Kitchen Renovation

We are painting this entire house, and the only room that we could complete at this point was the kitchen.  It was such a nice transformation that I wanted to share it early.

These folks just bought this neglected 105 year old house and are spending a lot of money renovating it.  Electricians are going to be rewiring the house and tearing up all of the walls, except the kitchen, which is relatively new.  So, we gave them a long term temporary renovation.

The previous owners painted the walls and trim the same color and had the typical oak Home Depot cabinets.  Take a look:

We repaired all of the damage and painted the cabinets, ceiling, walls, and trim.  I think it looks much brighter and pleasant now.

Tear Down This Wall (and Wallpaper)

I stripped the wallpaper and covered a plaster ceiling with drywall in this house over 18 months ago.  They called me back to strip the wallpaper off their guest bedroom walls and do some major repairs in their dining room.

If you pressed on 2 of their dining room walls, you could feel the plaster move.  It was not attached much at all.  I have no idea how the walls survived our wallpaper stripping from 18 month ago.  There were also some awful foam tiles on the ceiling. 

Here is what it looked like when we got there to start the work:

Then we tore down two walls to make them look like this:

Then we rebuild the ceiling and walls with drywall and painted them.

The guest bedroom had rather difficult wallpaper to remove.  You can't really tell from this photo...

...but you may be able to see the trouble we had in this photo:

Here are 2 pictures of the finished look:

Prepare to Rent

This is the 3rd and probably last time that I will work in this house.  The owners moved out and wanted me to finish the rehab and transition to rental house.  The house needed so much attention, and they did not do it while they lived there. 

For example, when they had their air conditioner installed, the installers left the ceiling looking like this:

So, I closed in a portion with drywall and created a hatch to enter the attic.  Then we painted the ceiling, walls, trim, and doors

 A large section of the 3rd floor hallway was cracking and peeling.  The baseboard had holes and chipping paint.

 We cleaned it all up and painted it.

The final thing we did was make everything match.  Many of the doors were painted and needed some repairs.  Others were not painted at all.

 So, since we were painting the ceilings, walls, and trim on the 3rd floor, we made all of the doors in the house match. 

We worked on this house over 18 months and 3 phases to make a true transition.