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Bathroom Renovation | Master Bath
Bathroom renovation #2 coming right up. In my last post, I shared the guest bathroom project with you (check it out here). Now that we had a fully functioning bathroom upstairs, we set our sights on the master bath that would complete our master suite. We Need a Master Suite! There was only one shared bathroom upstairs when we bought the house and we knew it only made sense to eventually move the upstairs laundry room to the basement and create a new guest bath that would allow us to then create a private master bath. We would install a pocket door in the wall between the main bathroom and…
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Bathroom Renovation Introduction | Guest Bath
Who’s ready for some bathroom renovations? I hope you are because we have three, yes three, bathrooms to tackle. And in this post, we’re going to look at the first one; the guest bath transformation. This bathroom came the furthest in terms of transformation because well, it didn’t start out as a bathroom. It should have been a bathroom but the original owners decided to turn this space into a laundry room instead. Laundry or Bath? Bath! Now I get the convenience of having a laundry room on the same floor as the bedrooms but leaving this space as a laundry room meant there would ultimately be only one bathroom…
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From Mudroom to Pantry!
The kitchen in our Young Victorian was pretty big. You would think a pretty big kitchen would also come with a pretty big pantry. Okay, how about a pantry, a pantry of any size? Nope, no pantry in this beauty. The kitchen ended up being pretty darn special; at least we loved it. You’ll have to jump over to my other kitchen posts, here, here, here, here and here to see what all we tackled in the kitchen. During our planning phase, we tried to figure out how to resolve this pantry-less kitchen situation. We were already planning to use our upcycled bedroom armoire as a coffee/breakfast nook (which I…
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Tiling On
As one by one, each of the rooms within our Young Victorian began to emerge as finished spaces, life was getting exciting! All of our hard work to make this sad, neglected house meet up to the vision we first had for her was paying off. We were certainly beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel by the end of year one of the renovation. It was time to turn our attention to some of the final touches to both the foyer and living room. And that means it was time to lay down some tile in the (newly created symmetrical) foyer entryway and the newly…
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Kitchen Renovation; Nearly There!
With the exterior of the Young Victorian completely transformed with a new roof and new siding, we were feeling pretty good about the progress of the overall renovation project and were now ready to finish the kitchen renovation. So let’s get the kitchen buttoned up, shall we? We’ve talked about the major decisions about the general design, our decisions regarding the flooring, cabinets, countertops, and our huge kitchen island. What’s Left? At this point, we’ve got a few more things to finish up in this kitchen renovation. The remaining countertops, getting the antique sink installed, cladding the range hood and backsplash are all on the agenda. We get these things…
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Selling Our Young Victorian; a Bittersweet Time
I can’t write one more detail, describe one more project, or pick-up where I last left off without first talking about where we are today. Reliving the renovation of our Young Victorian up until this point, has been so much fun. Fun because I would be writing from my desk in my finished office and I could walk through our finished home, and I was on the other side of the renovation and left with nothing but pride and joy for the home Warren and I had created. Revisiting the renovation has been a delight and a fun reminder of our progress. A New Season But today, I’m not in…
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Siding and a Side of Various Projects
Yay, the new roof was finally finished and now the work on the siding could begin! But before we relive the siding story, I must take a moment to update you on where we are present day. Spoiler Alert: as I sit here writing this post, I sit in an 800 square foot apartment in the Denver metro area. What? Yep, we are two days into a brand new season of life and two days beyond the sale of our beloved Young Victorian. It is September 2020 (yeah, best year ever, will say no one ever) and several months ago, we made the bittersweet decision to sell our home. I’ll…
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Exterior Transformation: New Roof
Once the contractor found a crew brave enough to install the new roof (read about crew #1 and their fear of heights here; yeah, roofers with a fear of heights, that’s a thing), the roofing project could officially begin. Nails Are Forever! If you’ve ever had a new roof installed then you know what a mess it makes. The contractor promises to carefully go over your property with a magnet to remove wayward nails and clean everything up. So while the mess is being made, you think they have it all under control. Old roofing materials (and nails) are flying every which direction, but it’s okay (I kept telling myself,…
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Never Ending Projects
Never ending projects, that’s what it felt like in those days. In the last post, we talked about choosing roofing and siding and I mentioned that we would be faced with delays on both those projects. Yeah, well those delays amounted to about three months. But it wasn’t like we had any downtime during that time of waiting. There were plenty of other projects to keep us busy! Never Ending Projects; Will We Ever Be Done? There was more wallpaper to pull, I’m sure. Walls to prep and paint. Basement shelving to build and install. Weeds to pull, lots of weeds to pull outside. Property to mow. A window to…
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Roofing and Siding Projects and Decisions
The shock wore off the unexpected need for roofing and siding (click here if you missed the details), and it was time to decide on who we would hire for the projects and decide on the materials that would be used. Choosing the Details We focused on the siding first since the color of the new roof would depend upon the siding color. Ultimately, we chose a slate blue/grayish color scheme for the projects. We chose James Hardie siding which would come with wrapping and foam insulation layers under the actual fiber-cement pre-colored siding. Extra insulation is a good thing when you live in the mountains of Colorado! With new…
