House Remodeling Thread (long)

[Irulan]

Very nice!
The peaked roof over the garage was so awkward looking, your new design is so much nicer.

Thanks. We had an architect do the design . We knew what we wanted, but we wanted objective input, and something that didn't look like it was drawn on the back of a paper bag.

[Irulan]

before/after

[ny biker]

Very nice!!!

[Catrin]

Very nice indeed! Nice expansion, and I love the new siding, colors, and trim!

[TrekDianna]

Wow, that looks great!

[jobob]

That's fabulous, Irulan.

We need to repair some cracking stucco, replace our garage door and repaint the house. I need to do some hunting around on Angie's list & such, but I'm kind of paralyzed. This thread may help me get my butt in gear.

[ny biker]

After tackling a list of smaller items -- replacing all the doorknobs and hinges, replacing all the light switches and electrical outlets, replacing two locks which required redrilling holes in the doors, installing a sweep and threshold for my front door that actually keep the cold air out, replacing a bifold closet door, replacing the grills for the HVAC vents -- I am almost ready to have the living room/dining room, hall and bedroom painted and then have new wood floors installed. I just need to find a color I like for the bedroom. I had picked out a nice shade of blue but after painting some posterboards with test paint and putting them on the walls, I've decided I like it in sunlight but not so much in lamplight.

Then the other night I realized -- the couple who live in the condo below me will be having a baby, their first child, in less than three weeks. It would be downright cruel to bring noisy contractors onto their ceiling right now. So I'm going to wait a couple-few months to let them get through the newborn stage, then I'll let them know what I'm planning. They have a ground floor condo and their bedroom is in their finished basement two floors below me, so most of the time I think they'd be insulated enough from the noise down there. But I think there will be at least a few days where the noise level might be loud enough for them to consider making plans to visit a friend or relative during the day while the work is happening.

In the meantime, I can obsess about blue paint.