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carbonelWhen I bought this house, I loved the bones of the living room, but I hated the actual look of it. Brown carpeting, greyish brown cedar walls, and no lighting to speak of.
The carpet is gone and the wood floor is in process. Here's what it looks like so far, though the sun is too bright to get much of a picture with my phone camera:
I dealt with the walls back in 2007 by having them painted over, but the wood is still uneven and less than ideal.
My eventual plan was to remove the cedar plank walls, and put in proper dry wall and mud where they used to be. I didn't have a time frame for this, just "eventually." While Rick the floor guy and I were discussing baseboard options, I mentioned the eventual plan, and he asked if I was aware that he did this sort of work, too.
I wasn't. But I know that if I'm going to do it, now is the right time, while all the furniture is out and before the floor is finished. His quote was $1700, though I'm sure it'll come to $2000 or more by the time everything is done.
I guess I'm really just trying to talk myself into doing it. It'll be another week of having the living room unavailable, but I'll be much happier with the place when it's done.
At least, I think so.
Any advice, potential gotchas, or voices of experience would be greatly welcomed, since I have to make a decision on this by the end of the day.
The carpet is gone and the wood floor is in process. Here's what it looks like so far, though the sun is too bright to get much of a picture with my phone camera:
I dealt with the walls back in 2007 by having them painted over, but the wood is still uneven and less than ideal.
My eventual plan was to remove the cedar plank walls, and put in proper dry wall and mud where they used to be. I didn't have a time frame for this, just "eventually." While Rick the floor guy and I were discussing baseboard options, I mentioned the eventual plan, and he asked if I was aware that he did this sort of work, too.
I wasn't. But I know that if I'm going to do it, now is the right time, while all the furniture is out and before the floor is finished. His quote was $1700, though I'm sure it'll come to $2000 or more by the time everything is done.
I guess I'm really just trying to talk myself into doing it. It'll be another week of having the living room unavailable, but I'll be much happier with the place when it's done.
At least, I think so.
Any advice, potential gotchas, or voices of experience would be greatly welcomed, since I have to make a decision on this by the end of the day.
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Date: 2009-01-27 09:10 pm (UTC)Anyway, the living room was added on by the previous owner, and he must have been a bit electricity-crazy. There are outlets every four feet or so. There are two sets of outlets over the large windows. What this room does not have is a shortage of outlets.
As for the other stuff -- the cable TV feed (DirecTV, but it's cable once it gets into the house) emerges from holes in the floor; wall lighting is a possibility I hadn't thought of and shall; and I think wireless is sufficient for network access.
Lighting is a definite problem, though. What's currently there is totally insufficient, and I haven't figured out a way to get enough light ("enough" being defined as enough to knit and spin and cross-stitch by) into the place. It has a vaulted ceiling with cross-beams (fake wooden beams, but covering structural metal beams, I believe), and the only thing I can come up with is track lighting on the beams, which sounds rather tacky-looking. I think I'm going to need to find some sort of lighting expert to advise me. People keep suggesting a chandelier, but I think that would look stupid with the rest of the way the place looks.