Yeh, I been in this house 18+ years, it was built in '72 same as the vette.....it's only 1200' as built, with a 2 car garage, and a widened driveway by p/o.....I have taken down 5 huge oak trees around the house, have two more to go.....but outta $$$ for that crap....1/4 acre lot....hillside for drainage I put a room addition on back 22x14 off the back master bedroom, blew out a window into a doorway arch.....had the block work and slab poured and built the rest myself this all about 15 years ago, rented it out with the Mbr as an apt. for about 3 years....kitchen setup off the old master bath in the addition.....18 years ago I replumbed this entire house, up and over with CPVC, the galv iron rusted out in the slab....
PO had the kitchen redone into the old dining room with sliding door out to back patio, patio had a porch on it at one point, so I poured over the slab and enlarged it, because of a tear out of a glass room addition, that looks like a Wendy's with the curved glass on the back corner/away from the house....I helped a guy take it out, for the aluminum and glass so I rebuilt it on back of my house, and tiled the interior floor, also blew out the garage window on side, and put in a workshop 5' deep and some 15' long plastic and metal roofing, old shed against house is more storage this all near the driveway....
when wife Linda came on board, she was trapped cooking on a crappy white smooth top electric range the house came with....so out with that and put in a gas range...running BBQ tank for gas....and the stove was still in a crappy position, hidden behind the fridge and facing a blank wall, so when cooking, she was isolated from the flow of the house.....like like my mother was decades ago, so we played around with designs, and so I blew out the bearing utility wall between kitchen and garage, moving it toward the gasoline ledge in the garage, adding 100' to the kitchen space, bringing the washer/drier inside into their own hutch......chipped up the floor, ran gas and electric power conduits to the center of the room, where the range is now, facing the family area....made my own range hood with my welder buddy's help......had to put steel in the attic framing to redistribute the load ....also moved the HVAC unit out to the garage....water heater out to the old shed,
Made the kitchen cabinets myself in the garage, European style, no face frames, solid Maple doors off internet shipped from Arkansas......made my own counter tops, formica covering......blew out part of another wall to open up the kitchen to the living area a bit more... put a 2'x4' skylight in the living room, replaced ALL the windows in the house with white vinyl lo E insulated glass
Front door was found in the trash around the corner, some idiot chopped the living hell outta the hinge side of that solid Honduran Mahogany door, took it to the cab shop and had them cut it nice and straight, found some matching grade/color wood and fixed the door good and solid, sanded down and finished in urethane, tore out the crap OEM door, and jamb and upgraded the entire install, thing opens and closes like a bank vault now, solid brass hardware...
But that not enough, the hall bath was a mess with the old tub only 32 w and 5' long, crappy OEM tile/etc..... stupid little framed in 18" door to a linen closet, and a deep coat closet.....hell with THAT, bought a large jacuzzi/whirlpool tub moved the wall, removing the linen closet and making the door at an angle, and built a custom cabinet in the new corner of the bath top/bottom doors and custom tiled surround for the tub,/shower redid all the lighting and sink/vanity and toilet of course, and the floor also in both bathrooms......
COSTS, 3500 bux total on kitchen remodel, same on the hall bath, another 3500 bux, but Linda wanted to do more upgrade than I cared to do, so that added about a grand to the total, but what the hell......the room addition was 8700 bux total with the metal roof, outside door, and 3 huge windows....
I used to be an ET, spent 20 years in that trade, but it got ran outta business by that large Orient based company called Pitch-it-Tronics......went into home remodeling in '85 or so, let them import HOUSES!!!!
so having every took known to man except a phillips screw driver.....it was a natural thing for me to rebuild all this shit.....
and add on to the front porch with a deck and plastic roof over, just screened it in for shade for wife's plants that got too much sun...small deck in back that is also plastic roof over, next to the room addition......
age 71 now, and I"m tired.....all I can do to work on the vette....:surrender::lol::smash:
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