My house
I'm pretty proud of how I've transformed my house so far. The first column of photos is the state of the house when I bought it, and the second (sometimes also the third) column is the same shot taken a few months later. Some of the shots I took I don't have a "before" version for, and they show up in the first column, but they're pretty obvious.
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May 12, 2007
Well, I'm pretty much done all the major projects. Let's see, this is what I've managed to accomplish since August:
- Had a new roof put on
- Upgraded the service line, got a breaker box to replace the fusebox and added an outline in the kitchen
- New hot water heater
- Removed carpeting from downstairs and upstairs
- Refinished the floors in living room and dining room, and two bedrooms and hallway
- Tore down the suspended ceilings in the two bedrooms and patched up the plaster underneath
- Painted the living room, dining room, hallway, two bedrooms, attic stairs and bathroom, in my various crazy stripey designs
- Built out a shower and tiled the walls and floor of the bathroom -- okay, so I hired Felix (Felix's Contracting, 412-953-9728) to do a lot of the work here, but I contributed a fair share doing the prep work and then working with him, and Stuart even helped a bunch, too
- Tore out all the enormous overgrown shrubs clogging up the yard
- Hired Jeff Barricella (Jeff's Contracting, 724-531-3195) to pull out the sidewalk that was taking up space in the back yard... that was fun to watch
- Removed all the rocks that were the footing for the sidewalk, regraded the yard and built some retaining walls
- Planted my garden and berries and seeded myself a new lawn
That leaves just a bunch of smaller projects for this summer, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!
