Transformation

I suck at blogging.  Whatever, we'll deal.  Not done yet, but we're maybe 92% there.  Here are some before and after pics as a teaser to the final product

The kitchen was widened by about 4 ft.  We're still missing a vent hood (against the far wall) and the backsplash (marble subway).  The floors are all wood under that paper...

Master bedroom.  It's hard to take a picture of.  It was disgusting before. Small, with a tiny bathroom that was straight out of 1952 (with carpeted floors - ewww).  We vaulted the ceiling and cannibalized another bedroom to make a huge master bath and closet (pics of that to come...)

Hall bathroom.  It was awesome before....not.

This is the upstairs.  It was an unfinished attic space before which we've turned into two bedrooms, a bathroom and a loft space

Baby Steps

A little more progress below.


New living room shot.  Gross carpet removed.  Ugly built-ins removed.  Still work to be done!

Walking through the living room up to the dining room.  Kitchen to the right.  That wall is being removed to open it up even more

Ok, other side of the house now.  NEW and IMPROVED master bedroom.  It's hard to take a picture of, but the space you are looking at here is where the old grody master bath used to be.  We also vaulted the ceilings.  oohhh ahhhh

Ok, so since that master bath (and closet) are removed, those spaces have been recreated by cannibalizing one of the downstairs bedrooms right next door.  So this space below will be the new master bath and closet and through that, the hall bath (which will obviously be walled off, but there is no wall right now.

And this is now the only other, second, bedroom on the bottom floor.  With a cute kid in it.

Waiting on an engineer review now before we can continue....

We've started....FINALLY

So I feel like I'm part of a cover up or something since I deleted the last post.  It wasn't really relevant anymore since the plans had changed so much.  I swear it's nothing sketchier than that.  What are you, the NSA? :)

Here are the new plans for the bottom floor of the house.  Basically we are gutting the kitchen (right side of plans below) and expanding it a bit, and also opening it up to the living/dining room as much as possible.  Also, we're taking out the master bath and closet (top right corner of the plans below) and making that whole space the new master bedroom - with awesome vaulted ceilings - and then we're using the downstairs bedroom next to that to become the new master bath & closet. So at the end of the day there will b two bedrooms downstairs and two in the new upstairs.

The demo started a few weeks ago when the Double-D's showed up  - it was like a flashback to our last project

The demolished entry way when you walk in the front door.  We took out the coat closet that was here and opened it up to the stairs.  It'll feel so much more open when you walk in now - compare it to the picture in the last post below.

Here is the living room with the horrible carpets pulled out and the old built-ins removed

Kitchen - gutted - but not yet expanded.  The wall you see on the right will be pushed back several feet.

Master bedroom.  Hard to take a picture of it, but you can see where the old bath and closet were. The framing you see (the post in the middle) will all come down so that it's one space.  Previously you couldn't fit a king bed in here and now it's going to be a very generously sized room.  I'll have to try to get another picture which shows it better once it's cleaned up

And even the pool is looking better.  It looks a bit radioactive now, but the chemicals are definitely doing their job cleaning out all the gunk that grew over the past year.  I'm hoping we can swim soon!