The Front Yard:
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DONE!
- Remove plants from center of the yard
- Plant trees
- Paint front door
- Plant shrubs around perimeter of yard
To Do:
- Fix sprinkler system
- Make a pathway to the door
- Remove weird tree-bush by the garage
- Paint the trim and bricks (anything but baby blue and salmon)
- New outdoor light fixtures
- Fix doorbell
- Update house number
- Remove security door
- Possibly remove
- Plant flowers under the windows
- Grind concrete on doorstep
The Backyard:
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| Notice the heaping pile of crap on the concrete slab... THAT was all buried in the backyard. Thank goodness we found no bodies. |
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| This is after we had been slowly getting rid of it. Most of it was gone at this point. But still. |
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DONE!
- Wooden patio extension removed (done prior to moving in)
- Install new fence (done prior to moving in)
- Remove ELEVEN tree stumps (literally)
- Remove THREE non-working sprinkler systems
- Remove massive amounts of concrete. From under the ground. As in it was burried.
- Remove black plastic buried 8-12 inches under the soil throughout the entire backyard.
- Remove electrical outlet posts from the middle of the yard
- Remove copious amounts of garbage, tile (what did I tell you? The woman LOVED her some tile!!), and toys buried in the soil.
- Plant grass seed
- Plant vines along the perimeter of the fence
- Relocate the bougainvillea plant from a random place to a purposeful place
- Haul off concrete/ PVC pipe/ rubbish to the dump
To Do:
- New outdoor lighting
- Install sprinkler system
- Reseed the yard
- Build raised garden area in the back with a brick border
- Build a toolshed on concrete slab
- Paint the fence
- Install decorative border around vines
- Paint patio cover
- Pressure wash patio
- Figure out what to do with awkward side yard
- Plant flower garden under the window
The Living Room:
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| Polly and Vader were exhausted from watching us work. |
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DONE!
- Remove nasty tile
- Sand down wood floors
- Varnish the floors
- Install baseboards
- Paint the ceiling, walls, trim, and inside of the front door
To Do:
- Re-sand, stain, and re-varnish the wood floors
- New light fixture
- Possibly spruce up fireplace and/or mantle (potentially add built-in bookshelves on either side?)
The Hallway:
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DONE!
- Remove nasty tile
- Sand down wood floors
- Varnish the floors
- Install baseboards
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Paint closet
- Paint doors
- New hardware on doors
To Do:
- Re-sand, stain, and re-varnish the wood floors
- New light fixtures
- Remove old smoke detector (we have a surplus of smoke detectors in our house...)
- Add molding to the bedroom/bathroom doors
- New hardware for closet
The Guest Room:
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| New door hardware |
DONE!
- Remove nasty linoleum
- Sand down wood floors
- Varnish the floors
- Paint closet door
- New hardware on door
- Window treatments
To Do:
- Re-sand, stain, and re-varnish the wood floors
- PAINT (get the last of that awful peach out of here!)
- Spruce up closet door
- New light fixture
- Various decor (hang artwork, paint desk and cabinet, new headboards, still need comforter for one of the beds, etc.)
The Front Bathroom:
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DONE!
- Remove nasty tile
- Install new flooring
To Do:
- New light fixture
- Tile the floors (the floor needs to be redone)
- New mirror/frame the mirror
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Paint vanity
- New water fixtures
- Paint grout in the shower
Master Bedroom:
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| The Anthropologie knobs that inspired the color scheme |
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| Curtains |
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| Hand-me-down headboard spray painted aqua blue |
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| Horrendous closet doors! Boo! |
DONE!
- Grind and stain concrete
- Seal and wax concrete
- New light fixture
- Paint bedroom door and install new hardware
- Window treatments
To Do:
- Polyurethane concrete
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Install new closet doors
Master Bathroom:
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DONE!
- Remove nasty tile
- Install linoleum
- Install baseboards
- Paint vanity
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Updated curtain rod and accessories
To Do:
- New light fixture
- New mirror
- New water fixtures
- Add corner shelves
- Install new exhaust fan
- Clean up tile in shower and on counter
- Paint grout
The Kitchen and Dining Room:
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| Removing tile |
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| I love this picture so much because you can see the disgust and disappointment on David's face as he peeled off the 3rd layer of flooring in the kitchen only to find.... a fourth layer of flooring. |
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| Get that tile coutertop out of here!! |
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| And the wall, while you're at it! |
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| Clock wall in the dining room |
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| Close up of the new floor in the kitchen |
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| We added a bookshelf in the kitchen to create a snack bar |
DONE!
- Remove FOUR LAYERS of flooring
- Remove archway
- Install linoleum
- Install baseboards
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
- Add more cabinetry
- Paint cabinets
- Remove old countertop (all 9 square feet of it)
- Build and install new countertops
- Paint door
- Update door and cabinet hardware
- Paint pantry doors
- Grind down and stain concrete (in dining room)
- Seal concrete
- Install transition between wood and concrete
To Do:
- New light fixtures/ install a light fixture in the dining room
- Install a sink transition
- New faucet
- Ceiling tiles?
- Re-do countertop to adjust the size of the bar area
- Fill-in pock marks in concrete and touch up the stain
- Polyurethane concrete floors
The Family Room:
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| During: We ripped up the carpet |
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| Tearing down the wood panels.... notice all the black glue marks. How lovely! |
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| Recruiting Mom and Dad Heywood to replace pieces of drywall |
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| And my mother-in-law, who is amazing at everything she does, is also amazing at texturing walls by hand. That crap is tricky! I can still tell which areas she plastered versus the ones I did... haha. |
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| Currently (Sorry for the terrible lighting) |
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| A) This piano is gorgeous (Craigslist for $100!!), but still needs to be tuned and cleaned up. B) Can you just take a moment to appreciate the fact that this is the third DIFFERENT guitar pictured throughout the house? You might be a Heywood if... you have a guitar in every room of your house. |
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| Yes, Vader has two beds. He and Polly fight over them. |
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| These bad boys still need some work... |
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| It's very hard to tell from the picture, but this is the stained concrete. It is light blue with a darker blue marbled in it... You'll just have to come see it in person to truly appreciate it. :) |
DONE!
- Remove carpet
- Take down wood panels
- Scrape down glue marks
- Plaster over drywall
- Grind and stain the concrete
- Seal and wax concrete
- Install baseboards
- Frame sliding glass door
- Paint the ceiling, walls, and trim
-Window treatments
To Do:
- New light fixture
- Polyurethane concrete
- Frost the glass on the sliding glass door
- Update outlets and outlet covers
- Fix gaps between outlets and walls (and some of the outlets protrude out of the wall)
Hallway and Laundry Closet:
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DONE!
- Paint hallway ceiling, walls, and trim
- Paint closet doors
- Grind and stain concrete
- Seal and wax concrete
To Do:
- New light fixtures
- Adjust shelving/ cabinetry in laundry area
- Paint the laundry closet
- Hang mirror or other art
- Fill pock marks, touch up stain, and polyurethane floors
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