This is a view of the back room. The carport and back yard are straight ahead, visible through the window. It's a dark little room. Maybe if we ever get enough money, we'll put in a skylight or something. There's a really cool vintage switch on the wall on the left- the kind with the brass plate and the two buttons for "on" and "off." We'll probably try to salvage that.A note about the floors: It looks like the place used to have carpeting, with the exception of the kitchen, which is old, cruddy linoleum. Many of the rooms have been stripped down to the sub-flooring, with the exception of the main room and the hallway. Those have old, cruddy hardwood floors. We'll rip those floors out down the subfloor, too. The plan is to put down a few carpet remnants for our walking pleasure, and then eventually put down hardwood (linoleum tile in the kitchen, hexagonal porcelain tile in the bathrooms). Right now we're thinking about Weyerhaeuser's Lyptus engineered wood. So pretty, so durable, so sustainable.
The back room, in the meantime, has a lovely floor covering of ground-in newspaper, vinyl, and subfloor. The wood paneling throughout the main and back rooms is slated for immediate removal.
Hey- how about having Weyerhauser adopt the house? You could use it as a marketing kind of thing. Of course, J couldn't walk around in his skivvies whilst they marketing folks take photos of the wall treatment, etc., but it might be worth the sacrifice!
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Hee hee - they kind of already ARE sponsoring the house, since they're paying my salary. *grin* Besides, J isn't hindered by modesty, anyway. ^_^
ReplyDeleteJacob runs around in his underpants?! That's an Improvement, as he used to only wear a shirt.
ReplyDeleteWhen you hit the jackpot in the lottery, French doors opening to the back would add light and open up the room to the out-of-doors, enlarging it. I watched a house getting fixed up. When they were nearly out of money, they replaced a floor with plywood sheets laid out with grain in alternating directions and protected with several layers of floor varnish. Cool...
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