House Update

When you put a house up for sale, you finally have to do all the deferred maintenance you have been putting off for years.  Apparently, the reason you wait so long to do this is to make sure you avoid enjoying the improvements yourself.  You would rather just wait until you are moving so someone else can enjoy all of your hard work.  Here are some of the many improvements made to the house recently.

Main level.

Finally broke down and replaced the original flooring (brown sculpted carpet) in the front room.  We did the new wood laminate flooring ourselves in 2 days. 

 

Entry and upstairs family room.  All walls and ceilings painted in entry, family room, extended family room area, and dining area. Fireplace totally redone and updated, meaning old fake rock fireplace removed and replaced with new sheetrock, marble surround on fileplace with new molding. All doors painted and stair rail and posts painted.

Kitchen

Extended family room area

 

Main floor bathroom

 

Master bedroom

Yellow bedroom, formerly Suzy's room, now grandkids room.

 

Also painted doors in all bedrooms, bathrooms, office, and hallways including all closets.

Master bath, office and hallways not shown.

Downstairs

 Basement family room, formerly kids playroom which became an all purpose storage room after they grew up and moved out.  Repair work done to sheetrock.  All accumulated artifacts and precious heirlooms (meaning junk) cleared out and cleaned out, repainted white walls and the beam and post.  Got rid of some outdated furniture, but some pieces still linger on.

Downstairs bathroom.  Painted vanity.  Added other decorative touches.

Painted doors in laundry room and the two downstairs bedrooms.  Painted walls in bedrooms and replaced light fixtures.  Laundry room, hallways and two bedrooms not shown.

Workshop.  Moved out airplane wings and car parts which had taken a large part of this space.  Windows which have been blocked for years can not be seen.   Completed repair work, waterproofing, and other finishing work that had never been done.

 

Garage

Garage floor had cracked and fallen several inches over the years.  Although this in no way affected the foundation of the house, as the garage has a separate foundation from the house and no basement space is below the garage, some people found the large cracks and unlevel surface in garage to be, shall we say . . . . unsettling.   So today we have the pleasure of hiring a group of guys to come in and break up all the concrete and take it all OUT of the garage.  They will then come back (hopefully) on Monday to install new flat and level concrete.  If you know anything about this house, you know it is  a rare occasion that anyone is hired to do any work around this house.  Hoping all turns out well.