Our New Old House

1998 County Assessor Photo:

Right before we purchased it:

Right before we painted it:

How it looks today:

Finally! Some photos of our kitchen looking closer than ever to being done! At least it looks clean and usable now.

Ok time for before and after!

Woo hoo!  I have my kitchen back!  We still have plans to add cabinets over the stove and fridge,  refinish and paint the existing cabinets, and actually paint the walls something other than white, but we’re getting closer!

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I wanted to take a picture of this before it got painted over. The living room and dining room both had this trim around the top of the wall.

I had to do a lot of plaster work in this room. I’m particularly proud of reconstructing this corner that had crumbled away as the house settled.

Here’s a before picture:

One side of the wall over the fireplace needed some major repair:

I started attacking the gunk on the floor with a new vengeance, doing garbage bag sized sections rather than grocery bag sized ones.

Mom came over with some of my friends to help me put primer on the walls.

We bought a new rug, cleaned everything up, and arranged the furniture and here’s the result! It’s not finished, but I can see the finish line from here!

Phew! We can actually live in the living room now! Paint colors for the wall are being planned, also I’m going to restore the bookcases with leaded glass windows.

[tags] built-ins, photos, plaster, furniture, paint, future plans, ceiling fan, flooring, living room, fireplace, cabinets[/tags]

Some shots of the hallway looking a little bit closer to being finished:

My plans for this area include:

• Stripping the woodwork
• Painting the walls a nice color
• Refinishing the floor
• Restoring the telephone stand and built-in cabinet/drawers

[tags]photos, hallway, flooring[/tags]

Let’s take a look at the list I made myself back in October or something.  I don’t think I’ve done very well. 

• Install gutter apron (PRIORITY ONE, ASAP) DONE!!!
• Finish landscaping wall some progress made
• Transplant hostas and ferns  not even close
• Make kindling bundles out of the sticks in the backyard  Does breaking some big sticks into smaller sticks count?
• Borrow a chainsaw and cut the logs that are too big for the wood burning stove  Found a couple friends with chainsaws!
• Finish the shed or at the very least gather all the pieces and move them inside Yeah, no. Snow covering all the pieces we left outside. 

*Sigh.*  I need a better list.