This the set of stairs leading up from the landing. I have such a cool idea for these steps and the few below this landing. But it will have to wait awhile. And, I am giving no hints.
The view looking down from the above stairs. I have yet another cool idea for that window which I hope to accomplish soon. I've got the supplies. Just waiting for a chunk of free time to accomplish it. I think it will turn out very pretty. Oh, and that cute little window seat I've got plans for too. Isn't it an adorable little nook.
This is the view toward the back/west side of the house. I wish this hallway were less narrow, but, oh well! Notice how the woodwork up here has not been painted over. I am in a dilemma about painting over woodwork. I like both looks but it pains me to cover up such beautiful wood. Well, right now it is so-so from years of careless dwellers. Even the picture rail has paint slopped on it. So my choices are paint over all of the wood or strip/stain and refinish. Ugh! The latter would be SO labor-intensive. And if I were to pay anyone else to do it, SO expensive. already I will have to have the floors done. They are in bad shape. The wood is ok throughout, more or less. But the finish is shot through the whole house. It definitely needs something. The other concern I have is how the sanding and fumes of redoing the wood will effect us the inhabitants, human and cat alike. Poor Oreo, my little asthmatic, might suffer.
Here's the view to the front/east side of the house. My daughters room. Yes that is vinyl you see on her floor. We all hate it, of course. It's just plain ugly and it bad shape. But that is not a pressing redo. There are other things that need attention first. Since this picture the room was redone. The walls toward the exterior of the house and the one you see toward the right side of the picture were demolished (below the picture only) rail to the studs, insulated, dry-walled, mudded and repainted. And the ceiling plaster was either patched or removed and redone with drywall, mud and paint.
Some more pics of her room.
The plaster on the ceiling of her closet has partially fallen away due to moisture getting in from the improperly flashed room around the chimney.
The following are of my son's room. There was little done to this room in the first phase of renovations. That tile you see will probably be a pain to removed. Incidentally, the floor below the vinyl in my daughter's room is wood but not good the kind to just finish. I am thinking of laminate wood flooring for her room and his. Again...not a pressing redo on those. One redo that IS important and I would like to accomplish next year is the insulating of the walls adjacent to the exterior of the house, like was done in my daughter's room. That is priority to minimize heat loss.
And hear is the master bedroom. It also lacks insulation in the walls. Rectifying that is a priority after my son's room.
See the door with the multiple glass panes? That led to an enclosed balcony for which there was not sufficient $ in the budget to renovate and was in such disrepair from water damage that it could not be salvaged. Alas! It would have been wonderful to keep. Now there is a window in that space where the door was and a roof over the bottom porch below. :( It was a sad moment to lose that balcony. But the upside was that once the window was installed the paint color couldn't be matched in my room and I ended up with my whole room repainted (pretty much the same color, which I happen to like).
The main part of the bedroom has this little nook off the west end of it. On the other side of the wall to the right is the full bath.
Said full bath. The ugly adhesive floor tile (poorly installed to boot) was replaced by a piece of new vinyl flooring, hand-picked by yours truly. I like it because it looks like sand and goes with the beachy/waterfall theme of the my shower curtain (not yet put up in these photos). The bathrooms and kitchen will be the most expensive renovations and those are years away yet, as far as I can see.
The last space for today's post is the spare room/craft room/multi-litter box room for my now THREE cats! The walls below the picture rail were redone the same way my daughter's room was (actually before her room). The reason the spare room was redone instead of my son's first should be apparent in the photos but if not, it is because the plaster was in such bad shape as not able to just be patched.
Like that fancy rope door handle? I have a spare door left behind by the former tenant that has hardware on it that matches the other hardware on the doors. But it is rusted right onto the door it is attached to. I have to find a way to get it off of there without damaging it or the door. I have ideas for that door.
That vent and the visible plumbing fixtures are now gone. I was told that the original homeowner's son took care of her and she lived primarily in this room. Hence the plumbing fixtures for a sink that had been in the room. So both the north bedrooms have insulation now in the walls toward the exterior of the house. Yeah!
Well, that wraps it up for today's post.
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