Fridge on the porch. Boarded up window. Mantle leaning up against the house. Industrial-sized dumpster parked in the driveway. We're not quite at Appalachia levels yet, but we're working on it!
Hard at work!On the interior front, I think we turned the corner as far as our work (and our subcontractors') making things look worse rather than better. Most of the trim in the house has evolved from dark wood to shiny bright white. Rosin paper (and a thick layer of sheetrock dust) throughout the house is covering beautiful, mirror-finished red oak floors. The 1970's era paneling in the family room is now a nice white drywall. The downstairs ceilings - previously a great representation of 70's era style - are now nice and smooth, the swirly texture covered by approximately 900 pounds of joint compound!
Next on the agenda (or, Coming Soon!): cabinets in on Wednesday! After the cabinets are in, our granite fabricator will come in to make templates of the counters. We'll go to his shop in East Haven and decide which parts of the granite slab we've bought will become the island and other parts of the kitchen!
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So exciting :o) I can't wait to see it! And, if you don't mind me mooching off the work you've done and knowledge you've acquired... how labor intensive/costly was it to have that paneling taken down and replaced with drywall? We have quite a bit of the 70s left at our house and we dream of replacing it :o) Email me and let me know?
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