I've covered virtually every detail of this renovation in my previous posts, so now it's time for the big payoff: a boatload of before and after photos. Let's start with the exterior – we've come a long way since 2015. Such a sad window. Of course, the house hasn't looked sad for the past few [...]
We're in the home stretch! This post is all about the finishing details I tackled myself. I chose to do this part to save a bit of money and because I wanted to be hands-on for at least some aspects of the space. Note: some of the DIY work happened before the painting crew arrived, [...]
After all the work of Weeks 1, 2, and 3, you might think our sunroom was as good as done. Cool your jets, because this was our view on Saturday morning. Our new hardwood floor material had been delivered several days earlier and was acclimating in our living room. We used unfinished solid 2 1/4" [...]
We've arrived at Week 3, pals. This week was stressful. Our entire house was a construction zone, and there were two curveballs thrown at our west wall of windows that set us back a bit schedule-wise. The first setback was that a special Marvin part needed to connect the brick moulding that went around our [...]
I took time off from work for Week 2 because I knew I’d be too distracted to focus on my job when there was so much excitement happening around me. There was also DIY work for me to do to help push things forward – for example, I demoed the dining room window trim in [...]
Project Palermo 