Showing posts with label renovating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label renovating. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Office - Complete!

When M&J were discussing what was needed in their future home, an office was a must. M works from home for a national commodity association, so he needed a place to store his supplies, work and keep all his things separate from J's.

The home has 3 bedrooms, so it worked out perfectly to have their master bedroom, a guest bedroom and an office for M. By process of elimination, the "airplane" room became the office. There was a beautiful (please note the sarcasm, here) blue color painted on one wall in the airplane room. Thankfully, the three other walls in that room had already been painted white over the gorgeous primary yellow color. M&J always talked about putting purple in a room (We are K-State Grads, after all...) and so by elimination, the purple was painted over that AWFUL (I'll just come out and say it) blue. 

 The Airplane Room - Before
(Take note of the curtains, the blue wall
and the traces of yellow behind the white walls)

 Yay for Blue!

 The Optional Shades of
Purple and Taupe for the Office Walls

Before Picture of the Closet and "White" Wall -
Notice all the yellow paint along the baseboard

 After the Closet was Repainted

 There's that Purple and White - GO CATS!

 After the Brown Paint

 New Light, New Paint
(The hole in the wall is the access to the bathtub in the full bath.)

 After the Carpet was Removed - No Sanding Done

 Installing a New Floor Vent in the Office

The Office - After Furniture, Before Decor

After the floors were complete, we moved in a rug and M's furniture as soon as possible, as he had been without an actual work space for a few months. He was very happy to finally have a desk, a permanent place for his printer and storage for all his supplies. Although the furniture is mismatched, it all serves a purpose and will eventually be replaced with something more functional and a little easier on the eyes...

Monday, March 28, 2011

Half Bath - Complete!

Our half bath ended up being quite the project.

We started with this:


Note the beautiful lights surrounding the mirror (there was always a solid 5 seconds between the time you flipped the switch and when the light actually came on). In the first photo, you can see the large cabinet that sat right inside the doorway. It was so large that the knees of J's very short legs touched the side of the cabinet. Not good.
We pulled out the large cabinet, followed by the vanity cabinet. Once those cabinets were out, we tore out all the laminate.

We followed by removing the lights and the vanity cabinet and patching the hole where it once sat.
The next morning, we uninstalled the sink and as we were trying to remove one last pipe to replace it, it ripped in half and dropped a big bomb on our plans to renovate this half bathroom in one weekend.
 The old sink.
 Hmm... no wonder it practically fell off when we tried to uninstall it. Talk about corrosion...
 After the paint job, but prior to the new light installation.
 One of J's big contributions for the half bath - painting the trim.
 Not sure if there was more paint on J's hands or on the trim.
M, with the help of a friend, fills in tile backer.

 Installing the new light fixture.
 Definitely an improvement!
Installing the bead board to cover up the textured wall after we chipped off the pink plastic tiles.
 Installing the vanity.
Getting the new toilet ready to be installed - wonder how many people laughed as they drove by and looked into our open garage!?!
 Putting together the new toilet and getting it ready to install.

And we ended with this - the finished product! It was definitely a big project, but we're glad to have a new room that is complete, clean and has a modern look.