Heh. I need to do a picspam of our house renovation. If only for you and laurelwood.
We bought the house on 3/3/2003. It had been a rental for 20 years, and had last been "renovated" in the 50s; it was 1100 sf. It was a screaming deal for this area at $251,000 (we offered on it 15 minutes after we saw it; there were 3 other offers, but we had no contingencies so we got it. Whew.)
We remodeled the hideous kitchen and installed in-floor heating, a new heater, and rewired the place first off. (Still had the old knob-and-tube wiring, and the outlets were not grounded, and there were about 4 of them in the whole house. The kitchen basically ran off a power strip.) While we were gone this winter we had the tiny bathroom removed and a new one carved out of the strange skinny bedroom (8x15), and the foundationless sinking old-addition knocked off and a new 2-story one framed in. (The rest of the house is high-ceilinged, so the addition is barely visible from the street. We live in a historic district so we had to get permission for this. We're trying very hard to stick to the original feel of the house. As it is, we're only increasing the size to about 1450 sf.)
Right now the new upstairs bathroom has just been tiled. The sink and toilet are about to be installed. Everything's sheetrocked and painted, but the windows and doors haven't been trimmed yet. (Today I stained and sealed a bunch of trim.) We have bought the planking for floors - we're going to re-floor the whole house as the original wood floor is a mess - and I guess that's the next big project. We also just bought and have started to install light fixtures.
Here are a few pictures from last year's photo meme - one of our lovely arched windows, and a view of part of the living room - a niche, and a bit of interior archway and a window. Right now we are living in this part of the house, but at the time we had just redone the walls and repainted.
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We bought the house on 3/3/2003. It had been a rental for 20 years, and had last been "renovated" in the 50s; it was 1100 sf. It was a screaming deal for this area at $251,000 (we offered on it 15 minutes after we saw it; there were 3 other offers, but we had no contingencies so we got it. Whew.)
We remodeled the hideous kitchen and installed in-floor heating, a new heater, and rewired the place first off. (Still had the old knob-and-tube wiring, and the outlets were not grounded, and there were about 4 of them in the whole house. The kitchen basically ran off a power strip.) While we were gone this winter we had the tiny bathroom removed and a new one carved out of the strange skinny bedroom (8x15), and the foundationless sinking old-addition knocked off and a new 2-story one framed in. (The rest of the house is high-ceilinged, so the addition is barely visible from the street. We live in a historic district so we had to get permission for this. We're trying very hard to stick to the original feel of the house. As it is, we're only increasing the size to about 1450 sf.)
Right now the new upstairs bathroom has just been tiled. The sink and toilet are about to be installed. Everything's sheetrocked and painted, but the windows and doors haven't been trimmed yet. (Today I stained and sealed a bunch of trim.) We have bought the planking for floors - we're going to re-floor the whole house as the original wood floor is a mess - and I guess that's the next big project. We also just bought and have started to install light fixtures.
Here are a few pictures from last year's photo meme - one of our lovely arched windows, and a view of part of the living room - a niche, and a bit of interior archway and a window. Right now we are living in this part of the house, but at the time we had just redone the walls and repainted.