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New stuff we have finished, or let's be honest...are working on still. The hallway has been painted, up to the point where it will now end. We have changed the layout of the house, so the door to the master will be about a foot into one leg of the hall, so that portion os much shorter, and what you are looking at here in the before/after shots is the pink walls and yellow ceiling of the previous owners all the way down the hall to the existing door of the master. A side note: I described the pink color on the walls as "pepto-bismo had sex with a dirty ashtray" to my cousin recently. It's a really disgusting color, and it has a 30 year glaze of nicotine. Which also made the ceiling color, whatever that originally was, disgusting as well. I TSP'd the walls and ceiling and then used oil-based primer, and then painted. In the after shot you see the ceiling painted white up to the point where the new door to the master will be moved to, and the walls are Dunn Edwards Terracotta Sand, same color we used in the back house. And, check out how the sand color we are using on the walls is similar to what used to be a white ceiling from the previous owners, the part I didn't bother to paint because I need to retexture it when it transitions into the bedroom. Wow, that's a lot of cigarette smoking in a hallway. What, was there a line like at a club to get in the door of the bathroom or something?

We have also been tearing up the kitchen. The walls are down to the studs, the floors are down to the original sub-floor (more on that in the next blog) and the bar cut out is started.

And we have cleaned up the floors a bit as we work, just so they don't get any worse. You can see that once they are refinished, they are going to look amazing. Original to the house, we are very lucky to have these floors, or I should change that to say that we will feel lucky when they are refinished. We have finally come to the agreement that we are hiring out that work rather than tackling it ourselves. Reality has set in.

We also took out the old floor furnace and Warren built the sub floor so that our wood floors can be repaired and replaced over that section.

Me, doing what I do best. Painting...not whatever you were thinking. The door had been a heavily stained and lacquered wood, that had to go. I do like the cut glass in the top though, not that I'd have ordered a door like that on my own, but since it's there, it's grown on me.