Our first home: 5290 Project
Summer time!
July & August brought the following exciting changes, starting with big ticket items:
- Master bathroom progress: setting up the shower base, waterproofing, tiling!
- 7.14.18 = WALL TAKEDOWN Day. I've been waiting to take this wall down since we configured the new kitchen/dining room... yes, since September!
- Miscellaneous
- Window replacements
- Island wall built
- Master bathroom pocket door installation!
- Window replacements
- Island wall built
- Master bathroom pocket door installation!
Master bathroom -
The master bathroom is taking shape :) Here's a little taste of where we've come:
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| Picture from Realtor.com |
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| Took down a few walls. Oh, and the fireplace separating these two rooms! |
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| Building the walls/framework of the master bathroom |
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| Sheetrock up. |
New window!
Okay, so that's all in the past. Now, we have walls, paint and even a soft-close AND soft-open pocket door (to be installed shortly, see below)! But, the shower needs some TLC (i.e. waterproofing, built-in shelves, plumbing... and then, TILE!).
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| Ready for waterproofing! |
Just like that: waterproof'd!
Except that it took 2 coats separated by ~12 hours and, essentially, 2 days.
Then, we tiled the floor of the master bathroom.
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| The 2x2 mosaic tile is a bit infuriating, but we both survived. |
The walls and grout will happen another day, or month.
Wall TAKEDOWN on 7.14.2018
This was a long time comin' - and, boy, does it look different! GREAT different!
Here's the kitchen from Realtor.com pictures:
We thoughtfully prepared for the demolition of the wall with the oven/fridge/microwave on it:
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| All available seating (church pew, table and chairs) in the house was moved to the living room. |
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| Fridge was moved into the master bedroom. |
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| Oven and one salvaged cabinet moved into the basement/bike shop cave. |
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| Pantry to the basement as well. |
Got 'er all cleaned up, threw down some cardboard and, in a matter of hours, the wall was gone!
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| BEFORE removal of appliances... |
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| AFTER removal of appliances. |
Time: 7/14/18 at 12:11 PM
Time: 7/14/18 at 1:19 PM
Time: 7/14/18 at 3:34 PM
Here are a few BEFORE/AFTER from different viewpoints:
From the front entryway/door:
From center:
Took out the upper cabinets and called it good enough. For now.
Next up, replacing windows!
Kitchen window #1 (removed).
Kitchen window #2 (replaced).
Needs to be a bit shorter because that's where the sink will be in the new kitchen design!
Finally, living room windows (x2) - just straight up swapped out for newer and better:
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| Giant window that Canyon looooooves to look out. |
Built up the wall where the kitchen ISLAND will be!
Lasty, Sam's fancy soft-close and soft-open POCKET DOOR installation for the master bathroom!
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| I regret not getting a video of the smile on Sam's face when he watched it open and close for the first time. |
I think that about covers July and August...
