Finito!

Little Red is Finished 

Here's the finished product. 

I'd love to hear what you think! 

Thanks for visiting. 

I hope to bring you news of a new little house sometime very soon, but for now let's all say - 

Arrivederci Piccolo Rosso! 

Early March Progress.....

The open floors - before the rebuild began....

The original floors that were preserved under the shag carpet.

Look to the top right of the photo below - and you'll see where there originally had been a floor furnace. 

We will rip down boards to match the  2" width, then piece them in to tie in that whole area. 

Once it is stained - you'll never know it was there. 

( p.s. I say we - but I really mean Brad the flooring guy. He is a Wizard with repairing & matching old floors!) 

Once the floor joists were repaired, the new wood floor could be added in the kitchen. 

These will all be stained to match. 

This was interesting. 

Each of the bedrooms had a small closet. As with many of the homes of this era - this house had a walk through doorway between 2 of the bedrooms. 

Somewhere down the road, someone had closed that passthrough off to make a second closet for the front room. 

( See the brown sheet of plywood? That's just blocking the doorway to the other room.) 

I definitely wanted to open that back up.

I did not want to connect the bedrooms - but I did want to create a larger master closet. 

The closet will be the whole width.  There will be two doors, with the door frames where they were originally. 

The space above was so large - I just could not bring myself to waste it! 

These are going to remain open for additional storage. 

The new master bath ( the old bedroom 4)

In here we will have a shower ( tiled to the ceiling) , a double vanity, floating shelves & a sliding door. 

Originally our contractors thought that we could patch some of the old walls - but ultimately...

We have ended up with new sheetrock everywhere. 

Just as well. 

It gave us the opportunity to add a whole bunch of insulation that this house never would have had. 

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The original trim was saved and labeled - so it could all be reassembled once the walls were up. 

Dining room 

Master Bedroom 

Front Bedroom 

The painters went to town when I was not around & painted everything! 

I should have been there to direct traffic - but I wasn't. 

Many of the doors just needed a good cleaning. The rich color of the aged wood would have been a perfect contrast to the Wickham Gray walls.  

But...

White will look nice and clean. 

Nothing to do about it now. 

Thank goodness they did not paint the hardware!