Closets Project: The Results
The ugly master closet went from this… …to this! I knew exactly what I wanted for the closet long before doing the work. In fact, I’d bought the shelving unit 10 months prior to the actual renovation! The box was …
Month: January 2009
Closets Project: Painting and Sanding
Since this was mainly my Project, I had to learn to overcome my fear of heights (er, falling) and climb the ladder to reach the 9′ ceilings. I managed to do it only because there was always a wall nearby to “hang on to” …
Great Room Project: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch…
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October 13, 2006 The electrician finished his preliminary wiring! The left doorway in this photo shows the closet hallway before I started work on it. You can see the door to the Master Bedroom opened into the closet. The door on the right leads to the middle bedroom, or the "pink room" as we call it due to the pink painted walls. |
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This photo shows the window pass-through to the kitchen. When we removed plaster around this window, we encountered drywall and discovered the original window framing, which was taller than the existing one. At one time this window faced outdoors (possibly overlooking a porch) instead of indoors. When the kitchen addition was built, the window was shortened and shelves were added. I believe that the door to the kitchen (in the right of the photo) was once the back door to a porch. |
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Monte finished putting in the wall insulation and put up a plastic barrior in the ceiling. |
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October 18, 2006 Monte leaps for joy that the Great Room Project is now ready for drywall. (Due to the camera’s time delay, I couldn’t catch him in midair. Should have used video mode.) It’d still be three weeks before the drywallers could come, but that was okay because I was working hard on the closets… |
Closets Project: The Closet Hallway
October 2006 At the same time I was remodeling the master bedroom closet, I performed the same tasks in the closet hallway. And no, I’m not dyslexic and really meant to say "hallway closet." "Hallway closet" implies a closet in a hallway. What we have …
Closets Project: Master Bedroom Closet
October 2006 One thing bothered me about our Great Room Project: the closet hallway. This also corresponded with what bothered me about our previous Master Bedroom Project: the master closet. That is, we hadn’t included either in our refurbishing plans. My disturbance in this matter …
Great Room Project: Kitchen Door?
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September 2006 With the joist project finished, we found ourselves on hold for a couple weeks while we waited for the electrician to come do the wiring. So Monte decided that the back door in the kitchen–which was an ugly gray on one side and an equally ugly tan on the other–needed a paint job. |
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Monte went to Wal-Mart and picked the color himself. This picture makes it look a little more pink than it is. | |
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This is a better representation of the color. | |
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Coming home to a burgandy/purple door was certainly more cheerful than the old gray! |