Laundry room complete

We finished up the Laundry room the other day. Here's an old before shot:
Here are the finished shots:

I'll be replacing this back door with one similar to the Breakfast room back door.

I still need to paint the door on the left.

We painted the floor black, we'll see how well it holds up over time.

Brief update

I've finally started working on the house again. Most of it is just little things that aren't picture worthy so I dont have any new pictures today. I've started clearing out the house, I have way too much stuff in here to be able to work efficiently. I'm going to be taking a lot of stuff over to the Woodbury house to store it there temporarily.

I've been clearing out the laundry room. It was the kitchen for the second apartment for a long time. I've been using it as a storage room. I removed the 5 door cabinet from the wall above the sink and will be replacing it with a much smaller 2 door cabinet that matches the one above the washer. I'm hoping to be able to paint it this weekend. I'll be painting the walls a sage color and the floors will be flat black.

I'm also hoping to repaint the master bedroom soon. I've hated the color ever since I painted it over a year ago.


I'll be using the same tan that I used in the living room, the bedroom is a fairly dark room so it should benefit from the lighter color.

Kitchen ceiling done!

A lot was accomplished over the long weekend. I didn't quite get everything done that was on the schedule but it was still a very productive weekend. Scheduling the project out has really been a fantastic help. there is no way I would have gotten as much done as I did without it.

Guest bedroom number 2 was first on the list. This room was easily in the best shape of all the bedrooms. That's not saying that there wasn't a lot of work to be done though. First I had to move everything out of the room. Both guest bedrooms have been storerooms for the last 9 months. Instead of just dumping everything in guest bedroom number 1 I decided to organize it first. There was a lot of wood scraps and trash in there from using the room as a woodshop. Once it was organized and everything was moved over I scraped and sanded the walls. Once that was done I patched the bad parts of the walls with my usual mixture of drywall mud and sand.




I still have to patch a few small areas and sand. Hopefully the walls will be primered by tonight. We haven't picked out a color for the room yet either. We hope to have this room, the breakfast room, the foyer, and maybe the laundry room painted by this weekend.

The next project and one I've been avoiding for many months now was the kitchen ceiling. Over the last 4 months or so I made every excuse I could think of to not start on it. Once I finally did start it I finished in 2 days and it wasn't all that hard.



There are 2 parts to the ceiling, the part on the left in the first picture is underneath the upstairs guest bathroom. the part to the right is a fairly large attic space. I plan on making an access door from the guest bathroom into the space to use for storage.

I used R-19 for the part of the ceiling under the bathroom. R-30 will go down on the other part after I demo the upstairs guest bathroom walls. The wood is salvaged wood that I got last year before we even got the house. I laid alternating rows of 7" and 9" boards.



Most of the boards are pretty dirty so I'm going to scrub them down and then use some type of wood treatment on them like Murphy's oil soap. I might do a very light sanding and light coat of poly but I doubt it, I really like the patina of the boards as they are.

I also got a lot of small projects taken care of that had needed to get done for a while now. I installed the dryer vent in the laundry room. Everytime we would run the dryer it would become a sauna in the room, great when it's 30 degrees out, not so great when it's almost 90 out.

I installed the HVAC vent in the breakfast room now that the floor is down. Unfortunately I didn't get to hook it up to the system because the HVAC guys left the wrong sized ducting for me. On payday I'll be buying 6" ducting so I can hook it up. The back of the house gets hotter than the front because of the lack of the vent, the lack of the dryer vent, and because we didn't have the ceiling in the kitchen.


I finally moved the stove outlet to where it needed to go. It was directly between the cabinet I built and the stove, creating a large gap between the two. I moved it to under the stove, now both the stove and the cabinet are centered underneath the cabinets above them.


I also painted the little metal bistro set we got for free last year, it was painted some bright purple color. We're using it on our brick patio until we get a larger patio set, either wood or wrought iron.


I even had time to help Heather build her bird feeder for the back yard.


Next on my list will be to finish Guest bedroom 1, finish the Foyer, and finish the last kitchen cabinet then paint all of them. I hope to have all this done in the next couple of days.

The Laundry Room

Here is what will become our laundry room:



This was the kitchen in Apt. #2. It's a great room for a laundry room. this room appears to have been added on the teens or 20's. Another 4' at the back of the room was added on later, probably in the 50's when the place was converted to apartments.