I know how much you guys like reno projects with pics so thought I'd share mine with you.
Copy and pasted from a forum I frequent more regularly:
Thought I'd share a few photos of the reno project we decided to take up when we purchased our house.
This was 90% weekend work and whatever days I could take off inbetween.
We got the keys at the beginning of September last year and it's been pretty much nonstop work every week since, give or take a few days we couldn't do anything due to other commitments or emergencies.
Not yet 100% complete, but is now livable. We've moved in about 2 weeks ago and still in the process of installing the kitchen and little details here and there.
Work undertaken:
Strip/demolish everything to the frame.
Relocate bathroom, open up kitchen, new WIR to main.
New walls, new ceiling, new electrical, new flooring.
A ****** lot of work to do..
The house itself is around 50 or 60 years old.
You can imagine how badly aligned the studs wouldn've been.
I don't think there was a single straight wall in this house, apart from the new walkin and builtins we made lol.
Even knowing this, we didn't bother packing them out to level the new walls, as it wouldn't be that noticeable to the untrained eye one everything was refitted and painted.
I tried to take photos during most of the process but as any of you who have done this, can get carried away with the work and forget to document it.
Pics:
Hallway:
There was a linen cupboard in the hallway which was old and made the hallway very gloomy. This was ripped out.
Old bathroom:
The plan is to relocate the bathroom.
An original 3x2 bath didn't suit the size requirements we were looking for.
Tearing this down also allowed more light to enter the hallway and make it more lively. This hallway will also eventually lead in to the future house extension.
New Bathroom:
We decided to convert one of the bedrooms to the new bathroom.
This worked out very well as the size has increased substancially and the layout of it worked out to pretty much how we envisioned.
Not much photos of the bath unfortunately.. this was outsourced to a guy I used previously, mostly to save us time.
Main Bedroom:
Nothing spectacular. New walls and ceilings, new floors. The only big change was the BIR was ripped out and replaced with a WIR.
Copy and pasted from a forum I frequent more regularly:
Thought I'd share a few photos of the reno project we decided to take up when we purchased our house.
This was 90% weekend work and whatever days I could take off inbetween.
We got the keys at the beginning of September last year and it's been pretty much nonstop work every week since, give or take a few days we couldn't do anything due to other commitments or emergencies.
Not yet 100% complete, but is now livable. We've moved in about 2 weeks ago and still in the process of installing the kitchen and little details here and there.
Work undertaken:
Strip/demolish everything to the frame.
Relocate bathroom, open up kitchen, new WIR to main.
New walls, new ceiling, new electrical, new flooring.
A ****** lot of work to do..
The house itself is around 50 or 60 years old.
You can imagine how badly aligned the studs wouldn've been.
I don't think there was a single straight wall in this house, apart from the new walkin and builtins we made lol.
Even knowing this, we didn't bother packing them out to level the new walls, as it wouldn't be that noticeable to the untrained eye one everything was refitted and painted.
I tried to take photos during most of the process but as any of you who have done this, can get carried away with the work and forget to document it.
Pics:
Hallway:
There was a linen cupboard in the hallway which was old and made the hallway very gloomy. This was ripped out.
Old bathroom:
The plan is to relocate the bathroom.
An original 3x2 bath didn't suit the size requirements we were looking for.
Tearing this down also allowed more light to enter the hallway and make it more lively. This hallway will also eventually lead in to the future house extension.
New Bathroom:
We decided to convert one of the bedrooms to the new bathroom.
This worked out very well as the size has increased substancially and the layout of it worked out to pretty much how we envisioned.
Not much photos of the bath unfortunately.. this was outsourced to a guy I used previously, mostly to save us time.
Main Bedroom:
Nothing spectacular. New walls and ceilings, new floors. The only big change was the BIR was ripped out and replaced with a WIR.
