Well, I purchased the house for 125,900, and it's appraised for 139k. You all've seen the other post, so whatever. Anyways, after a month of remodeling we've come to a brief pause (Read: Ran out of money) so I thought I'd post up my progress so far! Here's some before/after pictures to show you what it looked like and it's current progress. This will also show you what it looks like not to have a photostitching application and being too poor to purchase a wide angle lens:
I mean it's not a terrible house, but look at the wasted space! the kitchen has tons of "I'm not doing anything" space. And all the ANGLES. I mean, this house puts The Angle Man to shame! there's angles at the bay, angles at the fireplace angles at the boxed beam and angles after the beam.
So we took out the wall:
It being a split level foyer it has the landing area, which is kinda ugly and it takes so much space. look at the cheap half wall in place of a proper railing/baluster. It makes everything feel so closed off, the steps small, and the carpet just looks CHEAP.
So how bout we do something to open it up? How bout that little port hole of a window above the door? Aye aye captain, is this a ship? Hmmm Lets change it!
Nothing's painted yet so eh. Red wood stairs, newells and rails, redid landing, half round arch and a nice door with some proper sidelights, topped with oil rubbed copper iron balusters. It'll look much better after paint.
And the angled ceiling? bye bye.
This is a coffered ceiling. on each corners are indirect flourescent lighting which angle up to give a soft light in the house... or rather, make it daylight in there.
I got some awesome deals on everything too. I'm going all Low E glass to conserve. There was a huge leaky aluminum 6ft sliding glass door, I got a smaller vinyl door to replace it with...
Low E2 Vinyl Sliding Glass door - 200
New Door (Slab only, Priced at lowes, 631) - 100
Frame - 75 / sidelights - 120/each
Half Round window (low e) - 137 (Sucker's over 400 bucks new!)
Next is to tear out the kitchen. I'm doing raised panel maple cabinetry, the top doors will be ceiling height, then I'll wrap around and create a bar area to separate the living/kitchen area, granite (or a synth granite) countertops then reinstall the fireplace with built-in-the-wall bookcasing side-by-side the fireplace. Above the mantle will sit a screen which I created and have my projector project there.
But as for now, I ran out of my money. Just waiting for my 8k to come in for my rebate, yay! I'm poor!
