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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
here's another renovation question - when to paint?
We're down to the home stretch on the giant kitchen renovation. We basically are down to flooring and painting and then finish/trim work on the cabinets and doors frames. The tile has been ordered, but won't be installed for another 2 weeks. DH thinks we should paint now before the tile goes in. I think this is kinda crazy and always think painting is the last thing you do. He said he'd agree if we were getting carpet, but since its tile, its NBD to paint first. I'm not really sure why I think paint is last except that on the home reno shows its always last. What do you think - would you do it now or wait until the floors are done?
We're hiring contractors to do both things - so its not really an issue w/ our time.
Re: here's another renovation question - when to paint?
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w -- BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w -- BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d -- BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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Paint last. You don't want workers coming in and out of your house w/ boxes of tile, tools, etc. and freshly painted walls. Also tile installation can get a little messy- after everything is grouted they wet everything down a couple times and there can be some small splashes of dirty grout water that could end up on your walls, etc.
We had the upstairs of our house painted before we moved in and had our hardwoods refinished AFTER the painting was done- we were on a tight timeline and since the floors takes longer and has to be left alone for at least 48 hours or whatever had to do it that way. We still have some small spots on our walls where a little bit of poly found its way up onto the newly painted walls, it's pretty impossible to remove, vs. latex paint drips come off a lot of stuff pretty easily if you get to them in time.
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w -- BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w -- BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d -- BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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I TIA with this- "good" not great paint isn't cheap, and good brushes and painting equipment are downright expensive!
ha - yeah - $70 on paint, but $200+ on brushes, pans, drop clothes, ladders, etc., etc.