Closet redo

It's been a while since I posted anything just because I'm lazy about posting, not because I've been sitting around doing nothing.( My inner child is going ya huh!)

This long Labor Day weekend was anything but labor free. I know you're supposed to take time off to relax and recharge, but we don't seem to follow any of the hard fast rules of life so why start now?

Any who this is what we did.

This is after we removed everything and knocked down the wall. Forgot to take a before pic. Duh!

When we remodeled the laundry room we decided this little area would be better if accessed from the closet. (meaning it was easier than trying to make what we had look good.)

Removed 2x4's on floor and walls then put up sheetrock on back wall where 2x4's used to be and now it looks like it was done this way on purpose. HA!

Then we painted everything and put the floor down.

Put old shelves back in, not freshly painted, because I didn't want to wait a week before setting anything on them. Besides you won't be able to see them when I am done anyway.

Are you ready for this?

This is what was in that 5' x 5' closet minus the bed.

Yes there is a bed in there and a coffee table and a chair and a night stand.

See! There is the bed.






So here it is all filled up.

Ta Da!

And that's how you relax at the Miskell residence!


Have a wonderful labor day, no matter how you spend it.

Laundry remodel

We finished remodeling the laundry room this last week.

It was ugly.

          Now it is not.

I have been living with this for about 6 years. The floor had that peel and stick tile and while it is great for some purposes, it doesn't always do well on older pier and beam homes. Many cracked, many did not stick and very many stuck too well.

                       My DH is going to build me a screen to hide the water heater.

  This has been the pantry since I was a little girl. Then after we remodeled the kitchen it became the storage    area for small appliances and extra stuff. And the place where my dogs spend the night.

We closed in that area and bought a new cabinet to put my small appliances in the top and all the dog stuff in the bottom.
We are going to reclaim that space in the closet on the other side of that wall.

This is what I am most proud of, my beautiful floor. It looks just like the kitchen and dining room, and someday the living room.( I can't wait!).

Kitchen Remodel before and after

My friend wanted a before and after from the same position.
Before

After from the same position

Big difference!

Dining Room Remodel

We finished the dining room remodel! At least the part that is part of the kitchen. If you look closely in this picture you can see that the little nook with the china cabinet in it is not finished. That is next on the long list of projects.

 

We had to remove all the wallpaper and wainscoting then float out all the various imperfections, which took forever.

But we finally got it done. It's not perfect but neither are we.

 We widened both the doorways and had to patch the floors in those areas. Probably the easiest of everything.
We installed the new light which matches the lights in the kitchen.

At the moment it is my favorite room

in the house. But then that changes weekly.

It was a lot of work but well worth it.

Dining Room Remodel

We started remodeling the dining room a couple of weeks ago.

This is what it looked like when we moved in.
Then we remodeled the kitchen and took down those half walls.

We finally got all that ugly wallpaper off the walls! Yea!

We made the door openings bigger.

We have put joint compound on the walls to make them flat and even, next is to sand and float them out.

Here is my camera shy sweetie.

Kitchen remodel day 2 & 3

Second day of remodeling.
Cabinets on the wall...

 

Third day of remodeling. No cabinets anywhere!

When we took the sink out and removed the cabinets we found trouble. Rot!

The drain pipe had a split in it, we think it may have happened when we had the house leveled last year. Some of the floor had to be replaced and a bit of the bottom plate for the wall.

                                  Thank goodness my sweetie is good at patching things.

Kitchen remodel

We started on our kitchen remodel on Sunday. We got quite a bit done tho it doesn't really look like it. Both half walls came down and we rebuilt the beam that spans the opening to the dining room. We also took down our pantry but I didn't get a picture of that. We are trying to take everything apart without being too destructive. You never know when you will need that 6" long 2x4.
I don't know when or where we will use some of the wood that is coming out of this remodel but the beam we built is from recovered wood from the porch we took down 5 years ago.

                                            Before

 

                                          After

 

Later this week we will start taking down cabinets and sheetrock and whatever tickles our fancy. Then we will be eating a lot of microwave dinners!  I am really dreading not being able to create feasts for my honey. I will just have to get creative with the microwave and toaster oven. 

                             

Kitchen remodel

This weekend we ordered the cabinets for my new kitchen. We have a lot of work ahead of us. I have been dreaming about this for five years and can hardly believe it is actually going to happen! We ordered beautiful new hickory cabinets. I have so many decisions to make. What kind of sink, lighting, faucet, paint...
This is possibly the biggest, most expensive remodel we have ever done. But it will be worth it.
This is what I have.

 

excuse the mess

 

It's not much, but its mine!

I will be posting pictures along our remodel journey. So keep looking in on us while we work our fingers to the bone. I think I already need a back massage just thinking about all the hard work we have waiting for us.

Bathroom remodel

We started this remodel of my Daddy's bathroom a year ago. Then he got sick and passed away.
We still have towel racks to hang and some trim work to do but it is quite a transformation.
Before

 

  

It was nice 40 years ago.

After

 

  

Sorry about the yellow tint.

I wish he could have seen it completed but he did get to see it in the works.