But I'll give you a thumbnail.
We (Patrick, Robyn, Reghan, Conlan and Rowan - who was in-utero at the time of the move) moved into 216 Cottage on January 10, 2007. Our first official act as owners of the house was to tear out every inch of cat piss-scented carpet in the place. That, of course, left a lot of old timey wood floors that are in need of some repair and refinishing. We still haven't done it and will probably leave that job for last.
We'll get into the bathroom remodel we did last winter, the half-done mudroom/laundry from last summer and the half-done kitchen we're currently struggling to finish. Oh, and I may even get into why I decided to tear off all of the aluminum siding last summer even though we didn't have the money to repair and paint it. File that under Wild Hair...
So for now, enjoy a lot of BEFORE photos. We'll get into DURING and AFTER later.
The master bedroom. Nice room, save for some rotten, moldy carpet and a lot of cracking and peeling plaster. We probably won't do much to this room except floors and plaster repairs.
The upstairs hall. You may not be able to tell from these heart-breakingly low quality photos, but that's exposed (textured and painted, though!) duct work on the wall to your right. I didn't want to buy the house because of this. But it's currently being taken care of.
Beautiful pine and oak staircase. Stanky carpet, gone.
Foyer. Now also carpet free.
The kitchen. Everything you see here is gone. Well, the windows and doors are still there. This was an exercise in wasted space.
Well, for what it's worth..I would have also pulled up the carpet & pulled down the aluminum first :-) IMHO, the old stuff that is under there is always better, regardless of it's condition....even if it has to stay that way for a while. I adore your big kitchen!
ReplyDeleteThe carpet had to go. The place just smelled putrid, at best. The aluminum could have waited. But the only way we would have known what we were dealing with was to rip it down. And here we are.
ReplyDeleteThe kitchen isn't huge at all, but hopefully in a month or two I'll have some (almost) AFTER shots of that. It should be a comfortable size and layout, even with the concessions we had to make. I need to put up some DURING shots, as well...lots of crazy stuff under that plaster that I forgot to take pics of, but we have a few.
Thanks for the kind words!