Tie-backs arrive to-day
After Marisa and I did some reshuffling--me with furniture, Marisa with various supplies and objects, our house interior is looking better and better.
Note: We also managed to find a new owner for our previous A/V cabinet. I don't think I mentioned that in posts, so will insert that here. I offered the teak Danish cabinet with sliding doors on Craig's List and one person even offered money (I was willing to give it away). They were also interested in our "Sputnik" lamp and said I would give them the "spare" that was in our basement if they were interested in fixing it (one piece needed to be soldered or welded back on, and one lamp base needed repair). Anyway, thanks to Craig's List we found happy owners!
To-day the tie-back hardware (matches the drapery rod I got last week) should arrive. I hope to have enough energy after work to-day to install the rod and tie-backs for the other window in the living room.
To do eventually:
* pull another 3 foot roll of carpet from the living room. This requires pulling carpet from around a vent. I am unsure of how that will work. I want to wait on this until after April 2 (or so) when I get a rubber carpet transition strip. I will use this temporary transition from the foyer into the living room and the dining room (no nails to apply). Once I have that I can cut out the carpet from the living room and pull the rug into the center of the living room (right now the rug itself is serving as a transition).
* cut and finalize the data/audio/video port in the living room. Right now it is just hanging there: very ugly.
* pull another section of carpet from the dining room. Again, this pulls carpet from around a vent, but after the living room experience I should have this down. This should get the carpet out to a line with the tall book cabinet.
Eventually I want to pull all the carpet out.
The foyer and dining room need new floors.
I am reticent to do the foyer because of the longer-range plans to build a new set of stairs that meets code and goes to basement. That will change the floor plan for the foyer somewhat. I would like the foyer to be the crowning part of the renovation with a parquet hardwood floor specially cut and designed.
The dining room, however, I think I can proceed upon at any time once I have all the carpet off.
For there I would like to a standard hardwood floor install (not laminate floor). The number of types of wood for this is incredible--maple, oak, cork, bamboo. I lean toward bamboo right now.
The upstairs bedrooms all have fir flooring. I need to pull the carpet from the other two bedrooms. The closet space has plywood topped with carpet. There is obviously something wrong there but not rushing in to do anything about it: it is a closet to-day!
The bathroom vinyl is peeling off and it looks like mold underneath. Yarg. Yet, I really want our bathroom to change so don't want to rush in to do that without careful consideration about how we are going to deal with our 2nd floor.
The kitchen vinyl is similar...burn holes in one place, warped vinyl in several places, gouges elsewhere. The half-bathroom has old vinyl flooring with similar issues...and is ugly. However, like the upstairs bathroom area, we want to do something different with the kitchen and half-bath.
Once we get the stairs to the basement we can remove the hatch in the back room. That might allow us to re-locate the half-bathroom. Then we can restore the kitchen to a full room with a pantry and put in a good, long-lasting floor.
The one side of the hallway with closet, bathroom and bedroom...we can turn into a bedroom suite with walk-in closet and bathroom.
That is my dream anyway.
Note: We also managed to find a new owner for our previous A/V cabinet. I don't think I mentioned that in posts, so will insert that here. I offered the teak Danish cabinet with sliding doors on Craig's List and one person even offered money (I was willing to give it away). They were also interested in our "Sputnik" lamp and said I would give them the "spare" that was in our basement if they were interested in fixing it (one piece needed to be soldered or welded back on, and one lamp base needed repair). Anyway, thanks to Craig's List we found happy owners!
To-day the tie-back hardware (matches the drapery rod I got last week) should arrive. I hope to have enough energy after work to-day to install the rod and tie-backs for the other window in the living room.
To do eventually:
* pull another 3 foot roll of carpet from the living room. This requires pulling carpet from around a vent. I am unsure of how that will work. I want to wait on this until after April 2 (or so) when I get a rubber carpet transition strip. I will use this temporary transition from the foyer into the living room and the dining room (no nails to apply). Once I have that I can cut out the carpet from the living room and pull the rug into the center of the living room (right now the rug itself is serving as a transition).
* cut and finalize the data/audio/video port in the living room. Right now it is just hanging there: very ugly.
* pull another section of carpet from the dining room. Again, this pulls carpet from around a vent, but after the living room experience I should have this down. This should get the carpet out to a line with the tall book cabinet.
Eventually I want to pull all the carpet out.
The foyer and dining room need new floors.
I am reticent to do the foyer because of the longer-range plans to build a new set of stairs that meets code and goes to basement. That will change the floor plan for the foyer somewhat. I would like the foyer to be the crowning part of the renovation with a parquet hardwood floor specially cut and designed.
The dining room, however, I think I can proceed upon at any time once I have all the carpet off.
For there I would like to a standard hardwood floor install (not laminate floor). The number of types of wood for this is incredible--maple, oak, cork, bamboo. I lean toward bamboo right now.
The upstairs bedrooms all have fir flooring. I need to pull the carpet from the other two bedrooms. The closet space has plywood topped with carpet. There is obviously something wrong there but not rushing in to do anything about it: it is a closet to-day!
The bathroom vinyl is peeling off and it looks like mold underneath. Yarg. Yet, I really want our bathroom to change so don't want to rush in to do that without careful consideration about how we are going to deal with our 2nd floor.
The kitchen vinyl is similar...burn holes in one place, warped vinyl in several places, gouges elsewhere. The half-bathroom has old vinyl flooring with similar issues...and is ugly. However, like the upstairs bathroom area, we want to do something different with the kitchen and half-bath.
Once we get the stairs to the basement we can remove the hatch in the back room. That might allow us to re-locate the half-bathroom. Then we can restore the kitchen to a full room with a pantry and put in a good, long-lasting floor.
The one side of the hallway with closet, bathroom and bedroom...we can turn into a bedroom suite with walk-in closet and bathroom.
That is my dream anyway.