So is this a the right board for posting pics of your house that we all might find interesting?

Has anybody renovated or made some significant improvements that are pretty cool?......same

for new construction or condos. I am getting close to finishing a total gut of my kitchen,

great room, living room, and yes even demolished the fireplace, gutted the old floors also.

 

Should have some pics real soon. Feel free to share whatever you might have.

I exposed the brick on the chimney in my kitchen...(Picture was right after the granite was installed, so no backsplash yet or trim on the cabinets)

 

 

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I exposed the brick on the chimney in my kitchen...(Picture was right after the granite was installed, so no backsplash yet or trim on the cabinets)

 

 

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Love the cabinets.  Question (Oh God, I sound like ClevelandOhio or CLEJoe), why did you choose that fridge instead of an intergrated model?

That is a very homey and user friendly looking kitchen.

 

Hmm maybe I should expose the fireplace in my living room. Then again, with my luck it probably has 12 layers of lead paint over it!

v^The fridge came first, five years ago, so did the dishwasher. The matching stove and micro are in storage awaiting a trip over to my double. The wall oven was a craigslist find that I have $300 in, w/getting it fixed and the cooktop was a ebay discontinued model.

 

The fridge is sticking out in that pic because the old gasline was still there and would allow it slide back all the way. 

 

Surf, I was actually surprised that only the sides of fireplace where is juts out into the room were brick and the front wall over the mantle was actually plaster lathe. I found that out when I went to mount my TV and was all prepared with a masonary drill bits and lead inserts, turned out all that I needed was a stud finder and wood screws. It makes sense since the rest of the chimney is 2 ft wide and not 6 ft.

 

Oh and at least 12 layers of lead paint, probably with wallpaper too...

v^The fridge came first, five years ago, so did the dishwasher. The matching stove and micro are in storage awaiting a trip over to my double. The wall oven was a craigslist find that I have $300 in, w/getting it fixed and the cooktop was a ebay discontinued model.

 

The fridge is sticking out in that pic because the old gasline was still there and would allow it slide back all the way. 

 

Surf, I was actually surprised that only the sides of fireplace where is juts out into the room were brick and the front wall over the mantle was actually plaster lathe. I found that out when I went to mount my TV and was all prepared with a masonary drill bits and lead inserts, turned out all that I needed was a stud finder and wood screws. It makes sense since the rest of the chimney is 2 ft wide and not 6 ft.

 

Oh and at least 12 layers of lead paint, probably with wallpaper too...

 

Oh ok. so you had the appliances first.  If that entire back wall would be intergrated in the dark wood that would amazing.

 

I love the counters as well!

No one can expect to post anything in this thread without MTS finding something to nitpick.

 

When are you going on your next UO sabbatical?

No one can expect to post anything in this thread without MTS finding something to nitpick.

 

When are you going on your next UO sabbatical?

 

Nitpick this!  Last summer my dad and I replaced my fireplace (or should I say my dad did and I was there).  We got rid of the faux brick and put in a real mantle with a granite facade.

 

 

 

No one can expect to post anything in this thread without MTS finding something to nitpick.

 

When are you going on your next UO sabbatical?

 

^^that's really nice.

 

I haven't done much to my home, other than painting. We have plans, but haven't managed to come up with the cash to do the projects yet. I'd love to take down some ceiling tiles we have in our dining room and our office to check out the plaster that's above and see why they hung a new one.

 

The biggest projects would involve knocking down the enclosed porch and replacing the picture window that was replaced with french doors (leading to the front porch). We'd love to turn our home back into the 1920 craftsman that it was.

^^that's really nice.

 

I haven't done much to my home, other than painting. We have plans, but haven't managed to come up with the cash to do the projects yet. I'd love to take down some ceiling tiles we have in our dining room and our office to check out the plaster that's above and see why they hung a new one.

 

The biggest projects would involve knocking down the enclosed porch and replacing the picture window that was replaced with french doors (leading to the front porch). We'd love to turn our home back into the 1920 craftsman that it was.

 

That sound very nice.

^^that's really nice.

 

I haven't done much to my home, other than painting. We have plans, but haven't managed to come up with the cash to do the projects yet. I'd love to take down some ceiling tiles we have in our dining room and our office to check out the plaster that's above and see why they hung a new one.

 

The biggest projects would involve knocking down the enclosed porch and replacing the picture window that was replaced with french doors (leading to the front porch). We'd love to turn our home back into the 1920 craftsman that it was.

 

That sound very nice.

 

It'd be nicer if we had a patron.

Pretty much gutted the flooring, kitchen, fireplace, etc.

Pretty much gutted the flooring, kitchen, fireplace, etc.

 

You floors are beautiful.  Loving the island slab, what is your backsplash?  The fireplace looks nice, but I think the picture quality is poor so I cant tell the true colors.  What is the stone?

 

Very nice job overall!

Thanks twosense. My wife picked out everything, floors, counters, fireplace, and I have to say the backsplash looks like a

million bucks. Brick Tech? installed the new fireplace and the guy told me that my wife selected the most expensive stuff

they install. I don't know what it is but will find out. Even the pendant lights look great.  She has better interior design eye than

I do.

 

The backsplash is a darker gray tile that is real smooth, but not shiny at all.

Looks great Kyle. Love the granite. We were looking at some that had a nice large pattern in it but decided that it would be wasted because we weren't going to have any large slabs.