Home Renovation

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>>1194922

I don't have a true before picture, but I have one from just after ripping up the ugly 80's brown carpet, demolishing 80's cabinets and scraping off the horrible popcorn ceiling... I also removed a wall that was put up to divide the kitchen and living room. In the last few weeks, everything on the first floor has been gutted to subfloor and drywall, new paint, new doors, painted all of the ugly brown wood trim white, and installed new cabinets, working on counter tops, and got flooring installed. Trying to do this on a budget, and so far I'm under $2500 for everything. Only lack crown molding, finishing baseboards, and tiling the kitchen and installing new toilet and sink, and finishing shower tile. Coming together.

Almost a before picture...

>>1194922
Oh, also putting a nice counter height bar between the center column and the left wall, under the light fixture. Should seat 4 nicely, 6 in a pinch.

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Trying to copy pic related, currently putting the cabinets in.
Has question, should a spot for the microwave go above the fridge or below the counter?

>>1194930
I'd go below the counter. Nothing like trying to remove scalding hot food from the microwave, above your head...

>>1194931
Fair point, also wondering what's a good cabinet to draw ratio. Also plates in the pantry or in a cupboard?

>>1194937
Bump, kinda need to know this stuff. My first time designing a kitchen.

>>1194937
Depends on your needs. Personally, I'd say about 2:1 Drawers to cabinets. Plates, in cupboard/upper cabinets. I'm doing open shelving for my plates and cups. I'm pretty minimalist, so I'll just have one nice set of each, that I don't mind being on display. Plus, not having upper cabinets gives the room a more open and larger feel. But it's all in preferences.

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>>1194923
I think we have the same living room ceiling fan.

Balls deep in a kitchen/utility room remodel right now.
>Removed the cheap formica counters
>Pulled out all the 1972 cabinets
>Knocked out soffits
>Added an outlet for the over-the-range microwave
>Added an outlet for the dishwasher (Previous owners put one of those extension-cord ends on the romex, connected the dishwasher to that, and shoved it in)
>Removed shitty peel-n-stick tiles
>Pulled/scooped up underlayment (some of it was badly water damaged)
>Water heater out, washer/dryer out
>Contracted out the subfloor replacement along with a few sole plates, that was just done early this week

>Now drywalling things back in, goal is to start painting this weekend.
Pic extremely related.

>>1195027
Sounds very familiar. That's pretty much exactly how my kitchen went, minus the water heater and washer/dryer. Peel n stick vinyl tiles are the devil.

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>>1194922

i'm gutting my upstairs bathroom. for whatever reason, the upstairs only had a shower, and the downstairs only had a bathtub, which is fucking stupid. i was just going to rip out and replace the tub and cabinet sink, but when i pulled the cabinet sink out to put in the pedestal sink i bought i found an unfinished hole in the floor for the plumbing. glad i found that, because once i started tearing out the tile to replace it, i found out that the idiots never leveled the subfloor and instead just poured thinset and let it run into the NE corner of the room. there's like 3 inches of fucking thinset in the corner there by the chisel that i'm breaking up so i can replace the subfloor (and reinforce it for the fuckoff giant bathtub i bought)

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>>1195133

and then i have to re-drywall the whole fucking thing. i'm having a hell of a time trying to get the shower base out, they glued that fucker down but good.

>don't buy a house that was built in 1900 and then renovated over 117 years by fucking idiots

>>1194930
Are you keeping the cabinets and island outta level too?

>>1194930
Holy cow, that is ugly as fuck.

>>1195135
The bottom of the shower pan is usually pressed/weighted into self levelling thinset, so it's going to be a bitch to get it free of that. Don't forget to use cement board around the shower/bath and green board everywhere else. Good luck anon.

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We've renovated my in-laws entire house over the 12-18 months. Almost done. Will share some before/after. Before kitchen first

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>>1195217

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>>1195219
Almost finished

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>>1195221

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>>1195222
Also took out wall between kitchen dining, and put in a pass through between kitchen living room.

>>1195215

thanks, bro, i appreciate it. and thanks for that tip on the shower pan - i'm betting there's a pool of thinset in that SE corner where the shower pan sits, too, those ratfuckers. they legit just glued the trim to the drywall around the shower and it was rotting away. and yeah, i'm going to use cement board for sure since i'm doing a whole tiled-in shower/corner bathtub. it's gonna be art deco and sexy as fuck once i get it done. i'll post pics when i get there if the internet is still around by the time i finish it.

>>1195215

sidenote, can i just run my fucking hammer drill around the edge of the shower pan? i did about 2 hrs of sledgehammer and chisel trying to pull up the ceramic tile and said fuck a bunch of this shit and bought a bosch hammerdrill with the chisel attachment. as a bonus i got a bit for it to do the tuckpointing on my brick porch this summer.

>>1195231
Yeah, shouldn't be a problem, just take care to push it through on the right angle, otherwise all you're going to do it's tear up your subfloor.

>>1195239
Generally, I use a sawzall with a 16-18" carbide blade. It's fairly flexible and with care and luck you can slide it nicely along the floor and it'll extricate a 24"x 36" shower pan pretty quickly. Sometimes I'll have to resort to my air hammer though.

>>1195146
Hopefully not
>>1195147
I like it

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Putting the finishing touches on the workbench in my garage. Still some detail work to finish.

Before

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>>1195300
After

Bench top is epoxy resin, little disappointed about the yellowing compared to the pure white it was before pouring the surface. Gonna be reloading on it, so I wanted a clean smooth surface.

>>1195221
>cabinets
nice
>appliances
look good
>that tile
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.

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>>1194923
Found a better before picture. What a change...

>>1195231
Hilti

>>1195242

i don't have an air hammer yet, but i plan on buying one soon because i have a spot in my roof that i just noticed is sagging that i'll have to take care of on top of all the other construction i've got going on. sawsall i do have, i'll go get a carbide blade if the hammerdrill doesn't cut it (har har har).

i'm not worried about tearing up the subfloor, desu, because i'm going to replace that anyway - it's completely not level, and i have to reinforce under it to hold the roughly 900lbs full bathtub that's going to sit over it.

thanks for being helpful bro!

>>1195325
Kek. My in-laws are both artists, and not afraid of something a little different. IRL it actually blends in with the brown of the cabinets, new grey floor tile, stainless steel appliances and the blue grey paint that's going up soon. It's not so bad when you see the room as a whole, I promise.

>>1195325

i agree, that tile looks... well, the nicest way i can put it is kitschy. i really like that teal color, and if you'd have done mostly white with a solid row of teal and a solid row of patterned tile to the counter, or a row of alternating patterned and teal, would look fine. i like the patterns and the teal, i just don't like the arrangement, i guess.

but hey, if you're happy with it, then awesome, don't listen to us assholes on the internets, lol.

>>1195354
>Not having an entirely beige flatpack kitchen
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>1195357

that's boring af and easily will look messy

>>1195357
Ikr. Kek.

>>1195352
Ok, if you're not concerned with your subfloor, if you have an oscillating tool, could just cut around the pan and pretty that piece of subfloor out with it. It's easy enough to screw in a piece of ply afterwards.

>>1195362

shit, that's a great idea, i may as well do that

thank you for seriously being helpful, man

>>1195377
I'm guessing you knew I meant pry and not pretty that piece of floor out kek. Autocorrect sucks.

No problem anon. Good luck!

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Got the new drywall textured and primed, touched up a few more spots. Killed my gallon of Kilz with just enough to finish everything.

Got the ceiling painted, >pic related.

Need to go buy another gallon or two of paint, don't have enough left over from when I repainted in 2012 to do the walls.

>>1195480
Looking good anon. Go treat yourself to a night out.

>>1195517
Or don't, and save your money. Go get pizza and eat it on the bonnet of your car at the beach.

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>>1195312
That's nice. Planning on turning a 10x15m room into a workshop and ditch my two shipping containers - above ground - which are the current tool sheds. Have been looking around for inspiration, so thanks for posting.

Currently there is no DIY, I'm babysitting an army of high voltage electricians to make sure they don't get lost. Apparently the power utilities require people with actual credentials to install and turn on 22kv power lines.

>>1195517
It's coming along. Not as fast as I'd like, but it's coming along.

>>1195521
Another night in drinking alone at home. Didn't really even have a dinner. No beaches here.
Need to run to a few stores, grab lunch somewhere... paint the walls... probably meet up with a buddy tonight for dinner, since he's in town for training.

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>>1194922

Countertops finished, just need to secure them tomorrow. Finished painting the final coat of white on all of the kitchen window and door trim, and baseboards. Started work on the rather large bar that will be going on the left side of the opening, mounted to the column and the left wall. It'll be 81" long and 36" wide, counter height and should seat 6 easily, though I only have 4 stools. Also ran my LED tape lighting in the space behind the moldings over the opening between the kitchen and living room. Picture makes it look like shit, too bright and harsh, but it's actually very low level, soft and diffuse light. It does however reveal how shitty the drywall on the ceiling looks. At this point I don't even give a shit, I'm just ready to get it all finished and into living condition so I can move on to other projects around the house (bathroom, exterior of house, new front and rear deck, landscaping...)

>>1196506
I hear you, it becomes a grind after a while. It'll all be worth it in the end anon.

>>1195592
Thats looking awesome there Bunk...