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The landscaping (before)

on October 18, 2011

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The bathroom

This little bathroom has so many problems. No shower. The tiniest sink. Not a straight wall on the right. And you walk right into the tub as you enter the room. And a radiator right in the middle of the room. The tile was so poorly installed, it was just falling off the wall. The wallpaper was dated and didn't coordinate with the tile color. The tile easily lifted off the original wood floors. The wood floor around the toilet was completely rotted from years of toilet overflow. And once we removed the wood floor, we found the subfloor had so many holes. From the basement, we also found that the two main floor joists supporting the tub area was so cut, barely 2" of wood was holding it together. First thing, is to get the structural integrity of the room safe again. We are installing two 2 x 10 x 12 sister to the floor joists and new subfloor so that we can add new tile. While the original house had a wood f...

Bedroom 2 - the middle room

The original plan was to make the middle room either a stairwell to the 2nd level or a bathroom, but in a moment of sanity... and since it already had a closet, I have decided to keep it a bedroom and add a stairwell to the attic space from the back stairwell entry. Bedroom 2 is also missing its 5-panel wood door. The previous owner decided to take his rage out on the door, so I am in search of a door. I know I can always get a new one on special order, but people are always tossing out these doors, so I am going to hold out for a good find. This room has some minor patches that need to be made to the ceiling. We are going to use the plaster washers, joint compound and screen method to stabilize the lathe and plaster ceiling. The same crowns are going up in this room as are in the other rooms. We lucked out on Maxsold.com at a recent estate auction and have already found some of the furnishings for this room. The color palette for ...

We gotta zig instead of zag...

So a wrench was thrown into our reno plans... my first "tenant" moved in before we even can get to some much needed repairs. Yup... my uncle moved his stuff in August 1, so we are doing a little zig before we zag. What does this mean for the reno project? Instead of working with an empty house which is much easier when you have subcontractors making a mess, we will have to work room by room and hawkishly be cleaning up after each worker as they come through. As for what's left on the to-do list: We stalled the building of the stairwell and expanding the 2nd level and instead have shifted to just keeping the current footprint of the bedrooms... still a 3 bed, but just small rooms. We need to tear up a wall in one room to update the electrical in the house, but in the other rooms, we can get access from the 2nd attic level. As for the bathroom and kitchen... as soon as the bulkhead is made, a full gut of the bathroom and kitchen will be underway. Garage pl...

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The landscaping (before)

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