House in Progress Diary

Lord, do I feel your pain. Between snow and salt coming in from the outside and joint compund dust coming in from the upstairs (new ceilings and new electric) and downstairs (new tv room), I've just given up on keeping the white crap off of the floors. Of course, because my living room looks like a tool storage shed and all three rooms on the first floor have peeling wallpaper AND samples of paint all over the place, you don't really notice the dirt so much. Maybe you could try making your walls a disaster as an alternative to cleaning? Seems to be working for me right now.

sigh...since salt ate big chunks of our concrete steps last year, ken is now using sand when it gets icy. so five pairs of sandy feet track in and out of my kitchen on an almost daily basis...it's like living at the beach, but without the view, the ocean, the serenity...ok, it's not like living at the beach at all---it's like living in a big old cat box...

i feel your pain, even if only for the rest of the winter...

Maybe its a crazy idea, but i have a solution: take your shoes off when you come in.

Ah, Ralph. If it were only that simple I would love that!

However, anyone walking on the second floor right now NEEDS shoes (for safety reasons). To take them off in one part of the house and put them on in another doesn't really work when you need to walk from the second floor to the outside many times in a row (like now when we are taking things in and out.) It's the reality of working in the house you are living in...safety comes before grit.