A few years ago, I purchased my house. It's a smaller house: 672 ft2. The previous owner was great at starting projects, but not finishing them. For example, the bedroom and living room both had only part of the floor installed. I ended up installing the rest. So, since I bought it, I've been working, with one year off due to some injuries. This year, my plan was trim around the doors.
Here is how it was when I moved in. There were 2 doors to the bedroom (yes, really) and the rug in the bedroom is because that was the part of the floor that had not been installed.
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I walled up one of the bedroom doors.
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After painting the bedroom I knew that the brown paint showed throw paint, so I primed first.
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Look what a difference painting the wall and ceiling made.
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This is what I've been living with.
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Even painting the doors and putting a new (old fashioned) doorknob on the bedroom door made a world of difference.
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And the completed project. I'll be doing baseboard in October. But, it's amazing how different all the different rooms feel with trim!
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Good feeling when it all works!
"Fresh paint: the smell of progress." Good stuff, Waski_the_Squirrel.
Very satisfying results. :)
Good work, Waski!
As one who has been through a lot of remodels, I applaud your hard work!
Looks very nice ;-)
Looks good, Waski!
Quote from: Recusant on July 29, 2016, 01:49:50 AM
"Fresh paint: the smell of progress."
:-\
Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 29, 2016, 09:54:40 PM
Quote from: Recusant on July 29, 2016, 01:49:50 AM
"Fresh paint: the smell of progress."
:-\
Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!
I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies,
there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.
Quote from: hermes2015 on August 01, 2016, 11:38:28 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 29, 2016, 09:54:40 PM
Quote from: Recusant on July 29, 2016, 01:49:50 AM
"Fresh paint: the smell of progress."
:-\
Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!
I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.
I found this too. I've painted the entire main floor, and while I could smell paint while I was painting, I had no problem sleeping or living with it. I slept in the bedroom while painting that room. (In a small house like mine, there aren't choices or other rooms to move the furniture to.) While the paint is drying, there is a faint ammonia smell.
In fairness, I paint in the summer. Since I don't have air conditioning, lots of fresh air comes through. But, even when I painted the basement I didn't notice much.
Quote from: Waski_the_Squirrel on August 01, 2016, 04:59:49 PM
Quote from: hermes2015 on August 01, 2016, 11:38:28 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 29, 2016, 09:54:40 PM
Quote from: Recusant on July 29, 2016, 01:49:50 AM
"Fresh paint: the smell of progress."
:-\
Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!
I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.
I found this too. I've painted the entire main floor, and while I could smell paint while I was painting, I had no problem sleeping or living with it. I slept in the bedroom while painting that room. (In a small house like mine, there aren't choices or other rooms to move the furniture to.) While the paint is drying, there is a faint ammonia smell.
In fairness, I paint in the summer. Since I don't have air conditioning, lots of fresh air comes through. But, even when I painted the basement I didn't notice much.
It is mid-winter here, but the days are not too cold: around 14 degrees C. I remember using polyurethane sealer in the old days before it got banned. That was really terribly overpowering.
The apartment is 160 square meters, so it is easy for me to move things around.
I tried a "low volatiles", basically water emulsion based, psint on a door.
Problem was things went wrong and it needed to be sanded down and redone. Ah, that paint does not sand nicely, got even rougher. Needed to strip it and start from scratch.
Oh! Paint stripper (all designed for oil based paints) does not even touch it. Where's the heat gun?
Bugger, it just goes black and hard!!!
:???:
The new door (precoloured plastic) looks nice . . .
:)
Quote from: hermes2015 on August 01, 2016, 11:38:28 AM
I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.
Quote from: Waski_the_Squirrel on August 01, 2016, 04:59:49 PM
I found this too. I've painted the entire main floor, and while I could smell paint while I was painting, I had no problem sleeping or living with it. I slept in the bedroom while painting that room. (In a small house like mine, there aren't choices or other rooms to move the furniture to.) While the paint is drying, there is a faint ammonia smell.
In fairness, I paint in the summer. Since I don't have air conditioning, lots of fresh air comes through. But, even when I painted the basement I didn't notice much.
We used a sort of white
metallic paint? I don't know if that's the proper word for it. It reflects light so that the room is lighter.
More expensive than regular paints and smells just as bad for the first few days.
Quote from: hermes2015 on August 01, 2016, 05:07:33 PM
Quote from: Waski_the_Squirrel on August 01, 2016, 04:59:49 PM
Quote from: hermes2015 on August 01, 2016, 11:38:28 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 29, 2016, 09:54:40 PM
Quote from: Recusant on July 29, 2016, 01:49:50 AM
"Fresh paint: the smell of progress."
:-\
Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!
I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.
I found this too. I've painted the entire main floor, and while I could smell paint while I was painting, I had no problem sleeping or living with it. I slept in the bedroom while painting that room. (In a small house like mine, there aren't choices or other rooms to move the furniture to.) While the paint is drying, there is a faint ammonia smell.
In fairness, I paint in the summer. Since I don't have air conditioning, lots of fresh air comes through. But, even when I painted the basement I didn't notice much.
It is mid-winter here, but the days are not too cold: around 14 degrees C. I remember using polyurethane sealer in the old days before it got banned. That was really terribly overpowering.
The apartment is 160 square meters, so it is easy for me to move things around.
My house is 62 square meters (672 square feet) so it's a little more challenging.
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.
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Quote from: Pasta Chick on August 02, 2016, 03:28:38 AM
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?
QuoteWhat did that one inch save?
A good deal after a mistake at the sawmill?
QuoteMy 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.
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
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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.
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"...
Quote from: joeactor on August 02, 2016, 02:33:28 PM
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.
Quote from: Bad Penny II on August 02, 2016, 03:16:33 PM
Quote from: joeactor on August 02, 2016, 02:33:28 PM
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.
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.