The four pictures above where the pre-remodel project.
One of the 4 upstairs bedrooms was small and had a wall and a half of oak bookshelves. We kept three of the book shelves, painted them white and added crown molding. This room is for our 7 year old soon who loves to display Legos, so you can never have too many shelves. We also added beadboard and new carpet (not shown). One of the other two bookshelves holds our ski's in the garage storage room, and the other sits in the upstairs landing (first picture).
One thing I can say, I am so happy the remodel is behind me. The above picture shows where the addition is, over the existing third car garage stall. We also added a boat/RV structure to the left of garage.
This addition gave us a sitting room, huge new closet and boat and garage storage.
The project started in October, right around Halloween. The workers where even at the house on Thanksgiving as we prepared our dinner. My daughter Madeline and all time best helper, helped me make pies.
I bought the leaf shape cutter at William-Sonoma several years ago and absolutely love it for making fall pies. I use Marie Calendar frozen crusts, then cut leaves out of the top crust. we added some red and yellow food coloring to the unrolled pie crust to add a little fall color. I also like to use cookie cutters for other times of the year, i.e. hearts at Valentine's and stars for July 4th.
This picture shows the boat garage as its going up. One of the pains of remodeling is that you have to take down to put up. There are always unforeseen problems and added expenses, like our situation where half of the stucco on the side of the house had to be redone. The stone also had to be taken off and then redone. Our project was a little tricky because they removed our cracked driveway plus all of the cement inside the garage. We had hoped to avoid that, but the cement had settled and was on top of several feet of sand. Because of delays, they didn't actually poor the driveway cement until January, on the coldest few days on record. Unfortunately, I am not very happy with the finished product.
All of the pumpkins (except the white and red ones) and squash were from our garden. They lasted so long, that I finally had to throw them away for Christmas. This year I haven't had such good luck with pumpkins, I only have one and it's still green. For me, it was important to keep part of my life "normal" during the remodel. I still decorated for the holidays even though many friends advised me not to. There is so much chaos, it was nice to maintain some semblance of our usual life.
Rear view of the remodel. The second level is an extension of our bedroom, the first floor is a garage storage room. We left the stucco and stone in that room to save on the expense of demolition. I am grateful we did too, because our budget ran over by about $35,000.00. So stressful!!
Cheesy me presenting my pretty good looking turkey amid all the construction chaos.
These next pictures are the before pictures, before demolition that is. The above and below pictures show my old closet that has since become part of our master bathroom.
This is a before photo of the bathroom. This tub became a shower. We kept the same paint color, Benjamin Moore's Shenandoah Taupe.
This is a view from our bedroom into the bath/closet area. We kept the same mantel, but painted it white and replaced the marble with brick. There are openings on both sides of the fireplace into the addition, a sitting room with a double side fireplace. My master bedroom is heaven!! I feel very lucky to have it and grateful to my husband for putting up with me when he doesn't always see my vision.
Demolition of the shower begins. The boards (below) were put up to keep some of the cold at bay, since this part of construction happened the day after Thanksgiving. Since this remodel mainly took place in our bedroom, we initially took over our son's room in the basement. When the project ran much longer than we had anticipated, he got his room back and we moved into our daughter's bedroom upstairs. That was one of the difficulties of remodeling--the displacement for the kids. Thankfully this remodel did not prevent us from using the kitchen. I think kitchens are the hardest remodels to live through, only seconded by bathrooms.
That's all for now. I need to challenge my husband to a late night game of Scrabble.
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