While I haven't written much about our renovation, it doesn't mean the boys haven't been over there busting their humps. I'm a lucky a girl. Here are their doings this past week.
Brady de-cabinet-ed the kitchen.
We'll be starting from scratch on the kitchen design.
The best part, is we're kind of agreeing on placement.
And while moving the outward plumbing for the upstairs toilet was declared too costly so therefore impossible.I got a 'sure that's do-able' on moving the kitchen sink and dishwasher placement. There also to my delight not much resistance in moving the kitchen window into a more user friendly position.
They are really making me say goodbye to my chimney exposure idea.
They are going to frame it up and stone it.
David wants the flat screen to be hung on it.
I'd prefer our main living area not to be centered around the TV.
If the kids get a say, I'm sure I will be out voted.
Goodbye cracked plaster!
Hello drywall and sealing up the walls!
Don't be offended if I don't miss you.
While we are agreeing on the kitchen design.
We are back and forth on this door.
An example of our general conversations:
Why are there two front entrances?
We probably will never use this door.
Does it go or do we keep it?
But it probably was an original aspect of the house.
Are you sure? Any word on older pictures of the house?
We discuss it and never really come up with a yes or no answer. Living in Northern Michigan, where we sometimes have brutal winter temperatures, the heat loss factor is the thought for doing away with a probably never-used secondary front entrance to our home.
A decision has yet to be made, so the drywall was hung around it, for now.
If my Soy-Gel paint stripper is as good as I hope it is, I might strip it and vote for keeping it.
The two beams are now in place.
I already picture them finished and beautifully stained.
They will have to make a 'faux post beam' to hide the plumbing that would be too costly to move. The 'Y' of this plumbing problem caused them to create this drop down that will be above our bar/island.
Small recessed lights will be added to it so our family dinner time will be well lite.
Each time I'm there, I get more and more excited to move this family into our old house.
Wow, quite the undertaking! Looks like your efforts will be well worth it. The faux beams will look good, we put some in our California house and they really make the room pop.
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