The Adventure Begins - The Plan
I bought my house in 2005. It's an older home, and I have spent the last 13 years dreaming of everything I wanted to do to change it.. This year is the year I decided to get started. Having my Dad move and help was part of my motivation.
The plan was to start with my daughter's room. We began 3 weeks ago. Yes, three weeks. So far we are about 800 dollars over budget, and my plans for having it 100% completed by Friday is now seeming to be an epic fail. I do plan on posting pictures, but I haven't gotten that organized yet. Most of them my daughter took and I need her to email them to me.
My daughter's room was 9 and a half feet by 11 and a half feet with a closet 3 feet wide and four foot deep. Alongside her room was a glorified hallway, which included her closet and in all is 7 feet by 11 and a half feet. It had three door ways entering into the area, and all it did was collect clutter. My plan was to remove her closet, enclose two of the doors and open the back hallway from the kitchen, increasing her room size significantly, and adding a bigger closet for a teenager of 14.
I work 7 days on and 7 days off, so my time to work on the room is limited to the weeks I am off. I figured we would demo in 1 day, it ended up being three days. We removed all the wood paneling to expose tongue and groove pine ship lap that I knew was under the paneling (everyone doubted me), and some old wallpaper which was nailed on with this fabric backing that ended up leaving a million stings attached to nails. After 13 years of bending nails and having to drill before hanging anything, I already know I have similar ship lap throughout the house.
I took a day to sand her wood floors. I bought a orbital floor machine to sand and screen the floors because I have several more to do and it is good for other projects I have. I didn't get the lowest grit sandpaper they had at the rental store, so I ended up with a good screen job but the finish was not completely removed. That was okay though, my plan was to stain it grey and pickle it because of dark pet urine stains I knew I couldn't get rid of. I wanted an aged wood look, and I think (I just finished and am waiting for it to dry to apply polyurethane) that I have achieved the look I wanted. I also think staining it first was a waste of time. I have a hallway floor to do next and I will just do the pickling and see if I was right before I move onto the living room floor.
The house has oil paint on all the trim and windows and it has been a yellow since the day I moved in. After painting the laundry room and finding out that latex and oil don't mix (it's been peeling for years now), I decided we would remove all the casings, floorboards and crown molding and replace them. I stripped the windows and interior casing for the door we kept. Part of the budget went to new doors for all the bedrooms and the bathroom, along with her new closet, with the plan on painting the hallway casings (after stripping) and doors a grey, and the walls white, because the hallway is always way too dark. The one door going into the hallway we sheet rocked and I am planning on doing a mural in it, and making it look intentional because the rest of the hallway is paneling (actually my whole house is paneling except for the bathroom), and I don't want to try and take it down and put up sheet rock with all the openings in it.
I am an avid watcher of HGTV and am just in love with the casual style of Fixer Upper, so I convinced my daughter that she had to keep two walls of ship lap. She wanted the other walls smooth, and we opted for a "flat hardwood" paneling available at Lowes for about 3 dollars less than sheet rock. It wasn't that easy to paint, but after drilling holes, I am no longer concerned that the paint won't adhere and be durable. Since her ceiling had two different ceiling tiles I had to come up with a plan for the ceiling. So we have taken the same paneling and cut it into panels and painted them white and applied them. We will be taking wood and attaching it to all the seems to create a "faux" coffer ceiling. That is the part I just don't see getting done by Friday. It's easy enough to do that I can do it after she has moved back in when I am off the next time.
I couldn't have done this without my Dad, but he had heart surgery in October, and he just moves at a different pace and timeline than I do. He did the framing for the closet and closed in the doors. One of the openings was a sliding door into the Living room. Since this was a ship lap wall, we have covered it with the same paneling and cased the area. Inside we have painted magnetic primer with chalkboard paint and we will be hanging a mirror in the center for that last check of her outfit before she heads out.
Part of the expense was new furniture from Ikea, that I get to put together on Thursday so the unpainted furniture, along with a few other items can get painted. If all goes well we can get the baseboards in late tomorrow night or Friday morning. She will have to put the room together this weekend though, because as much as I wanted to have it done, I just don't see my time allowing me to get that far. Since we started the planning for her room, she has come up with a plan for color and furniture, and I have tried to make it come true.
To be honest, the wood in the room ended up being much more than I expected (and had I used the local lumber store probably would have been 200-300 dollars cheaper than Lowes), so this room is making the rest of my plans have to go a bit slower. And after the long days I have spent on the room on my days off, I need a break.
The ship lap is painted white, the other main walls are grey except for the small wall which will be behind her headboard which is green. She insisted on painting the back of her closet green too, and the ship lap there is really pretty, though with all her clothes, no one will ever see it.
After we finish her room I will take a few weeks off and the work on the hallway (which is just painting and stripping) before tackling the next project, the main bathroom which is a hot mess. Overall the color scheme for the house will be white, soft grey and blues and greens because I am in love with teal at the moment, and I just love the beach cottage look.
I won't be getting any new furniture anytime in the near future, but I do plan on adding a new back door (the current one requires you go through a bedroom), closing in my porch to create a foyer, removing the paneling from the Living Room and having ship lap in there, redoing the floors in the living room that my mom's dog's pee pads have ruined (not replacing, but trying to conceal it some, that's why the foyer needs to be done, it's a cement floor), and sprucing up the kitchen and dining room with paint.
I hope to redo the kitchen in the next few years, so I will have to come up with economical fixes that I won't mind replacing later. Eventually, we will do the other two bedrooms, and next year get to the other bathroom. I have close to 800 square feet of sheds, so we will be converting one to a screen porch, one for Dad's shop, and the other will be a she shed. We plan on re-purposing the paneling we take out of the house (it isn't normal paneling, it's textured on one side and is plywood) for the she shed. We like the back better so we will be flipping it around and painting it when we do that. I am going to try and keep the projects as low as I can in cost, because there is no way I can afford to do all of them if I don't. So stay tuned, I will be sharing my experiences and before and after pictures.
The plan was to start with my daughter's room. We began 3 weeks ago. Yes, three weeks. So far we are about 800 dollars over budget, and my plans for having it 100% completed by Friday is now seeming to be an epic fail. I do plan on posting pictures, but I haven't gotten that organized yet. Most of them my daughter took and I need her to email them to me.
My daughter's room was 9 and a half feet by 11 and a half feet with a closet 3 feet wide and four foot deep. Alongside her room was a glorified hallway, which included her closet and in all is 7 feet by 11 and a half feet. It had three door ways entering into the area, and all it did was collect clutter. My plan was to remove her closet, enclose two of the doors and open the back hallway from the kitchen, increasing her room size significantly, and adding a bigger closet for a teenager of 14.
I work 7 days on and 7 days off, so my time to work on the room is limited to the weeks I am off. I figured we would demo in 1 day, it ended up being three days. We removed all the wood paneling to expose tongue and groove pine ship lap that I knew was under the paneling (everyone doubted me), and some old wallpaper which was nailed on with this fabric backing that ended up leaving a million stings attached to nails. After 13 years of bending nails and having to drill before hanging anything, I already know I have similar ship lap throughout the house.
I took a day to sand her wood floors. I bought a orbital floor machine to sand and screen the floors because I have several more to do and it is good for other projects I have. I didn't get the lowest grit sandpaper they had at the rental store, so I ended up with a good screen job but the finish was not completely removed. That was okay though, my plan was to stain it grey and pickle it because of dark pet urine stains I knew I couldn't get rid of. I wanted an aged wood look, and I think (I just finished and am waiting for it to dry to apply polyurethane) that I have achieved the look I wanted. I also think staining it first was a waste of time. I have a hallway floor to do next and I will just do the pickling and see if I was right before I move onto the living room floor.
The house has oil paint on all the trim and windows and it has been a yellow since the day I moved in. After painting the laundry room and finding out that latex and oil don't mix (it's been peeling for years now), I decided we would remove all the casings, floorboards and crown molding and replace them. I stripped the windows and interior casing for the door we kept. Part of the budget went to new doors for all the bedrooms and the bathroom, along with her new closet, with the plan on painting the hallway casings (after stripping) and doors a grey, and the walls white, because the hallway is always way too dark. The one door going into the hallway we sheet rocked and I am planning on doing a mural in it, and making it look intentional because the rest of the hallway is paneling (actually my whole house is paneling except for the bathroom), and I don't want to try and take it down and put up sheet rock with all the openings in it.
I am an avid watcher of HGTV and am just in love with the casual style of Fixer Upper, so I convinced my daughter that she had to keep two walls of ship lap. She wanted the other walls smooth, and we opted for a "flat hardwood" paneling available at Lowes for about 3 dollars less than sheet rock. It wasn't that easy to paint, but after drilling holes, I am no longer concerned that the paint won't adhere and be durable. Since her ceiling had two different ceiling tiles I had to come up with a plan for the ceiling. So we have taken the same paneling and cut it into panels and painted them white and applied them. We will be taking wood and attaching it to all the seems to create a "faux" coffer ceiling. That is the part I just don't see getting done by Friday. It's easy enough to do that I can do it after she has moved back in when I am off the next time.
I couldn't have done this without my Dad, but he had heart surgery in October, and he just moves at a different pace and timeline than I do. He did the framing for the closet and closed in the doors. One of the openings was a sliding door into the Living room. Since this was a ship lap wall, we have covered it with the same paneling and cased the area. Inside we have painted magnetic primer with chalkboard paint and we will be hanging a mirror in the center for that last check of her outfit before she heads out.
Part of the expense was new furniture from Ikea, that I get to put together on Thursday so the unpainted furniture, along with a few other items can get painted. If all goes well we can get the baseboards in late tomorrow night or Friday morning. She will have to put the room together this weekend though, because as much as I wanted to have it done, I just don't see my time allowing me to get that far. Since we started the planning for her room, she has come up with a plan for color and furniture, and I have tried to make it come true.
To be honest, the wood in the room ended up being much more than I expected (and had I used the local lumber store probably would have been 200-300 dollars cheaper than Lowes), so this room is making the rest of my plans have to go a bit slower. And after the long days I have spent on the room on my days off, I need a break.
The ship lap is painted white, the other main walls are grey except for the small wall which will be behind her headboard which is green. She insisted on painting the back of her closet green too, and the ship lap there is really pretty, though with all her clothes, no one will ever see it.
After we finish her room I will take a few weeks off and the work on the hallway (which is just painting and stripping) before tackling the next project, the main bathroom which is a hot mess. Overall the color scheme for the house will be white, soft grey and blues and greens because I am in love with teal at the moment, and I just love the beach cottage look.
I won't be getting any new furniture anytime in the near future, but I do plan on adding a new back door (the current one requires you go through a bedroom), closing in my porch to create a foyer, removing the paneling from the Living Room and having ship lap in there, redoing the floors in the living room that my mom's dog's pee pads have ruined (not replacing, but trying to conceal it some, that's why the foyer needs to be done, it's a cement floor), and sprucing up the kitchen and dining room with paint.
I hope to redo the kitchen in the next few years, so I will have to come up with economical fixes that I won't mind replacing later. Eventually, we will do the other two bedrooms, and next year get to the other bathroom. I have close to 800 square feet of sheds, so we will be converting one to a screen porch, one for Dad's shop, and the other will be a she shed. We plan on re-purposing the paneling we take out of the house (it isn't normal paneling, it's textured on one side and is plywood) for the she shed. We like the back better so we will be flipping it around and painting it when we do that. I am going to try and keep the projects as low as I can in cost, because there is no way I can afford to do all of them if I don't. So stay tuned, I will be sharing my experiences and before and after pictures.
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