Total remodel job - Repairs, Remodeling & Renovations

shan · #1 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 03:45 PM

Well we went and bought a major fixer upper. We signed the closing papers last Wed. and now we are gutting it. I figured I would start kind of a remodel journal that way when it is done I can see what I started with and what we finished with.

It is a small two room house and it looks like crap. But with a lot of sweat and work it will be like brand new hopefully by August.

shan · #2 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 07:55 PM

We are moving right along!! I have some pics, ok a lot of pics. I will start with what it looked like when we started then move to what it looks like now. There are no pics of the outside yet, but it is freezing cold out here and I haven't had the guts to stand outside and take them. I have to take them before this weekend because they are ripping off the back half of the house this weekend.

Here is the master bedroom:

I know it is really horrible looking now, but it will look better.

shan · #3 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 07:59 PM

Here is the bathroom. We are making this room K's room and moving the bathroom so it is next too the laundry room. The people who owned the house before landcontracted it to some lady who took just about everything she could get her hands on. Even the bathroom sink, some of the carpet and was just throwing trash into the basement. Yeah, we can't even get in the basement yet because the stairs are gone too.

shan · #4 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 08:02 PM

Yeah, she took some of the cabnets too. I don't understand anyone these days. This of course is the kitchen.

shan · #5 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 08:05 PM

You can see where they added on the back of the house and didn't do a very good job of it in the pics of the kitchen. When you look up in the kitch you can see sky because they put a tin roof on the house and didn't bother to care for it.

Here is the living room:

shan · #6 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 08:09 PM

That is what will be the bathroom, dh isn't a very good camera man. LOL He trys really he does. He has pics of his feet in a bunch of the photos, all you see are his feet. LOL

And this is the laundry room, or will be. I know it is small but we are going to add on a two car attached garage probably next year and put the laundry room in that. Then I will be able to use this room for something else, I am sure I will think of something.

shan · #7 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 08:12 PM

And here is what it looks like as of today

They haven't dropped off our dumster so everything is everywhere. LOL They tried to keep it contained to the bathroom/laundry room area, but that obviously didn't work.

heather6773 · #8 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008, 05:43 AM

Looks good Shan!!!

Wait till its all done you will appreciate it even more. We gutted each of our rooms and I took pictures of the paneling and shag carpet before we started. Its good to document and then look back. Then you know how far you've come. Your story about the lady reminds me of that movie where the older couple kidded the family about not getting attached to the windows cause they were taking them with them...don't get attached to the doors cause they were taking them with them....etc. well the family thought they were kidding until they moved in and found they had taken that stuff with them.

shan · #9 (**permalink**) 01-23-2008, 12:31 PM

Thanks Heather.

It is nice because I don't have to feel bad for pulling up perfectly good things to make the house my own. Plus we got it way lower than fair market value. I think we didn't even pay how much the land it came with was worth.

Always nice though being able to get it cheap then we can put more money into it while we are remodeling.

shan · #10 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 09:19 PM

We have the blue prints done. Here is some of them.

Here is the lay out of the whole house.

Here is Karma's bed and cubby holes above, and dresser beside. They are going to be built into the wall.

shan · #11 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 09:27 PM

Here is my Kitchen. This doesn't have the microwave over the stove, but that is where it is going. We are getting all stainless steel appliances. I haven't gotten my bathroom blue prints scanned yet or the laundry room. But this is what the kitchen is going to look like when we are done.

Csara · #12 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 10:10 PM

Everything looks like it will be beautiful!! This will be an exciting journey to follow along....can't wait to see all the pictures from during and after.

CC21 · #13 (**permalink**) 01-31-2008, 10:16 AM

Looks like you will have a lot of counter and cabinet space! Can't wait to see the finished product!! and more blueprints!

Turtleheadfred · #14 (**permalink**) 01-31-2008, 04:53 PM

WOW! And I thought I was bad about ripping things up! My problem is I do it while living in the house!!!

So are some of the walls knotty-pine paneling? I know you can't get that anymore... at least without spending LOTS of money - but some people don't like it.

And WHY would they take some of the cabinets? How bizzarre!!! But, I can't tell if the cabinets were good or not - so I guess it doesn't matter.

As for the carpets - I would always yank those out anyway so, oh well. And I don't like linoleum so again - something I would always replace regardless.

It looks wonderful... keep posting. I wish we had taken pics of our home when we first started working on it - but we didn't... MAJOR mistake on our part! But we know how far we've come... but we don't stop?!

shan · #15 (**permalink**) 01-31-2008, 10:43 PM

Thanks for stopping by ladies, I will get more pics including outside pics once dh decides to get me the camera back. The rest of the blue prints are too big to be scanned on the printer we have. I will get a color scheme for K's room though and put it on here. I am mainly basing her scheme of her room on her toy box she got for Christmas. Before the people who lived there moved in they redid the interior of the house so the bathroom sink/cabnets were new. The cabnets in the kitchen were new but because they didn't keep up with the roof they put on (tin roof that needed to be sealed yearly or by yearly not too sure but they didn't do it) some were warped but the ones that weren't damaged by the roof we will be using in the laundry room. We are putting in hardwood flooring in the living room, then we are going to do tile throughout the rest of the house. We would do the whole house in hardwood but due to the time frame we have put on finishing the house we won't be able to afford the hard wood in the whole house.

We have incountered our first problem, weather.

Isn't mother nature always figuring ways to delay things. Oh, well we still are doing our ordering and we are thinking of putting a shed out back to hold the building supples, due to the fact for the most part the house will be completely open when we really get going on it.