Hey y'all, it's Anne!: Renovation Vacation

Well… the time has come… a major renovation project… well, at least more major than I can do on my own. At some point in time, round about ’84 I’d say, someone turned the old porch into an enclosed porch/sunroom area. Why 1984 you ask? Well, because I still have the washer and dryer from 1984 as proof (no, they won’t be staying much longer). Whomever did the work certainly didn’t have an eye for design or function, at least not one I can figure out. Genius put the washer and dryer right in the middle of the room, rather than on a side wall, therefore cutting down on the good “usable” space for the sunroom part. Behold…

Door to Nowhere

Well, the room was “ugly as homemade sin” (as my friend Angela’s husband William likes to say). Well, maybe not ugly, but very bland. There was a Door to Nowhere (one point was a window, someone made into a door, but to go through it meant you had to climb over the dryer, lame). Something had to change. So I covered the Door to Nowhere with a curtain, pulled up the old worn out carpet, put in new doors, and painted the walls and floors. I fashioned another curtain to disguise the appliances as best I could. Still, the “sunroom” felt more like a hallway to the back door.

May the odds be ever in my favor...

Day 1: Must try to have vision. I can see it all coming together, I’m just more of a finished project, “oh let’s pick out pretty paint colors and furniture” kind of person, not so much on the demo and drywall. The odds were not so much in my favor today, shit happened... What was supposed to be a simple tear down of some 70s wood paneling turned into a full exterior wall replacement. Not only was the thing COVERED in mold (yikes!) but apparently it was also the final resting place of six birds (GROSS!). Birds and mold gone and the entire side of the room taken off, here’s what it looks like partially put back together….

On the left will be the enclosure for the washer & dryer, behind closed doors, out of sight! On the right will be a broom/ storage closet. The third picture is the outside of the new wall in progress.

Oh, and what was supposed to be a simple replacement of deck boards turned into a total deck redo, what did I get myself into?!