1930's Farmhouse Rebuild - phase ll

[jeepinmatt]

Spoiler Alert: From my phone it looks like we ran the same style base too, 7 1/4" with a base cap?

I've been meaning to dig up your house thread and look at it again....

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

[ramjo]

With the windows trimmed out, It was now time to start patching floor. I had about 8 old 8x8 vent locations that had to be patched back in and around 450 sq ft to replace what I had to tear out.

Pulling nails and getting ready to start nailing back down.

Bathroom floor and small vent patched up in hall

Ended up needing around 250 sq ft to finish the first floor after I had used up all my useful supply.

So I called up a friend who has a custom molding shop about a half mile from the house and he hooked me up. Pretty cool to be able to make your own hardwood floors...for half the cost.

Heat gun + 1 1/2" putty knife + 8 hours does not equal fun. Glad dad stuck around to help thAt day...

 

[powerstrokin04]

Man this thread is an inspiration. I wanted to show you some progress that we made our our house. Got it all painted. Huge improvement. People have some crazy reactions since it was white for 100+ years.

 

[Fabrik8]

Man this thread is an inspiration. I wanted to show you some progress that we made our our house. Got it all painted. Huge improvement. People have some crazy reactions since it was white for 100+ years.
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Well, that looks a lot more interesting. Great job on removing those hedges too, that makes a huge difference.

 

[ramjo]

Man this thread is an inspiration. I wanted to show you some progress that we made our our house. Got it all painted. Huge improvement. People have some crazy reactions since it was white for 100+ years.
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Thanks! Hopefully I can get some more pics up here soon. I had a computer crash last week and thought I lost my pictures but they were able to get them back.

Your looks good. x2 on pulling up the bushes.

 

[ramjo]

Mo' Flo' and my first attempt at refacing one of the fireplaces. I used some local handmade brick from the old elementary school that was torn down a few years ago. After moving a couple hundred bricks about 3 times over the past few.years, I'm glad they finally found a resting spot.

Floor guys filling cracks and holes

Sanded down handrail and banisters, as well as added and reworked the post.

 

[ramjo]

Used some Lowe's Chinese oak plywood to case in the old post and reworked some old wood from one of my barns to trim it out with. I think they turned out decent.

Second fireplace reface attempt. I have lots of respect for masons. I told my brother it's "rustic" not rough

It end up a little better than the first and topped it off with mantel (Put your internet levels away!)

 

[rockcity]

Awesome!


I have tons of ideas. Mostly copying you.


Demo day today! (Day 1). Circa 1901 house.

Keep up the good work!

 

[rockcity]

What are you doing for a hearth? Brick or other?

Please keep the original wood fireplace.

I'm heartbroken I have to demo one of mine.

 

[ramjo]

Awesome!


I have tons of ideas. Mostly copying you.


Demo day today! (Day 1). Circa 1901 house.



Keep up the good work!

Thanks! Copy away, and keep us updated on your progress , might have to steal some of your ideas too .

Looks like you are working with some nice high ceilings and some wide crown! That picture is deceptive, makes it look like you have an Alice in Wonderland door into the bathroom . You planning on some transoms over your doors, seems like yours would be a good candidate for that....


I'm almost back to the point of wanting to start work on it again


The hearths we're just poured concrete that had been painted. I repoured the one in the dining room that had broken in half from lack of support. I think I'm just going to leave them that way. I like that they are same level as the wood floor, so nothing to trip over or stump a toe on.

The dining room fireplace is still useful as wood burning, the other two are just for looks, I may eventually put gas logs in one day just for emergency backup heat.

 

[Wes]

Don't you guy's watch horror movies? Everybody knows all old farmhouses are haunted! I'm sure they were built on old Indian burial grounds as well. You guys are toast!

 

[rockcity]

That door into the bathroom only measured 5'-8" and the ceiling in the bathroom was 6'-6". It was an addition but a VERY early addition.

Yep, ceilings are 10'. The crown is wide but fairly modern as its laid on top of Sheetrock. At least they coped the corners when installing it. I saved most of the crown. My fireplace has to come down as you can see multiple cracks in it. It leans about 6" at the top. I will end up using many of the bricks to reface the other fireplace and likely run the brick all the way up the wall to the ceiling. But, I did find T&G bead board hidden under the popcorn Sheetrock ceiling. And, what looks like white cedar shakes under the old tin roof. So far all of my surprises have been positive.


How real-time are your recent pictures? Where are you with the renno now?

 

[jcramsey]

Second fireplace reface attempt. I have lots of respect for masons. I told my brother it's "rustic" not rough

Fireplaces turned out . If it were my handiwork it would be more like

 

[UTfball68]

Man...this thread is absolutely amazing. I truly can appreciate the craftsmanship and the balls to take on a project like this.

 

[ramjo]

So far all of my surprises have been positive.


How real-time are your recent pictures? Where are you with the renno now?

That's awesome you are finding some hidden treasures instead of turds!

Those pictures were from right before Christmas. The floor guys finished up final coat on Christmas Eve, if I remember correctly.

My brother and his wife were expecting a baby late April and my wife had promised to host a baby shower for them at the end of February, so that became my deadline for getting the first floor ready. I pretty much got it ready a couple days before the shower, but I still have closet system to build and some other little stuff that need done to be completely finished on first floor. I haven't worked on it anymore since we moved in though . I'll try to get it up to speed with my next picture posts....I was trying to drag it out a little longer before I had to start working on it again to keep up to date progress

Fireplaces turned out . If it were my handiwork it would be more like

I've got about 3-4 bricks that need fixed t the top of the chimney if you want practice

Man...this thread is absolutely amazing. I truly can appreciate the craftsmanship and the balls to take on a project like this.

Thanks! It has been a fun project so far and super cool to see the transformation. I wish I had your motor building craftsmanship , kudos on building some nasty 400s.

 

[jcramsey]

My brother and his wife were expecting a baby late April and my wife had promised to host a baby shower for them at the end of February, so that became my deadline for getting the first floor ready.

You're welcome

 

[ramjo]

Here are a few of the floor right after they sanded and finished. We went with Minwax Dark Walnut stain.

Pine floor in the addition w/ transition to original oak floor.

 

[rockcity]

How's that transition work with the walls? I have similar situations and considered what you didn but can't seem to visualize how well it would work with a doorway or framed opening to an adjacent room

 

[ramjo]

About the same time the floors were done, my father-in-law was finishing up the base cabinets. My wife had given him a few pictures, told him a few details and he did the rest.

With bases in we were ready for some tops. My wife had originally wanted Cararra Marble, but after learning about etching and not looking "new" over the years, she dropped the idea of that. We walked through a big warehouse in Asheville, but she really didn't find anything she liked. I wanted Black Leathered/ honed granite but that got axed quickly. She ended up calling Trinity Granite in Roan Mtn. and told them what she was looking for. They emailed her this picture of some quartzize that had the look she wanted and durabilty as well. They shipped it from Charlotte with no condition to purchase for her to look at, which I thought was pretty good. She liked it so, thats what we ended up with.

Even with his fancy laser, I had to cut him a cardboard template for the sink bump out.

Installed

 

[ramjo]

I'll edit that mess

 

[trailhugger]

Cabinets and counters look great! Only thing I would do different would be to paint the toe kick dark so the feet stand out more.

 

[ramjo]

How's that transition work with the walls? I have similar situations and considered what you didn but can't seem to visualize how well it would work with a doorway or framed opening to an adjacent room

I took this for you last night. This about a 6' opening. Hope it helps with the visualization.

And this is going into the closet.

 

[Fabrik8]

Kitchen cabinets and counters are totally not my style, but they look really great. That's going to be a really nice kitchen.

 

[rockcity]

I took this for you last night. This about a 6' opening. Hope it helps with the visualization.

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And this is going into the closet.

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Those look good. I have a few places where the floors run perpindiculiar to each other at the room transition. I'm trying to make a plan for the transition that looks good. My initial thoughts is to put a transition strip in there like you did but use a completely different wood and stain rather than try to match it. Yours turned out good. So I'm torn on what I'm doing now.

 

[ramjo]

Cabinets and counters look great! Only thing I would do different would be to paint the toe kick dark so the feet stand out more.

Trying to keep it subtle .....hadn't thought about painting it a different color before though. I think she wished she would have painted all the bases grey though, makes the counter tops stand out a lot more.