We are slowly working our way through the downstairs of the house. This week we spent our time in the living room. Anyone who has walked through our house could tell you, the living room needs a lot of work. The floor joists were warped and the center of the room was noticeably higher than the edges. It also smelled like cat urine and had paneling with drywall mud on the walls. It was a very intimidating room with all of the work that needed to get done. We are only part way there, but it already looks like a different house.
Here is the picture from when we bought the house:
As seen in an earlier post, we pulled down the paneling, many layers of wallpaper, slat and plaster, and more wallpaper to find rough cut beadboard:
As much as we liked the beadboard walls, they did not have any insulation behind them. We ended up tearing everything down the the studs and floor joists:
While the floors were up, we insulated the crawlspace around the foundation, ran the heating ducts from our new furnace, and finished some electrical work:
We also moved our fireplace mantel. The mantel will be put back in after the white paint and sharpie marker is stripped off. Hopefully it will be a long time before we ever have to see that crawlspace again:
Just like we did in the kitchen, we added in new floor joists for support and leveled out the original ones. We laid down a new subfloor to finish out the day:
It is still a rough looking room, but after we put in new drywall everything will be like new. We were able to get a lot more done than we thought possible in just one day.
Today is the one year anniversary of buying the house. Next weekend we will be taking progress pictures for each room we have worked in. It truly is hard to believe it is the same house that we bought one year ago.
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