Renovations

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

I'm about to restart reno. Before it decided to be 95F with 90% humidity for like a month and a half, we started on the upstairs bedroom. Unfortunately, the previous owners were douchebags, and glued foam padding of the variety one typically finds in the basement all over the 2" antique barn board floors. After painting them white. Because that makes sense.

Dealing with strange choices of previous owners is part of the "fun." My own house was brought into town during the Great Depression, and the two additions were added somewhat later. So, some of what I see makes sense in that context. Other things, not so much. For example, the living room and bedroom are separated by a wall where the studs are 2x3's, not 2x4's. That was annoying to rip all of those studs when I closed up the extra door. What did that one inch save?

[Dave]

What did that one inch save?

A good deal after a mistake at the sawmill?

[hermes2015]

My house is 62 square meters (672 square feet) so it's a little more challenging.

I can see that would be quite a juggling act! Or more like that puzzle where you have to move boxes around. At least with this new sealer I used one can walk on the floors after 2 hours, which is useful because I had 5 coats applied.

[Dave]

Living in a "podium bed appartment", i.e. a poshly named bed-sitter with one room, about 3m/10ft by 4m/12ft, is a real challenge when it comes to decirating and a nightmare if recarpetting!

Add a two seat sofa, cupboard, five "bedside drawer units", TV table, another drawer unit, large computer desk, chair for last, folding tables and odds and sods.

Oh, heck, here are some pictures







You will notice that I posses the "clutter" gene. Also that, under my policy that everything has to have multiple roles, the ironing board doubles as a photographic studio-cum-work bench! Folding furniture is a must.

The curtain hides the bed platform, the wall over which serves as the "books-not-used-so-often" library. If the shelves fail I get crushed in my sleep!

Lived here since 1991, redecorated once, recarpetterd once - both just before my 1998 heart attack, when I was far fitter than I am now. But have rebuilt the kitchen since then, in 2001.

It's cosy, very cheap to heat.

[joeactor]

Wow. You must be an efficient person, for sure. I've watched "tiny house" shows, and the ingenuity that goes into multi-task items is amazing.

That said, it's not for me. I also have the "clutter gene"...

[Bad Penny II]

Wow. You must be an efficient person, for sure. I've watched "tiny house" shows, and the ingenuity that goes into multi-task items is amazing.

That said, it's not for me. I also have the "clutter gene"...

It doesn't look efficient to me, I don't even believe that Ottoman doubles as a storage device.
Why isn't there a decent floor to ceiling storage thing to hide away all the detritus?
Never mind me though, I'm just an angry old bastard with never a good word to say about anything.

[Dave]

Wow. You must be an efficient person, for sure. I've watched "tiny house" shows, and the ingenuity that goes into multi-task items is amazing.

That said, it's not for me. I also have the "clutter gene"...

It doesn't look efficient to me, I don't even believe that Ottoman doubles as a storage device.
Why isn't there a decent floor to ceiling storage thing to hide away all the detritus?
Never mind me though, I'm just an angry old bastard with never a good word to say about anything.

Dead right, BP, the footrest is solid foam. Used to have walls covered in bookshelves and a tall unit, but the place looked do cramped and dark, claustrophobic, I went for light. Wherever possible shelves are glass, the computer desk has a glass top and mostly white or silver furniture.

Since I usually have six things going at once, and I hate the "put-away-take-out-put-away..." thing, or putting a project away half-way through is not sensible, it all tends to stsy out til finished.

No, I'm just not yer tidy tyoe. But there has to be some logic to it.

[Bad Penny II]

I'm going to concede defeat on the water heater front tomorrow.
It's just an electric 250 litre tank.
Twenty five years, I fought while others'd conceded.
Long ago there was no thread for the elemental bolts.
Filed down nuts worked for a decade but not anymore.
A little hole, I could of fixed for a while.
I don't mind paying for a new tank but plumbers and 'tricians, that grates.