Hermann house renovation

[Teacher Terry]

Love the room and the view!!!

[iris lilies]

DH finished the last pieces of kitchen installation last week: backsplash tile, crown molding, and dishwasher panel.

Finished kitchen here. The backsplash has a blue cast, but it is green. Green marble.

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[iris lilies]

Next up: finish the laundry room and linen closet area outside of the main bathroom downstairs.Tile floor has already been completed. We are currently doing laundry in the basement so it will be nice to have first floor laundry facility.

[catherine]

Beautiful kitchen! The colors are gorgeous--although I have to imagine the backsplash in green--it definitely comes off as blue-grey.

The 1st floor laundry sounds great! We have a stackable unit on our "first" (and only) floor, and it's so much better than it used to be having to go down to the dark, depressing unfinished basement to do laundry. In fact, my DIL (the one living in our house) transformed my former home office right off the kitchen to a first floor laundry room. At first I thought that was a bad use of first floor real estate--more and more people want designated home offices--but she's a) a clean freak and b) has two young boys, so it has actually been great for her.

I love seeing your progress reports! It's been quite the journey. When did you buy the house? 3 years ago?

[iris lilies]

Beautiful kitchen! The colors are gorgeous--although I have to imagine the backsplash in green--it definitely comes off as blue-grey.

The 1st floor laundry sounds great! We have a stackable unit on our "first" (and only) floor, and it's so much better than it used to be having to go down to the dark, depressing unfinished basement to do laundry. In fact, my DIL (the one living in our house) transformed my former home office right off the kitchen to a first floor laundry room. At first I thought that was a bad use of first floor real estate--more and more people want designated home offices--but she's a) a clean freak and b) has two young boys, so it has actually been great for her.

I love seeing your progress reports! It's been quite the journey. When did you buy the house? 3 years ago?

I was looking through old posts on this website and I think you guys bought your house about the same time as we did. We made an offer December 2017 and we closed March 2018. At the time, we bought it as a weekend house but in the back of my mind, I knew it was big enough to become our permanent house if we wanted to do that.

We enjoyed a few few years of doing absolutely nothing to the house. It was such a old creaky thing, yet entirely livable, so we spent all of our time working on the 1 acre yard. Cleaning, cleaning, making beds.

in our city house, recently sold, the new people are turning our breakfast nook into a laundry room.Basement laundry service is so passe!

[catherine]

I was looking through old posts on this website and I think you guys bought your house about the same time as we did. We made an offer December 2017 and we closed March 2018. At the time, we bought it as a weekend house but in the back of my mind, I knew it was big enough to become our permanent house if we wanted to do that.

We enjoyed a few few years of doing absolutely nothing to the house. It was such a old creaky thing, yet entirely livable, so we spent all of our time working on the 1 acre yard. Cleaning, cleaning, making beds.

in our city house, recently sold, the new people are turning our breakfast nook into a laundry room.Basement laundry service is so passe!

Wow, time flies! Yes, we saw our home on September 17, 2017, made an offer in November, and closed January 9, 2018, so you and I made our big home and life changes at the same time. We only toggled between VT and NJ for a year before realizing we could happily live up here full time.

[JaneV2.0]

Very handsome kitchen!

[Teacher Terry]

That’s gorgeous IL! My condo doesn’t have laundry because it’s built in 1978 with a laundry room. However, they allow people to install apartment size washers and dryers. The dryer vents into a small bucket of water. I already installed the dryer in my office/guest bedroom and having a plumber come this week to give me an estimate to install the washer.

They hook it up to the plumbing under the bathroom sink. My bathroom is so small that they will have to hook it up at the end of the hallway. Then they can run the lines right through the wall to the sink. I am very excited about having my own laundry again after 2 years.

[jp1]

I love that red stove Iris! Such a fun pop of color to spice up the room. Much more exciting than the black and stainless stove we have in our kitchen.

[catherine]

Spooky Facebook eavesdropping crap.

Look what keeps popping up on my feed....

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