Renovations

Our year-long renovation project for Madelyn’s room and our guest bathroom is nearly complete. Here’s what we did:

• Scraped off the awful paint jobs–latex over oil without surface prep, and a serious leak, made for horrendous cracking and alligatoring. We found that the ceiling was wallpapered, it was so bad. (Ugh.)
• Removed all the wood we could–baseboards, trim, and doors. All of it had been painted. We removed (scrape, sand, dynamite) the paint, stained everything, and clear-coated it.
• Hired a roofer to fix the leaks for good.
• Hired Glenn Coons to skim-coat and prime both rooms.
• Erin picked lovely yellows, and we painted.
• Installed replacement windows (double-hung, double-pane).
• Cleaned and remounted the door hardware.
• Remounted the trim and rehung the doors.
• Installed a new ceiling fan.

What’s left?

• Set all the nails in the trim.
• Install quarter-round at the baseboards once the floor refinishing is complete.
• Rewire that side of the house so the entire bathroom is on a single GFCI circuit, and the bedroom on its own feed.
• Touch up the paint.
• Touch up the finish on the built-in cabinets.

Of course, this means it’s time to start some other projects, home and otherwise. Yeehaw.