It took us a few days to get the flooring installed. The flooring itself snaps together fairly easily, but we wanted a predictable pattern for the boards to give it symmetry and that requires a lot of measuring and cutting once we got to the kitchen. We started with the flooring in the front room to give us a nice, straight line into the kitchen area.
Then it was time to fill out the kitchen.
This is an old house. The original cabin was a homestead from the early 1900s (1905-ish?) and that was in the kitchen area. Supposedly the oven area still has brick or stones inside the walls from the original fireplace for cooking. Then the house was added to in the early 40's with a Sears and Roebuck house kit that came on a train and then put together. There was an addition to the front room in the 80's, and everything past the kitchen into the family room was added in the 90's. That said, I don't think there is a single wall in this place that is square. Not one. Not to mention there are crazy little pieces of wall that jut in or out, rather than trying to give the walls an even look, even if it meant the walls were a little thicker in areas. I know that doesn't exactly make sense, but believe me, it's a pain to cut planks and then recut them at angles with cut outs to get them to fit. This house is a little bizarre if examined closely.
This process took most of two days and then an evening or two to complete.
Here's Ryan trying to make a specialized piece to fit.
I got to use power tools too. :)
It was a glorious day when we got our dishwasher installed. It ran a full cycle with construction paper under it before we declared it ready. No leaks! Hooray!
Once the floor was installed, we could move the table and fridge back to where they belong.
And the doors are still off the coat closet.
We have the trim pieces, but we also bought more planks to do the area behind the couch and under the chandelier. So we are just waiting for time and energy to do that, and THEN we can put in the trim pieces and finally feel finished.
This is an old house. The original cabin was a homestead from the early 1900s (1905-ish?) and that was in the kitchen area. Supposedly the oven area still has brick or stones inside the walls from the original fireplace for cooking. Then the house was added to in the early 40's with a Sears and Roebuck house kit that came on a train and then put together. There was an addition to the front room in the 80's, and everything past the kitchen into the family room was added in the 90's. That said, I don't think there is a single wall in this place that is square. Not one. Not to mention there are crazy little pieces of wall that jut in or out, rather than trying to give the walls an even look, even if it meant the walls were a little thicker in areas. I know that doesn't exactly make sense, but believe me, it's a pain to cut planks and then recut them at angles with cut outs to get them to fit. This house is a little bizarre if examined closely.
Once that was all done, we figured we needed to peel back the carpet a bit to widen the hard floor around the front door, just because the carpet really gets beat up from all the foot traffic. As it so happened, I was the "experienced" one on the carpet installation, never mind that the last time I helped my dad put in carpet I was... 14? 15? But we attacked it, pulling up the one side of the carpet and pulling the tack strip out gently so we could reuse it, and cutting back the carpet. I think it came out rather nicely.
However, we still look like we are a construction zone.
1 comment:
Wow, it looks so good! I love the xolor you chose. It's classy and classic. I'm also super impressed with your do-it-yourself skills. If we ever buy a house again, I hope I can channel some of your homeowner's courage! Also, what a neat house with an interesting history. I love houses with character.
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