New House Renovation Plans Part 1

So, I know many of you will think we are absolutely crazy when you see the original house we bought.   I mean, just 6 years ago, we bought the house that i said, "No way in hell" on a Wednesday, and Mike bought on Friday.  Well, I finally paid him back.  I looked at this house on a Wednesday, when he was in Chicago for work, and put in an offer that night, before he had even seen it in person.  :) 

Granted, we knew what we wanted, and another offer had been put on the house, so we had to move quick.  Our offer was accepted on Friday, and Mike saw the house on Saturday.  Also, we could have backed out at the inspection if he hated it.

While this house is completely out of 1973, it just needs cosmetic stuff done to it.  Not the complete overhaul we did on the first house (ripped down to the studs and start from scratch on everything).  So, I am going to "borrow" Young House Love's idea, and show rooms and list what we plan on doing to it, show what we have done to it, and will post progress updates as we go!

We wanted a house that was bigger (need a home office for Mike), wanted bedrooms on one level (as opposed to us downstairs, Jacob upstairs), more land, an outbuilding, decent home (aka, not a lot of work) and not a corner lot, preferably a home on a quiet street.  And it needed to stay in our budget, around the Afton area.  Yea, good luck.

So along came this house, which matched most requirements.  Best part, it is on a dead end road.  No more speedway outside our house!  Bigger, more land, attached and detached garage, in our budget range, in Afton.  Cons:  2 bedrooms up, one down, original 40 year old carpet in the basement, and paneling.  Oh the paneling....

Advance apologies for the pictures, som are dark, not best shots, but you get the idea

The Outside (will get updated pics, w/o snow soon!)

Front view

Back of house
 

Back property line

The Enrtyway

View into the house

View from LR down to entryway

 To Do:

• Rip down paneling (done)
• Fix sheetrock
• Find new light fixture
• Replace door/window
• Replace wrought iron railings
• New tile instead of brick
• Paint

The Living Room

View to left is entryway, tall door is hallway to bed/bathrooms, other door to kitchen

Oh the paneling, so so much paneling...

This is standing by hallway.  Left would be kitchen, far left of fireplace dining room, and right side is big windows to front yard.

 

To DO:

• Remove Paneling (done)
• Fix sheetrock
• Remove curtains (done) and hang new ones (purchased)
• Replace carpet (about 5 years out hopefully...)
• Paint
• Replace ceiling sheetrock and popcorn texture with knockdown
• Replace trim
• Figure out lighting in here (no lights in ceiling)

Dining Room

View from LR, to left is kitchen, thru patio doors is sunroom

To Do:

• Rip down paneling (done)
• Fix sheetrock
• Remove and hang new curtains (purchased)
• Paint
• Replace light fixture
• Long term: 
• Knock out wall to the left, extending kitchen
• Putting sliding glass door in
• Remove carpet for kitchen flooring
• We will make the kitchen larger, more a combined kit/dr, similar to previous home, we dont care for a formal dining area.  For now, will be used as a play area/toy room

The Sunroom (so far our fav room)

View from DR, faces SW, back lot of house

Original homeowners stuff, better view of hte paneling 

To Do:

• Paint paneling (done)
• Rip down blinds (done)
• Replace north side with curtains (done)
• Find new light fixtures
• Rip out carpet (that is glued to the floor)
• Replace carpet (picked out)
• Replace windows
• Make a four season room (right now 3 season - no insulation, plan is within 1 year)
• Replace paneling when we make 4 season with sheetrock
• Rip out patio door into this room
• Put in french doors to this room

Kitchen

View from DR into Kitchen

Eat in kitchen area with view to deck (south side of hosue)

Check out the floor!!

View from Eat in are towards DR

To Do:

• Short term:
• Paint walls (done)
• Paint paneling (done)
• Remove curtains (done)
• Hang curtains for patio (purchased)
• Make curtain valance for over the sink
• Replace light fixtures
• Put down cheap flooring?
• Paint pantry (done)
• Reline shelves (part done)
• Long Term:
• Move eat in kitchen wall over 3 feet into kitchen
• Move patio door in here to what is now dining room
• Replace Patio door with windows
• Replace cupboards
• Tile floor
• Replace cooktop with flat cooktop version
• Replace countertops with stone
• Replace 3 container sink with normal sink
• Knock out wall into dining room and combine the two rooms
• Get new fridge (prefer side by side)

I will do the lower level in another post, as well as the upstairs bedrooms, as this post is already lengthy!