Well, the remodel is nearly complete.
Rick will be here on Monday to replace the front door and hang the cat door.
Those are the last two things on my list ... whoo fkn hooo!!
I've got a large dump run to make next week.
And now everything has to be put in order, I'm a little over half way there with all that.
The kitchen is complete, the living room is nearly there and my new bedroom area is pretty well under control. We intend to paint the bathroom in the next couple months sometime but to be perfectly honest, I am about sick to freakin' death of cleanin', paintin', and movin' all my crap! So, the bathroom isn't probably going to get a whole lot of attention for a while. Once the living room is back together I intend to take a break from that kind of disruption for a while. It makes me completely insane to have everything I own in one big ol' pile! Go figure ...
At any rate, I took some pictures of the progress so far to show mom since she's been too sick to come over for a while, and thought I'd post them here for your viewing pleasure ... I know you must care a whole lot ... ;o)
Originally, the idea was to only remove 1/2 the wall from the small room and extend it about 4 feet into the living room, making a slightly larger bedroom, however, when 1/2 the wall was down it opened everything up so much I decided right then that a new wall would not be going up, that it would just be left open, Aimee's idea was to remove the entire wall .... so that's what we did ...
Goodbye wall ...
When you only have 56 ft of space, everything you own ends up in one big ol' pile ... I cannot begin to express how stressful that part is ...
The color I chose for the kitchen was supposed to be a nice wine color ... listen up little ones, when painting with reds, do NOT use white primer, you will get a horrid pink/fuscia color, depending on the depth of the red you are trying to achieve ... this picture shows the difference between using the white primer and using the dark gray primer ... I have NEVER wanted a pink kitchen ... hahaha
Rick came yesterday and installed the new hood over the stove! All of the previous appliances were bisque or almond colored ... the black works much better so far as I'm concerned.
The beautiful BIG pantry Rick built, I love that thing, it gave us so much more room!
We put a pretty geometric patterned privacy film in the big garden window and removed the large plastic shelf that had sat in front of the window for the last four years ... not only did that open up the space in there ... but it gave us back the use of that window, which we had not been using all this time. The floor is vinyl, it looks so good and so real, I just love it ... this particular vinyl is adhesive free, you use this tape stuff under the appliances and around the doorways and the vinyl sits on the rest of the floor w/o adhesive, you can get right back on this floor once it's laid because there's no more waiting for the glue to dry. It was about 20 cents more pr sq ft, but it was totally worth it. When you only need a 12x10 piece, you can pretty much afford to go with whatever you want. I had originally picked out a nice black and white marble looking vinyl, but that was going to be a special order and I didn't have 10 days to wait for it. The store had this in stock and I couldn't be happier with it and I'm glad it's not the black & white stuff now. It helps make the cupboards seem not quite so ugly ... hey, whatever works ...
I am sure the neighbors will be happy that all is completed. Rick likes to get started bright and early at 9am! Remodeling is very loud! I am hoping to have the living room finished up today or tomorrow, and I will post pics when that is complete ...
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