I have moved already, not to another old house (yet), will be another couple/three years before I get motivated to take on another one. I have a stepdaughter who's in school in the burbs so I agreed with my wife to stay until her graduation and not a day longer. I will not buy one of these new suburban 'things', we're renting one.
All of the garnet shellac finished things in the pics (floors, moldings, etc) are me. The downstairs was that way already, didn't get around to it.
Short list:
- Tore drywall down covering upstairs plaster, replastered all the upstairs walls and ceilings
- Removed/stripped (replacing as necessary) the heart pine moldings, finished with garnet shellac and waterlox
- Built new upstairs windows to replace rotten originals from old growth cypress, finished with waterlox
- Built new 5 panel upstairs doors and transoms, p/o's had thrown all the old ones away but one, finished with garnet shellac and waterlox
- Removed 2 layers of upstairs carpet and refinished original heart pine floors with garnet shellac and waterlox
- Cut out and reproduced original door frames, put thresholds in between the upstairs rooms, put the door frames back, again finishing with waterlox and garnet shellac.
- Replaced all modern electrical hardware upstairs with new brass hardware
- Replaced all modern air vents upstairs with custom black ones from crafthome
- Built new cedar gates for the pool area
- Put up new cedar wooden fence around the entire property
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