It’s that time again. We’ve done it before. We’ve done it in the kitchen. We’ve done it in the living & dining room. And now we need to do it in the bedrooms. We just cannot hold it any longer. You know what I’m talking about, do you? Of course you do. It’s time to …
Putting up a metal stud frame for a ceiling, again… Read More »
I ripped up the walls to put new wiring in place. I took down some old plaster because it was either loose (in the bay window), or damaged from water intrusion (thank, Roof Guy). Now the time had come to fix it all, so we had pristine plastered walls again. The basics The process of …
Remember the very last line of the ceiling demolition? The one where I claimed I was done eating dust? Turns out I was wrong. Oh so wrong. I forgot we still had to talk about the new electric wiring and all that accompanies that. As we have a full on brick only type of house, …
With the original ceiling all gone, it was time to think about what needed to be done before we could start working on the drywall of the new ceiling. After all, this is a job I don’t want to repeat anytime soon, so we decided to go all out. Reinforcements When walking on the second …
After cleaning out the rooms in last post, the time had come to take it one step further. The time had come to remove the old ceilings completely. Mind you, this was a decision we did not take lightly. I’m not a fan of renewal for the sake of renewal, so if I see a …
Creating a clean slate on the first floor, part two! Read More »
Now that the living – dining – kitchen space was pretty much ready for use (leaving out some minor details to be finished), the time had come to aim our efforts at the rooms on the first floor. As the saying goes, it first has to get worse before things get better. Ergo, time to …
We continue with the floors on the first floor in this post. After removing all the carpet (still very glad that it’s gone) we were left with glue remains everywhere. As we were planning to have the tiles bare for some time (so that we could use the rooms while tackling the ground floor), it …
Back in the days when the previous owners did their remodelling, carpet was the next hot trend. So what we got stuck with (quite literally) was a first floor completely covered in a dark greenish carpet, full of dust that had been collected over the years, some stains from God knows what, some leftovers of …
When you enter somebody’s house, one of the things you really cannot not see is the paper or paint against the walls. As we mentioned before, our house underwent a renovation when the previous owners moved in, some 30 to 40 years ago. While they had been really playing it safe downstairs, with some kind …