Dis5150
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2015
Remodel updates!
This is the kitchen cabinet we took out to make room for a doorway into the office, our temporary path to get into the kitchen (I forgot to take a pic of it still up, oops!)
Here is where the cabinet was!
Another angle of where the doorway will be.
Temporary doorway! DH took it all down and I lugged it all out of the house!
Framed out our old entryway into the kitchen. That will be a solid wall in Mom's living room on the other side of the wall.
Framed out doorway from her living room side of the wall.
Took the drywall off of this outside wall so we could put up insulation (our house has none!). But Yuck! We found dryrot!! We contemplated what to do and ultimately decided to go ahead with the remodel as we are trying to get her into her space.
Insulated that wall.
Then this was my idea! We built a second wall, next to the first wall. This will allow us to work on the dryrot from the outside, without disturbing Mom's area. Framing up!
Then we insulated that wall too! She should stay warm!
DH framing a wall in our hallway to close off Mom's area. We actually did this first, before the other work but I got out of order!
Framing.
Drywall and insulation going up! Insulation is more for a sound barrier.
and a solid core door into her area, hopefully to help with the sound also.
That's all the pics I have on Facebook so far. We are much farther ahead than this so I will update more when I get the pics onto Facebook!
ETA: Looking at these pics makes my house look so dirty!! Ugh! But hopefully we can get it all back to normal when we get Mom's area done! Please don't judge, lol!
This is the kitchen cabinet we took out to make room for a doorway into the office, our temporary path to get into the kitchen (I forgot to take a pic of it still up, oops!)
Here is where the cabinet was!
Another angle of where the doorway will be.
Temporary doorway! DH took it all down and I lugged it all out of the house!
Framed out our old entryway into the kitchen. That will be a solid wall in Mom's living room on the other side of the wall.
Framed out doorway from her living room side of the wall.
Took the drywall off of this outside wall so we could put up insulation (our house has none!). But Yuck! We found dryrot!! We contemplated what to do and ultimately decided to go ahead with the remodel as we are trying to get her into her space.
Insulated that wall.
Then this was my idea! We built a second wall, next to the first wall. This will allow us to work on the dryrot from the outside, without disturbing Mom's area. Framing up!
Then we insulated that wall too! She should stay warm!
DH framing a wall in our hallway to close off Mom's area. We actually did this first, before the other work but I got out of order!
Framing.
Drywall and insulation going up! Insulation is more for a sound barrier.
and a solid core door into her area, hopefully to help with the sound also.
That's all the pics I have on Facebook so far. We are much farther ahead than this so I will update more when I get the pics onto Facebook!
ETA: Looking at these pics makes my house look so dirty!! Ugh! But hopefully we can get it all back to normal when we get Mom's area done! Please don't judge, lol!