Before and After - Crafts Room
Posted on August 20, 2008
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Today I finished painting the crafts room. The color is “soft terrain” by Dutch Boy Paints and yes it is the same color in Bedroom #2 and the kitchen. The reason for this is I had an extra gallon of it laying around left over from the kitchen and seeing that I’m currently flat busted broke it was the best I could do. It turned out nicely and I’m getting good with the blue tape.
In it’s prevous life, this was the upstairs kitchen. It too was yellow but maybe a little brighter than what I’m using; it was pleasant enough, too bad it was a roach motel. I also got the closet completely painted so now I have a place to put all of my scrapbooking supplies.
The plan is to install upper and lower cupboards in a configuration similar to what was there when it was a kitchen but even a couple of office supply cupboards would work nicely. Rachel and I have lots of crafts-y stuff so it will take no time in filling things up. It is so cool having a place to put all of our junk!
IMAGES OF CRAFTS ROOM POST-PURCHASE OF HOUSE
IT WAS SO ROACH INFESTED. I COULDN’T WAIT TO GET RID OF THE ROACHES AND THEN TEAR EVERYTHING OUT AND START OVER.
THE CLOSETS NEVER EVER HAD DOORS IN ANY OF THESE ROOMS, THEY WERE MEANT TO BE OPEN.
YOU CAN SEE WHAT BAD SHAPE THE PLASTER WAS IN. tHE GAS LINE AND DRYER VENT CAN BE SEEN ALONG THE FLOOR ALONG WITH A 220 OUTLET.
WHAT LIES BENEATH. tHIS WAS UNDERNEATH SOME BEADBOARD ALONG WITH A TON OF COCKROACH SPECKS.
DURING DEMOLITION:
THE ORIGINAL 1950′S WALLPAPER, HOW CUTE!
DURING CONSTRUCTION
AND PAINTED!
Before and After - Living Room
Posted on August 15, 2008
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Sadly, the living room has yet to be painted. I have picked out a paint color though. It is called Sea Scent by Pittsburgh Paint and it is about four shades lighter than what is in the dining room. It will be a good compliment since the rooms are open to one another. The sea scent is also a good compliment to the red ginseng I painted in the family room.
So, there are no after shots showing paint. Possibly I shouldn’t even show this room because it’s not painted but I guess when I do paint it I’ll just add a picture somewhere in this entry or a link to it.
This was one stinky room. They had put paneling over the cracking plaster then they had applied cedar shakes on top of the paneling. Man was it ugly. I even found this thing in the garage covered with the same shakes. I can only wonder where it had once been inside the house. Sheesh!
BEFORE PICTURES OF THE LIVING ROOM (JUNE 2005):
AFTER REMOVING THE PANELING IN THE LIVING ROOM (DECEMBER 2005).
I THEN TOOK DOWN THE REMAINING PLASTER IN THIS ROOM AND INSULATED THE WALLS (SOMETIME IN 2006). THE INSULATION PICTURES ARE ON ANOTHER COMPUTER…
AND AFTER THE ELECTRICITY WAS UPDATED THEY PUT IN WALLS (SPRING 2008)
IT STILL IS NOT MUCH TO LOOK AT. IN FACT IT’S EMBARRASSING BECAUSE IT HAS TURNED INTO A HOLDING CELL OF SORTS.
IT WILL BE NICE TO GET IT PAINTED AND BRING IN MY DAY BEDS. THERE WON’T BE MUCH MORE TO PUT IN THIS ROOM FOR THE TIME BEING. I DO HAVE PLENTY OF PICTURES TO HANG ON THE WALLS.
Before and After - Family Room
Posted on August 12, 2008
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Oh this room. It started out as one of the bedrooms for the bachelor pad when this was an apartment. Three older, divorced or single men shared the place, they all smoked and swilled beer together. Not that it’s any of my busniness, but the house smelled so bad! The walls were colored by years of tar from the cigarettes. I guess that is one of the good things about having to remove all of the walls and ceilings, it gave me a chance to start from scratch and really get rid of the stinky smell.
At some point, a pipe broke or sprung a leak upstairs, flooding these walls and the walls in the living room. One of the then inhabitants claimed a 5 gallon bucket got spilled, I don’t know, my suspicion is the washing machine they had hooked up up there dumped an entire cycle’s worth of water. You can see the water marks on the paneling, especially in the 3rd picture down. The white was some awful plaster/texture treatment slathered on top of the paneling. This was the last room to have the walls and ceiling ripped out by me. I could never figure out what it was that made this room seem like such a chore but I about killed myself for five days gutting it. The number of sheets of paneling, ceiling tiles, glass tiles, and never-ending piles of plaster that flew out of the window were staggering.
THREE BEFORE IMAGES (PICTURE DATES ARE INCORRECT, THESE WERE FROM SEPTEMBER, 2005.
DURING TEAR-OUT OF THE ROOM
I CAN’T SEEM TO FIND THE IMAGES OF WHERE THE EXTERIOR WALLS WERE STUFFED WITH INSULATION, BUT TRUST ME, THEY ARE. I AM HOPING FOR A BIG DIFFERENCE IN HOW THE HOUSE FEELS THIS WINTER NOW THAT EVERY SINGLE EXTERIOR WALL HAS BEEN FILLED WITH R-13.
AFTER IMAGES:
The room is not alot to shout about right now even though the celing and walls have been replaced and painted. I need furniture covers for the couch and chair that match and I need crown molding and the floor finished. These items, as in the other before/after rooms will have to wait for me to pay off credit cards and the like which will be in spring 2009. Until then, this’ll have to do.
