Let the rehabilitation begin…

Since our house was a rental property for a few years, there were quite a few corners cut to achieve “quick fixes,” so much so that we are shocked the house isn’t a circle! So we started brainstorming over a glass of wine, and came up with a list of projects we wanted to do, and it looked something like this:

· Strip all of the painted trim back down to the wood

· Rip out the carpet upstairs

· Get rid of the tile on both fireplaces

· Strip wallpaper upstairs & downstairs

· Get rid of ugly textured ceilings

· Take the paint off the walls back down to plaster

· Repair plaster in all rooms

· Demo current linen closet in Bathroom

· Take out ugly tile in Bathroom

· Look into making 1 bathroom into 2 bathrooms

· Demo TERRIBLE tile in Kitchen

· Gut entire Kitchen & put in new cabinets and counter tops

· Repair termite damaged hardwood floors

· Put new hardwood in Kitchen

· Refinish all hardwood floors in house

· Demo laundry room floor & put in tile

· Repair foundation issues

· Replace structural beams w/ termite damage

· Put new insulation in Attic

· Add ceiling fans to bedrooms & family room

· Fix ALL electrical problems (knob & tube in attic)

· Repair all windows & restore window sashes

And the list kept growing! Little do we know that once we started projects they would not only become bigger, but also would spin off into other little projects. We set out initial move in date for October 31^st, 2012 and got straight to work ripping stuff out the Saturday after we closed!