November 29, 2012
10:00 a.m: drove to our first house, basked in the glory of owning first house
10:07 a.m: time to start the demo
Even though this 1961 charmer had been well maintained, it was waaayyyy out of date. So we immediately got to work. We had less than 3 weeks to do as much as we could before move-in day…. we ripped out kitchen cabinets, cleaned the bathrooms, knocked down a wall, tore down a ceiling, and chiseled up TWO layers of laminate flooring (worst.job.ever.).
The first items on my agenda: garage doors, floors, and windows.
The current garage doors were manual (I didn't even know they still had those) and one of the windows was broken. We found a great company to come out and install new doors right away…they even made them extra quiet…BEAUTIFUL!
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Next thing: floors. Positive: wood floors through out the whole house. Negative: trashed wood floors through out the whole house. Whoever decided that putting a puke-orange stain on wood floors was a good idea? There was horrible brown shag carpet taped (yes taped) to the floors and deep gashes covering most of the house. Instead of taking on this huge project ourselves - we called professional and moved in with friends (fantastic decision). Let me tell you what - refinishing hardwoods - best investment yet! Our professionals did a fabulous job and restored these oak floors to their former glory - with no orange stain.
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Who knew something as simple as windows could make such a huge difference!
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