy duty long-handled floor scraper (we got ours for $25 at Lowe's) and that was a lot faster! It still took some serious strength, and we both had sore backs, but we were able to get all of the staples up in all four bedrooms and the hallway in about two hours (at the by-hand-with-a-pliers-rate we thought it might take us about two days). Warning: if you have hardwoods, you might not want to use a scraper since it could ding them up, but it's great for subflooring.
The next day we returned to clean up, using a broom to make piles followed by the shop-vac to suck up all the staples and nails.
You can see in this video how each step of the process went (it shows how to get up those tack strips and staples a little better than still photos can):
Now we have smooth, bare subfloors that are ready for hardwood.
We never thought we'd be so glad to see pure unadulterated pressed wood in our lives!
And now our garage looks like this:
That, my friends, is what progress looks like. Turns out progress looks a lot like stinky rolled up carpeting.
But oh happy day, we're moving in the right direction!
Any other carpet stripping going on? Are the staples your arch nemeses? Those little buggers were infuriating until we discovered The Amazing Wonder-Scraper! Seriously, my "what superhero power would you have?" answer would now be to have a paint roller on one arm and a floor scraper on another. Never know when you'll need one…