The House Transformation Project

More progress was made with floor removal this week.  It is now complete and the cleanup has begun.  We also arranged for the new roof and advanced with windows/doors and cabinets.  Demolition is nearing the end with only specific targeted areas left. Foyer - Original Foyer - Week 2 Removed chair rail and began  wall repair. Foyer - Week 3 Completed wall repair.   Removed  chair rail. Primed walls and  mouldings.   Caulked mouldings. Foyer - Week 4 Removed wood floor and  subfloor.  Removed mouldings. Foyer - Week 5 Cleaned up nails in floor.

 This week was one step but several steps forward.  I tried to take up the wood floor in the great room and discovered that it was glued to a chipboard subfloor.  The effort to get 3 feet of floor removed told me that this was not the best use of my time.  We hired a crew to remove all of the floors on the main level down to the lowest subfloor.  It will take them several days and several tons of debris, but we will have a single level of flooring on which to build.  With 2 wood floors, tile floors, carpet, and vinyl floors, the layers were at different levels. At the same time, we changed our thoughts on the mouldings.  We originally planned to keep the traditional mouldings but paint them white to update the look.  As our decorating plans evolved, we decided that a craftsman look appealed to us.  So I ordered the crew to take it all down.  That means the priming and caulking we had done was wasted effort.  Luckily, we hadn't m...

Photos taken Monday, October 28. The first week of our renovation work is in the books.  Our work schedule looks like it will follow a similar pattern.  We will work a full day on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.  Wednesday will be "shopping day" where we visit vendors to get bids, buy products, and see options with our own eyes.  Saturday is college football day and we will take that day off to rest.  Sundays will be light work after church. My first task was to get all of the stuff off the walls.  This includes curtains, blinds, shelves, hangers, etc.  It took a full 2 days just to get the walls to a starting point.  The parts nearly filled a drawer. It did make an immediate improvement in the appearance of the rooms. Foyer Closet - Week 1 Removed wallpaper. Great Room - Original Great Room - Week 1 Removed blinds and hardware. When all the walls were cleaned of hardware, we started on more diffic...