Cornado Way Water Closet Renovation Begins

Before and After - Hallway

Before and After - Back Bedroom

Before and After - front bedroom / office

Before and After - wall/mantel

Before and "after for the time being" - Kitchen

Kitchen before: pink and purple and linoleum. Enough said.

Kitchen midway: eradicated pink and purple with lime green (really the only remedy) and tore up the linoleum. I immediately regretted that we tore up the floor, for obvious reasons.

'G' did an incredible job getting that crap off the floor, and then spent an hour scraping it off his sneakers.

Woodford Project 2010: New Kitchen?

Before and After - Living / Dining

Before and After - dining room

Great Crew! Great Food!

Electrical Box: Before and After

Catching up: "Garage" Door

before...

after, more or less.

Catching up: Fence

Catching up: Floors

so, if ya'll recall, we found original hardwood floors under grey carpet that smelled like grandma (the carpet, not the floors, and not my grandma, for the record). We also found that there were two big patches separating the living from dining areas where a wall had once been, as well as a big patch near the kitchen. I got on the BBB website and called up a hardwood floor repair/refinish place, and while we can't in good faith recommend the company because of the jackass owner and shotty patch job, it turned out beautiful! ('after' pictures to follow - I sware)

scribbles on the floor are there to map where the 'lacing' guy was supposed to remove and replace boards to make the patch in the floor (where there once was a wall) disappear. He didn't do it right the first time. Or the second time. Third time's a charm.

This guy, "G", is an ex-Pro Turkish Soccer Player who came to town on a scholarship to study plant genetics for his Masters. He rocked sanding and finishing the floors, told some good stories, and we all loved him. He even had his sub-sub contractor sand our back entry stairs, for free (assumably because jay tore up the nasty carpet on them to expose all kinds of hazardous glue and linoleum and lead paint, and G felt sorry for us)

sanded raw wood floors.

bits and pieces of an old house

one week in. oh my..

found: 6 new razor blades, a handful of chewed and spit sunflower seeds, brown shag carpet remnants, and an unopened christmas card from 1993 marked 'return to sender'

(no money inside)

coastal beige

there goes the kitchen floor. oh no.

texture. texture. texture. texture.

check out where there used to be a wall. drat!

the architect working up a sketch for how to proceed.

the best seat in the house. by far.

union requires us to let them rest for 15 minutes every 4 hours.