As you will see, we made a lot of changes inside. We took everything down to the studs and sub-flooring, as well as moved and/or added doors, windows and walls.
Here is our main entry and living room:
-Shifted the front door location and replaced the door.
-Moved and replaced the main window.
-Stripped and refinished the original hardwood floors.
-Added new hardwood flooring in the entry to match.
-Removed the wall in between the original front door and the upper staircase
-New Sheetrock, paint, trim and lighting.
Below is a video clip of Josh demolishing the wall.
Removing the old flooring from the entry was a lot of work, as there were 5 different layers of flooring. And the wall Josh took down was almost entirely made of wood. We believe the wood wall was original to the home built in 1910. It provided us with several long 1" think beautiful old boards.
With the old wood, we decided to build a bookcase for this wall. Our inspiration was a bookcase we had seen at Crate & Barrel (pictured below), their cost: $1499.00
Our bookcase: $300.00 for pipes and fittings.
I love having such a handy husband who can build things for me and I love how it turned out! ...Now I want to use some of the old ship-lap wood to build some storage crates for the bottom shelves.
The Crate & Barrel bookcase and close-ups of our shelves.
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