We've done a few major renovations in the house we're currently living in. We built my floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in my library with a rolling library ladder. Then we wrapped more floor-to-ceiling shelves around the other wall, with another rolling ladder. We built more bookshelves and an entertainment unit in the family room.
We've put distressed hardwood floors all through the upstairs of the house and a laminate floor downstair...all of this flooring replacing some rather mundane grey carpet that had been throughout the house. We also did hardwood on the steps. We got rid of all this carpet because of The Lovely wife's allergies and couldn't be happier that we did. We have no carpeting in the house at all, just area rugs, we also have re-tiled both our bathrooms, and re-stuccoed the walls of the entire house. And put up wrought iron bannisters, curtain rods, and iron gates out front.
Through all these various projects we actually lived in the house. At times, crowded in my office, sleeping on a mattress on the floor. We spent a month eating down at Victor's the local bistro.
We also did major work on the outside, re-stuccoing the outside walls, rebuilding the front wall, re-paving the driveway, raising and correcting the roofline of the garage with a major beam, extending and repairing the back deck, re-building the balcony and its railing (We have repaired the deck several times and the balcony rail...the deck's ready for a few more repairs before the annual Kentucky Derby party this year). We have laid brick walkways and a new brick driveway. We also added a concrete buffer against the original foundation and re-graded the front lawn to wick wetness away from the house.
We're severely eying the kitchen of late. And expect the roof may need attending to one of these days. The house has transformed from sort of a fifties modern to what I call a Southwest Modern. Very rustic with textured stucco walls, rough-hewn foors, heavy mission or southwestern furniture.
