The bathroom part of the project is complete. Still waiting on the pantry cabinet for the kitchen but should have that in a couple of weeks. Here's what the bathroom looks like now.
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This is what it looked like before:
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Ooh, that is much better! Very nice.
Thank you. It's a huge improvement. The old cabinets were pretty much useless because neither of us is anywhere near basketball player tall. And we used to have a laundry hamper just sitting against the wall in front of the washer so that guests would bump their knees on it if they sat down on the toilet. Now it's out of the way in the cabinet. And the cabinet top is a great folding area for clothes.Originally Posted by Tradd
Your “before “laundry nook looks pretty much exactly like my current new one. I originally thought we’d have stacked washer/dryer with a cabinet on the side, but DH was resistant to that for some reason. It didn’t matter that much to me so he won
If we weren’t tight in storage we probably wouldn’t have done this project. But with the space freed up by taking the furnace out of the hallway cabinet just outside the bathroom it made sense to reconfigure the whole space to maximize both the kitchen and bathroom. (The entire left cabinet in the hall was a 40 inch deep furnace closet. When we installed the heat pump we had the air handler moved to the attic since the ducts already ran to the attic and then to the bedrooms from there.)
I was lukewarm about the new stacked laundry machines but we got $400 selling the ten year old white ones on Craigslist and it’s nice having the dryer controls on the bottom instead of up by the ceiling. Plus, at 10 years newer these ones will hopefully last longer than the old ones would have.
Contractor finished the install of the pantry cabinet today! I’ll post pics of ithe kitchen and bathroom in a day or two nearby friend is coming for dinner so we still need to finish cleaning up and putting everything in their new spots.
Another thing we finally had done by contractor while he was here is installing two 8x8 outdoor shades on the back of the second floor. (The SW side of the house, where my office is). This should help keep office cool in the afternoons and cut our a/c usage a fair amount. Funny thing about that is that the sticks for the shade cranks are only four feet long so obviously not reachable since the shades are mounted 20 feet up. At first I was trying to figure out how to extend them then I did a search for ‘long pole with hook’ on Amazon and found one for $25 on Amazon! It arrives tomorrow, in time for Monday’s expected heatwave.
Nice! Looking forward to pictures.
Our contractor replaced our front steps/deck, and they are coming back today to replace our cellar door which is pretty flimsy and rotted. That will be it for us for awhile.
The shades are an absolute success! It got up to 85 today, which would normally mean that my office would be up to 80 by 5pm. Instead it's 76 in the office right now.
The long stick with a hook had a few issues. First off the telescoping aspect of it means that when you twist the bottom the telescope junctions just slide on each other. So I had to run a piece of packing tape the length of it to stop that. I'll probably try to implement a more permanent solution tomorrow, maybe drilling holes at the joints and running bolts through. The other issue is that the hook doesn't mesh with the shades well so I ended up taping the wand that came with the shades to the top end of the pole. I'll try to more permanently attach that tomorrow as well. But overall I'm quite pleased with how effective the shades are. This should reduce our a/c electric usage pretty substantially.
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Great idea! Glad they’re working as expected.
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