tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66588155963024255012024-03-05T11:23:20.059-08:00The Rosenthal Project(s)Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-50631929823701812902012-12-26T07:22:00.002-08:002012-12-26T07:22:43.771-08:00The Man Cave Final Phase<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Project #19: The Basement Phase III</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Once Phase II of the basement was completed it quickly became necessary for the Final Phase to be completed. You see our loyal patrons were enjoying all aspects of Phase I & II however with the installation of the beverage refrigerator and kegerator in Phase II it quickly became an annoyance to have to walk all the way upstairs to the main floor to use the restroom. Therefore construction of the bathroom in the basement began. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The first step was to dig up the slab-on-grade to locate the waste line and install new drains and waste lines for the sink, toilet and shower. Luckily the main waste line for the house went straight down the back wall of the bathroom so it was just a matter of finding it once it went below grade to tie into. We originally thought this process would require a jack hammer and excessive noise and dust, however I came home from work one day to find that Matt had already broken out the slab by hand. He then taped out exactly where the new waste lines needed to go in order to tie into the existing waste line below grade and continued breaking out the concrete in order to install the new plumbing lines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Matt then installed the new plumbing lines and poured back the floor. Followed by sheetrocking the storage closet under the stairs and installing the 2x stud walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Next Matt completed the 2x studs for the shower and installed insulation as well as the remainder of the plumbing within the walls. He then began installing the sheetrock. You will notice it is purple, just to go along with the theme of the house! Ha Ha not really it is the mold resistant sheetrock.</span> </div>
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<span id="goog_24333145"></span><span id="goog_24333146"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Then Matt poured the shower pan. This consisted of framing it out of 2x studs then installing the waterproofing barrier and pouring in the floor of the shower sloped to the drain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The waterproofing membrane was carried up the walls and then the cement backer board was installed in the shower. We also hung the sheetrock on the ceiling and the remaining walls after Matt completed the electrical work and the vent installation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The blog is now currently up to date as of 12/26/12 with the completion of Project # 19. It is amazing the amount of work we have accomplished in only a 2 year time span. The purple foreclosure we embarked on back in August 2010 has had quite the face lift. Stay tuned for future projects.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Once Phase I of the basement was completed we took a little break before tackling Phase II which was the bar. Matt decided to add a new skill to his resume and attempt to built the bar from scratch. This meant custom building every cabinet, shelf and even the bar top out of solid oak. From Phase I we had the walls and ceiling completed as well as the pony wall for the bar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">First Matt built the cabinets along the alcove, which was difficult based on the walls of course not being symmetrical or plumb and the angles not being exact. He then tiled the floor in phases as cabinets were installed. Once again we got a great deal on the tile flooring! Thanks again Mike! As previously mentioned everything is built out of solid oak, wood glue and no exposed nails or screws just as a professional would do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The ledge of the bar was actually from Matt's Uncle's old pizza place in Westport that Matt's Grandpa made many years ago. Matt stripped it, sanded it and stained it then cut it to fit. Once the stain was set Matt then applied a thick epoxy layer to the top of the bar. It was a two part mixture that was applied directly to the top of the bar and then leveled out into place quickly because it sets up in under 15 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">One of the bedrooms upstairs had a very expensive hand painted wall. Unfortunately it was camouflage, while the other three walls were each a different color within the camouflage. This room was quickly referred to as the camo room for obvious reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The camo wall colors didn't really go with the rest of the house so we decided to paint them. In anticipation for one day having a little one we created a nursery themed room.</span></div>
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Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-57405418568959130362012-12-17T06:00:00.000-08:002012-12-17T14:14:47.470-08:00The Man Cave Phase I<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Project #16: The Basement Phase I</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Technically this would be the second project for the basement based on Project #1 which actually took place prior to us owning the house. This project was the reinforcing of the basement walls. Refer to the post dated 10/4/12 for additional information. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Project #16 was initiated when we received the opportunity to purchase a used pool table and air hockey table. We really were not planning to finish the basement for quite a while but once this opportunity arose we took advantage of it. We knew at some point we wanted a pool table and we just weren't sure if this opportunity would occur again so we jumped on it. We hired professionals to move the pool table and install it in the basement. This was quite an art with moving the slate, stretching the felt and leveling the table so we left it up to the professionals. After a few weeks of playing pool in the unfinished basement Matt got sick of it and decided we needed to finish the basement. So Project #16 began!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Notice the original wall at the stairs leading into the basement. This quickly got demolished during a pool game because of the interference it caused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Once lifted into place we then anchored them into the slab-on-grade and to the floor </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">joists above. </span></div>
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Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-16126211562660794362012-12-10T06:00:00.000-08:002012-12-10T06:00:09.565-08:00DIY Amateurs<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Project #15: Part II of the Screened in Porch</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Project #8 consisted of us cutting and staining the slab-on-grade concrete floor of the screened in porch. Refer to previous post for more details. We quickly found that we spent a lot of time on the porch and realized the old screens needed to be replaced because they were just holding dust. They were tight woven light gage wire mat screens and contained a few holes in them which kind of defeated their purpose for keeping out the bugs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">We figured this project of replacing the screens would be a quick Saturday afternoon project. After 14 renovation projects under our belt we felt pretty confident that we were good at planning ahead and foreseeing possible unknowns in order to eliminate any surprises during projects. Up to this point in the renovations really the only surprise we had encountered was the tile flooring that was set in 2" solid mortar bed. So we felt as though we had graduated past the amateur DIY status. WRONG! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> Prior to beginning the project we did our best to examine all of the 6"x6" wood members by knocking on them to see if they were solid or if they in fact were hollow indicating they were rotted. We did not hear or feel any indications that any of these members were in fact rotted. We removed the screens and realized the 6"x6" wood posts and beams along the entire East elevation were all rotted from the inside out. This was the point our Saturday afternoon project became a multiple day project. We felt like the amateurs we watched on the DIY television shows that we laughed at, so of course we laughed at ourselves at this point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Luckily this was the non-load bearing side of the porch. The roof was s</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">upported by the house on the North wall and sloped to the South wall of the screened in porch. Therefore the East wall of the screened in porch was only supporting the wall itself and no roof load. This was a relief because then we didn't have to worry about shoring the roof while we replaced the wood beams and posts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We replaced all of the 6"x6" wood beams and posts on the East elevation of the screened in porch and then primed and painted all of the wood members. Then we decided to go with a different screen system. The original system was just wire mesh stapled to the wood beams and posts and then wood trim pieces were installed along the perimeter of the screens to conceal the staples. We felt like this made it very difficult if one of the screens were to get a hole in it to be replaced, not to mention all the extra wood trim pieces seemed unnecessary. We went with the Screen Tight porch screening system because of the easy installation and ability to easily replace screens in the future if they were to be damaged. It consisted of perimeter tracks that we screwed into the wood beams and posts then we rolled the vinyl screens into the splines of the tracks and then we snapped on the cover pieces over the tracks. </span><br />
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<b>STEP 1: Attach base to
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Cut base to fit over wood framing. Base strips are butted together
and do not require any mitering or notching. Attach the base strip to wood
framing using 1" wood or sheet rock screws. Make sure to put a screw in each
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<b>STEP 2: Roll screen into
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Roll screen into base strip with appropriate spline and screening
tool. For fiberglass screen use .175" diameter spline. For aluminum screen use
.160" diameter spline. Start by rolling the screen into the top horizontal piece
of base. After the top is rolled in, then roll the two sides and then the bottom
horizontal piece of base. When screening the bottom, create screen tension by
pulling down on the screen slightly. This will insure a "tight screen". A
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<b>STEP 3: Snap cap onto
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The cap snaps onto the base strip and serves as the trim piece.
Force from a mallet, hand or small block of wood will snap the cap into place.
When attaching the 3.5" cap, the inside leg of the cap should be fitted under
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In addition to replacing all of the screens and the rotted wood we also installed a new sliding door on the South elevation and a new hinged door on the East elevation. These were both made of fiberglass frames so we wouldn't have to worry about them rotting over time like the original wood ones had done.</span> </div>
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Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-35876313282034058552012-12-03T06:00:00.000-08:002012-12-03T06:00:11.206-08:00Finished with the Bandages<u><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Project #14: The Fence</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Throughout the construction of all of the indoor projects we still had one large outdoor project that we were avoiding. This was the fence. Daily Matt would have to add steel angles, screws, straps etc. to different parts of the fence to attempt to hold it together until we had time to build a new one. Every time the wind would blow it seemed another section of the fence would need repair. In addition to this our neighbors while complimenting all of our hard work would all "subtly" ask when we thought we would get to the fence. In addition to the bandages Matt also power washed and stained the fence in an attempt to spruce it up a bit to please the neighbors until we could get to actually replacing it. This helped the appearance significantly however the structural issues still existed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The main reason for the delay in the fence project was based on the sheer magnitude of the project. We had approxiamtely 550 linear feet of fence to replace. We also hadn't determined if we could save any of the posts and the footings they were in or if we would have to replace all of the posts and footings. If you have ever built a fence the footings and posts are the most time consuming portion of the project. It requires digging holes that are a minimum 36" deep in the ground for frost, then filling them with concrete and setting a leveled post in them. In addition to this we would have to remove the existing posts and footings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Once the master bathroom was completed Matt decided to take on a smaller bathroom project which consisted of updating the guest bedroom and bathroom. This bathroom surprisingly did not contain any purple however it did contain turquoise. The bathroom had turquoise tile on the vanity and white floor tile with turquoise grout. I have been to Lowe's and Home Depot many times and I have yet to ever see turquoise grout probably for a reason. This had to be hand mixed or special ordered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The walls of both the bedroom and bathroom were painted with a periwinkle blue and the bathroom vanity contained seahorse and crab themed fixtures. The bedroom also had a nice globe light fixture in the corner of the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Unfortunately there are no construction pictures for this project based on the fact that Matt completed it so quickly. In the time it took for me to drive to Manhattan, KS for a K-State football game he had finished tiling the entire bathroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We were able to simply paint the existing vanity and replace the fixtures. We also framed out the existing mirror and were able to keep the existing sink. For the vanity we used travertine tiles and matching porcelain tiles in a brick pattern for the floor. We painted the walls as well.</span> </div>
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Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-10046135676654707172012-11-19T06:00:00.000-08:002012-11-19T10:45:21.283-08:00The Last of the Purple!<u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Project #12: The Master Bathroom</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After moving in and having to utilize the master bathroom daily we quickly decided this would be our next renovation to tackle. In going along with the original decor of the master bedroom this room was of course purple as well. In addition to the purple walls the bathroom also had a purple toilet, bathtub, (2) octagon sinks and shower insert. With the combination of the excessive amount of white tile and gold fixtures the bathroom needed serious updating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Demolition began by removing the vanity, bathtub, shower insert and toilet. The enormous mirror was a bit of a challenge because we wanted to avoid it breaking into a million pieces yet we knew if we got it off of the wall in one piece we would not be able to carry it downstairs to the dumpster in the driveway and would risk it breaking while we attempted to carry it. Oh and there is that whole superstition about 7 years bad luck if you break a mirror. We tapped it all up and Matt attempted to pry it off of the wall, this was unsuccessful because it was thoroughly glued to the sheetrock. So what did Matt do next? He threw a baseball at it to get it to start cracking while still being held together with the tape and glued to the wall. This was also unsuccessful, the baseball hit the mirror and bounced right off, without a single crack. So we were forced to hammer the mirror on the wall to get it to crack into pieces and then pry them off of the sheetrock. We were able to break it into large pieces that then we could carry to the dumpster. There was no way to avoid the bad luck superstition I am afraid. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">For those of you keeping track at home it is now December 4, 2010 and we have owned the house for 3 months. This was a busy 14 weeks of renovations occurring on the weekends and after work each day. Many long days and late nights but it was worth it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> After much thought and discussion we finally decided the renovations had reached a point that we were comfortable moving into the house. Thanks to all of our friends and family who helped us move!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">While Matt was busy installing flooring on the main level I focused on eliminating another room of purple paint. That's right there was yet another room that was painted purple and don't worry it won't be the last. This room was the master bedroom, luckily it was just the walls that were painted with a lavender color. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Along with painting the walls I also replaced all of the electrical outlets, light switches and cover plates with white ones instead of the old 1980s yellow/off white ones. Only a few shocks of electricity here and there.</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I should note that I did this throughout the entire house. Matt replaced all of the gold door knobs and hinges throughout the entire house with new brushed nickle ones as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We were very fortunate that the house had a fairly new roof on it however the exterior paint needed a little sprucing up. We felt like we should repair the most critical wood rot locations of the siding and window trim. We did not address them all but made an executive decision to put off that project for when we felt like we wanted to replace all of the windows. We really just wanted to get a fresh thick coat of paint on the entire exterior of the house prior to winter arriving and us moving in. Yes that is correct we still have not moved into the house at this point in the renovation process. We have owned the house for 9 weeks and it is the first of November 2010.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Lucky for us we happen to have a house painter in the family! My Uncle Terry does house painting in the summer since he is a high school teacher so we called on him to lend his expertise and equipment. So Matt repaired the critical wood rot locations around the house and we got to painting. Thanks to my Uncle Terry, Aunt Mary and my Dad we were able to get the entire exterior of the house painted including the trim in one weekend! Thanks to all of our manual labor helpers including my cousin Will who stopped by for a few hours to lend a hand, we really appreciated it!</span></div>
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Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-43951618003976533732012-10-25T06:00:00.000-07:002012-10-25T06:00:01.556-07:00Painting, Painting & More Painting<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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<u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Project #9: Painting of the Laundry Room, Hallways, & Bathroom</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As previously mentioned the original owners of our house had a thing for the color purple. We had repainted the dining room and kitchen to eliminate the purple but there were still more rooms that had other shades of purple in them. The laundry room had plum purple walls while the hallway had lavender sponge painted purple walls, the main floor bathroom had a combination of different shades of purple sponge painted walls and the entry hallway had white with purple swirl wallpaper</span>. <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Don't worry this is still not the end of the purple madness, stay tuned for future posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Oh and I have failed to mention the gorgeous purple, pink and teal stained glass windows as shown above on the side windows of the front door and below at the stair landing.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I bet you can't guess what color the front door was? Purple of course!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The sta</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ined glass windows ended up being a pretty easy renovation. They in fact were just single panes of leaded glass inserts behind the single pane windows. So Matt simply pried them out and we cleaned up the windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The main floor bathroom, we kept the original tile flooring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is hard to see but we painted the front door black.</span></div>
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Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-67261649161668658312012-10-22T06:01:00.000-07:002012-10-22T06:01:00.098-07:00Bella's Room<u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Project #8: Part 1 of the Screened in Porch</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One of the features of the house that we feel in love with was the large screened in porch off of the kitchen. Pretty standard construction with a concrete slab-on-grade floor, two walls shared with the exterior of the house and two walls of screens. The roof slopes away from the house and contains two large skylights for additional natural light into the space. This is also one of Bella's favorite rooms of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My parents had recently added a stained concrete patio to their house so they offered to stain the concrete floor of the screened in porch. We cut the concrete slab to give the appearance of tile and then my parents stained the concrete. </span><br />
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Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-14052203236434319312012-10-19T06:00:00.000-07:002012-10-19T06:00:15.749-07:00Bye Bye Black & White Checker Tile<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>Project #7: Kitchen Fireplace</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">After a few large projects it was always nice to just squeeze in a little one here and there that could be completed in a few hours. That was the case with the fireplace in the kitchen. The art deco black and white checkered tile surrounded the fireplace and with all the upgrades to the kitchen it also needed to be updated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once all of the cabinets were removed Matt patched all of the sheetrock and we painted over the existing purple sponge painted walls. Matt also added a new knee wall between the dining area and the kitchen which would form the breakfast counter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">You will notice we changed the layout of the kitchen a bit. We squared off the island and removed the stove top from it. We also swapped the location of the stove and the refrigerator. We went with all gas appliances which required us to run a larger gas line into the house because the original one was undersized to begin with. We called in a professional to do this portion of the project. No need to blow up the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now that the cabinets were installed Matt installed the back splash. We removed the 1980's track lighting above the island, replaced the lighting fixture in the dinning area and installed lighting above and below the cabinets. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We went with concrete counter tops which were poured off site and then brought to our house and installed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We quickly found that the kitchen, dining area and sitting area were not going to be as easy to remove the tile flooring. Apparently in the late 1980s they did not install tile flooring the same way we do today with a thin layer mortar bed to set the tiles in followed by grouting between the tiles to secure them. Instead they would recess the sub floor (floor joists and plywood sheathing) 2" in order to lay a 2" solid mortar bed reinforced with heavy gage wire mesh. Then the tile was set in this mortar bed and grouted. We attempted to break and pry the tiles with a number of tools including crow bars, hammers etc and nothing seemed to work. We could get small pieces up of tile but were making no progress on the mortar or wire mesh. Then Matt got the idea to use his circular saw with a diamond blade on it to cut the floor up into 2'-0" x 2'-0" or smaller pieces. This not only cut through the tile but also the 2" mortar bed and even the wire mesh. This was really the largest size pieces we could cut because of the shear weight of the flooring. Concrete weighs 150 lbs per cubic foot, so 150pcf x 2" (1 foot/12 inches) thick x 2'-0" x 2'-0" = 100lbs. Removing the existing flooring was not only a workout but you also had to be careful because once the wire mesh was cut it became incredibly sharp. However we kept with it and filled our second 40 yard dumpster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now that demolition was completed on the existing flooring we first had to build up the 2" recessed kitchen, dining area and sitting area to be flush with the sub floor in the living room and dining room. This was done by installing (2) layers of 1" plywood. Once this was completed Matt then began installing the 3/4" thick solid walnut hardwood flooring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By shear determination Matt installed about 1,500 square feet of flooring in under 4 days!!! At this point I should point out that throughout all of our renovations we only worked weekends and after work during the week. No vacation or sick days were used for renovations.</span> </div>
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Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-87174566791953325082012-10-10T06:00:00.000-07:002012-10-10T08:44:17.271-07:00Let the demolition begin!<u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Project #4: Removing Walls</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This project is the first of many pertaining to the kitchen. We felt that the kitchen had a few too many walls in it. There was the kitchen, eat-in dining room and sitting room all broken up with walls. We wanted to have an open feel to the space and combine all of these rooms into one large room, so we did! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">View from the kitchen toward the sitting room and the dinning area is to the right. The two walls on the right are the ones we will remove.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In order to open up the kitchen it required us to demo two walls separating these three rooms. One wall between the dining area and sitting area was easy because it was a non-load bearing wall, however the wall between the kitchen and the dining area was a load bearing wall supporting the 2nd floor and roof of the house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As the second week of home ownership came along our next project was the dining room. Although I am a proud K-State alum there is a point at which you have to draw the line at the amount of purple in one room. I am not sure at what point this line should have been drawn in the decorating of the dining room but it could have been drawn at any one of these items; the carpet, the wall paper, the curtains or oh yes even the ceiling, floor and window trim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is amazing that Matt, the KU alum would even purchase a house with this much purple...oh that's right this is not the only purple room in the house, more to come in future project posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These pictures really illustrate the magnitude of the purple trim around the windows, the gorgeous gold light fixture, the purple crown molding around the ceiling and the purple floor and door trim.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Once we removed the wall paper and ripped out the carpet we primed the walls and painted the trim. This revealed yet another item in the room that was painted purple...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once we finally closed on the house the first item needing attention was the grading and landscaping. So the first of many dumpsters arrived in the driveway and the overhaul began. Both my parents and Matt's parents volunteered to help, little did they know the extents of manual labor required. We sure did appreciate and need the help though! </span></div>
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<br />Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-24651862557382892892012-10-04T06:00:00.000-07:002012-11-28T06:48:46.984-08:00What have we gotten ourselves into?<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The first project actually took place prior to us closing on the house. Most people would run at the sight of our basement walls based on the amount of cracks and water penetration, but not us! Being a structural engineer I determined the basement was repairable and the cause for the problem was obvious...poor grading around the house. You see the house had been vacant for 1 1/2 years and therefore much neglect had taken place. The cause for the structural problem was solvable and we proceeded with the repairs thanks to a colleague of mine I do commercial work with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span><br />Erin Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18025943533719210244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6658815596302425501.post-86942722366247466582012-10-03T09:06:00.000-07:002012-10-03T09:06:21.021-07:00August 27, 2010<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This blog is long overdue therefore I will need to back track a bit to get everything up to speed. Let's start from the beginning...We purchased a foreclosure August 2010 after four months of paper work, credit checks, inspections, etc. It was a painful process as anyone can attest to who has been involved with the foreclosure process. Luckily we finally closed on August 27, 2010!!! Our families and friends thought we were crazy based on the amount of work ahead of us, but we were ready for the challenge. Let the projects begin! </span><br />
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