Some points of progress

Posted by dotjinks on Feb 28, 2010 in Restoration | 0 comments

We’ve been in and working on the house for a few weeks now and things are getting better! I’m posting some before after pictures of the master Bedroom closet door install and wall repair along with some before after crack repairs in the dinning room. The house has cleaned up well and now that the endless dust has stopped magically appearing on everything daily it is starting to feel more like a house than a dust-money pit.

In the Master bedroom there was a hidden room (behind a large armoire) and a partially closed hole that used to lead into another bathroom. SO, I closed the hole in the wall and put a closet door in for the entrance to the large walk in closet (aka hidden room). There was one extra 80+ year old door already in the house so I used that one for the closet door.

While I was at it I did some crack repair to a corner of the dinning room. We are testing using Heavy Duty Liquid Nails and fiberglass mesh tape to repair cracks in the plaster walls. Then applying a little drywall mud to smooth things out. These cracks are from previous work done to level the house and place it on a real concrete foundation.

We are still deciding on colors so it is too soon for plaster and there are plenty of cracks to repair between now and then.  Unfortunately that means holding off on replacing base boards, crown molding and trimming in doors and windows until after the walls have been repaired and refinished.  Well that’s it fro this update, we are taking lots of pictures and plan to publish more comprehensive details once we get some work done and have the time to do more writing . . .

Move in day has come and gone.

Posted by dotjinks on Feb 21, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

Here’s a collage of images from our move in day.

No active projects?

Posted by dotjinks on Feb 7, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

LOL, For the first time in years I have no active web design projects, but that is mostly due to our good fortune and moving schedule. We are moving into one of the coolest old houses we will probably ever live in and it needs some TLC. I’ll be back at it (web design) in April after I finish cleaning and repairing the immediate issues at our new (OLD) house. Until then I’ll keep posting about our moving adventures and some of our ‘This Old House’ styled fixer upper projects (hi-jinks) with material lists and photos.