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May 04, 2008
May 03, 2008
Six Weeks, and Counting
It's been a few weeks since we started the master bathroom renovation. As you can see from the pictures, it's been quite a job ... a total re-do from the floors to the ceiling.
Since our last post, we've:
- completed the floor system, including floor joists and subfloor;
- roughed in the plumbing;
- reworked the electrical;
- built a couple of small walls and installed the shower pan;
- added rock board around the lower half of the room;
- repaired , replaced and refinished the plaster;
- painted the trim and upper half of the walls, and
- started putting up the tin ceiling.
You can see more pictures on our Picasa site. With any luck, we'll finish the ceiling this weekend, and Andi will start stenciling the paint job next week. After that, tile the shower, tile the floor, tile the lower half of the walls, install the fixtures ... and ... take a vacation.
Stay tuned.
March 16, 2008
Master Bath Starts This Weekend
Andi finishes removing remaining chunks of plaster from laths
We had a very busy weekend and made a lot of progress on the renovation of the master bathroom. This is the last room we have to restore, and it will take a lot of work to get it completed. This weekend, we started in earnest. The pre-work of removing the old fixtures and cutting off the plumbing was done a couple of weekends ago.
The first step this weekend was to remove the plaster around the lower part of the walls. This lower part of the walls will be tiled with subway tiles, and the upper two-thirds will be painted plaster. It was tiring, but the biggest problem was the dust storm we created when we made the level cut around the room.
The second set of tasks involved a lot of work to level the floor. We're replacing the hardwood floor (which had a several rotten spots) with tile. And, one corner of the room was about four inches lower than the opposite corner. So, the only real option was to remove all of the floor boards and re-hang all the floor joists. Once we cut out and nail down one more sheet of plywood, we will have finished half of the room.
View photo gallery, and stay tuned.
At left, we are just getting started removing the unlevel floor. At right, you can see the new, level flooring.
March 08, 2008
25 Years, and Counting
This isn't about house restoration ... It's even better news ... We just celebrated our 25th anniversary! Candice sent flowers from college. Lots of other folks sent cards, e-mails, phone calls and loads of love this way. Thanks. We'll be sure to invite you all to our 50th anniversary party when that rolls around in a few years.
February 24, 2008
Dining Room: Check
(Click picture to super-size of the composite image.)
We are very happy to share that we have completed the dining room. It turned our very nice. We had our first official meal in there today, when Karen, Dave and Shannon came over for my special sandwiches and strawberry shortcake.
The paint job is something that Murphy Brown's painter would have been proud to complete. There is a lot of trim in the room. For the wall color, Andi selected "ripe currant" (that's "red," to you and me) .... and it took four coats to get such a nice even coverage. The red is not a typical Victorian color, be we thought the space deserved a bold choice.
The other time-consuming parts included stripping and refinishing the fireplace mantle, repairing and refinishing the doors of the built-in china cabinet, and adding the plate rail around the top of the room.
The next -- and last -- room is the master bath. We'll post the "before" picture soon. Stay tuned.
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