08-16-2017, 09:53 PM
I cant remember if I posted about my home updates in here so I'll blog about it. I've been balls deep and I see the light at the end of the tunnel now... what started as "lets do some updates to the kitchen and baths and think about selling it" has snowballed. Most of the house was renovated about 10 years ago, and everything in it was the cheapest shit you could get from home depot. It looked and worked ok but it was time to go.
Week of 4th of july I was furloughed, and got rolling, working that week and the weekends since - refinished my cabinets, painted white & grey. New quartz countertop, yuge undermount sink & faucet, then a nice glass tile backsplash. I demo'd our upstairs hall bath, reframed the walls for a floating vanity & big medicine cabinet, and new paint & light fixture. Master got a smaller floating vanity, and new cabinet, light fixture and paint. Half bath on main level got new paint, stained the grout, removed the medicine cabinet & hung a mirror. Removed & patched all the chair rail in the main level. 20 other little odds and ends that I cant remember now, like new area rugs, register vents, LED light bulbs anything else that looked old and shitty. Demo'd the kitchen floor this week, which was awesome to do on a weeknight.
I paid guys to install the new tile in the kitchen & baths. I could have done it, but they will do it better than me and I'm going out of town this weekend - it'll be done when I get back. I also hired painters to come and do all the trim/casing repaint and all the little nicks and paint touch ups throughout the house, basically every wall will need a spot of paint somewhere - a crew will knock it out in a day where it would take me all weekend and then some. After pulling out the appliances and seeing that our fridge looks like it got installed by leeroy jenkins, accepting that our stove blows and our dishwasher doesnt do very well because those are all 10+ years old, I just ordered new appliances. Costco had a solid deal on buying the whole package with free delivery & haul off of the old stuff. Once everything is done the only thing left is replacing our stairwell carpet, saving that for last. I originally thought I'd spend around $7-8k but the appliances just blew that budget.
I'll post some photos when its done. Everything is coming out awesome but fuck, this is why people pay contractors for big jobs. The only thing I'd change is never paint cabinets again. In retrospect I should have just ordered new doors, already painted for around $1500, and then painted the frames and thats it. The doors I had were stained really terribly by the previous owners and I have some concerns about how well the paint will hold up long term plus it was a fuck ton of work, not worth it.
Week of 4th of july I was furloughed, and got rolling, working that week and the weekends since - refinished my cabinets, painted white & grey. New quartz countertop, yuge undermount sink & faucet, then a nice glass tile backsplash. I demo'd our upstairs hall bath, reframed the walls for a floating vanity & big medicine cabinet, and new paint & light fixture. Master got a smaller floating vanity, and new cabinet, light fixture and paint. Half bath on main level got new paint, stained the grout, removed the medicine cabinet & hung a mirror. Removed & patched all the chair rail in the main level. 20 other little odds and ends that I cant remember now, like new area rugs, register vents, LED light bulbs anything else that looked old and shitty. Demo'd the kitchen floor this week, which was awesome to do on a weeknight.
I paid guys to install the new tile in the kitchen & baths. I could have done it, but they will do it better than me and I'm going out of town this weekend - it'll be done when I get back. I also hired painters to come and do all the trim/casing repaint and all the little nicks and paint touch ups throughout the house, basically every wall will need a spot of paint somewhere - a crew will knock it out in a day where it would take me all weekend and then some. After pulling out the appliances and seeing that our fridge looks like it got installed by leeroy jenkins, accepting that our stove blows and our dishwasher doesnt do very well because those are all 10+ years old, I just ordered new appliances. Costco had a solid deal on buying the whole package with free delivery & haul off of the old stuff. Once everything is done the only thing left is replacing our stairwell carpet, saving that for last. I originally thought I'd spend around $7-8k but the appliances just blew that budget.
I'll post some photos when its done. Everything is coming out awesome but fuck, this is why people pay contractors for big jobs. The only thing I'd change is never paint cabinets again. In retrospect I should have just ordered new doors, already painted for around $1500, and then painted the frames and thats it. The doors I had were stained really terribly by the previous owners and I have some concerns about how well the paint will hold up long term plus it was a fuck ton of work, not worth it.