We Covered Everything

While my website was in development I had two reasons to launch this blog.  The first was for me.  I wanted to have a record of my experiences.  The second reason is for self-promotion.  I want you, reader, to know more about what my team and I do.  I want to set myself apart from the competition and make a personal connection with you, so you will be more excited to hire us.  I get great satisfaction from writing these entries, and I have succeed in my goal of making this a personal experience for the reader.  A reader of this blog hired me because of this blog, and I was hired to do a very large job, which I will describe below.

Somewhere along the line, this c. 1920 suburban Philadelphia 3 bedroom house was not treated very well. Someone covered the plaster ceilings with drywall, then coated the ceilings and walls with a deep swirled texture.  Everything was painted a pale yellow.  Plus there were carpets throughout the house.  My client and new homeowner had a vision to bring this house back to life.  I will take you on a room by room tour of the cosmetic rehabilitation of this house.

Bedrooms 1 & 2
We skim coated the ceilings and walls of these 2 small bedrooms to eliminate the heavy swirled texture that you may be able to see in the 1st photo below.  After sanding, priming, and covering the worst areas of texture a 2nd time, we painted the ceiling, walls, trim, and doors of these rooms.

Bedroom #1 Before

Bedroom #1 After

Bedroom #2 Before

Bedroom #2 After

The master bedroom needed a lot more work.  The homeowner planned on removing the drop ceiling, so we could cover it with drywall and add some crown molding.  This revealed a small duct in the corner of the room, so we added an 8' soffit spanning the space you can see below.  We continued to brighten up the room by priming and painting all of the wood trim in the room to white.

Master Bedroom Before

Master Bedroom After

To give the living room a nice finish look, we added drywall and crown molding to the ceiling.  The walls required 2 full skim coats to smooth out the walls.  The, of course, we painted the ceiling, walls, and the trim.  We also painted the wood spindles along the stairwell.

Living Room Before

Living Room After

We had the same plan for the dining room as we did for the living room.  We added drywall and crown molding to the ceiling, and skim coated the walls.  We finished it off with a couple of coats of paint.

Dining Room Before

Dining Room After

This job took 9 days to complete with 5 people working every day.  This was one of the largest projects that we have ever completed.  The homeowner told us that his wife did not like the house and did not want to buy it.  He had a vision and convinced her that it was a good plan.  She came by one day towards the end of the project and got a little emotional.  She told us that she recognized what we did and could finally see herself living in this house.

The homeowner said, "I'm quite pleased overall with everything; the transformation is great.  I appreciate all the work your team did over the last two weeks."