Wanna see my kitchen?
 

And my attic, too. Photos attached.

This was my kitchen as of yesterday.

ewwwwww yukk!

I had you down for being more upscale than that. :hmmm:

Here's a bigger view.

I'll be interested to see what you did with the attic. That space had potential.

You need to set out some bowls of antifreeze before that pest population gets out of hand.

Wait. It won't show all the pictures. Let me do it one at a time.

Kitchen view 2.

No, I don't. Please delete this thread.

You were obviously mistaken.

Cat's smell but.....

ROFL

And now from the other side.

And now for the attic.

Since we put them in our wills, we now refer to them as the Crown Princes.

The stairwell coming up to the attic.

Rain Man can't properly resize pictures. I'm disappointed.

A view from the big room of the attic into the hallway.

I know I'm sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the other shoe to drop. I know there's a moral to the story.

You'll be a guest in my house and you'll like it.

What's wrong with my pictures? They're perfect. They're exactly the size I want them to be.

Was your home built in the 50s Kevin?

The big room, which was last updated in about 1942.

How old is this house? 1950s?

I'm guessing 1920's.

What did you use, paint?

I would desribe your decorating style as early eccentric.ROFL

Good guess. The house was built in 1906, but the kitchen was heavily remodeled in the early 1940s. You can see that the lower bank of cabinets is a different style that is original to the house, while the rest of the kitchen is from the 40s. The attic has 1940s wallpaper (or maybe 1950s), but where it has been torn, you can see the original 1906 wallpaper. Of course, most of that is below my National Geographic maps.

From the guy who messes up every thread so you have to scroll left to right with his pictures, I don't think I want you giving advise. Kevin's pictures are the perfect size.

so is this a new house you recently bought? Or is it your current house?

Whats with all the maps?? in the attic ?



Edit:
Nevermind, just read your post.



On second thought. Whats with all the maps ?

Now, in the kitchen, we've decided to make some changes and go with a minimalist look.

Is the brickwork original, from 1906?

Something is not right here................

ROFL

I've noticed that, too.

Those are where he buried the bodies.

Didn't you say you're getting ready to re-model? Please post a photoshop of the remodeling job.

I've lived here 10.5 years. The house turns 100 years old next month.

Shut up, illogical.

ROFL this will be the perfect room for your local crack whores to crash.

It's a very cool house. He's showing you the two rooms that needed the most updating IMO.

My wife didn't want to leave the exposed pipe, but I thought it was avant-garde.

If you could cover an entire room with maps, wouldn't you do it? I had a different wall section for each continent.

This part we left as is, though we may make some changes later.

This renovated would make a great little design studio for a work-at-home type. I could fix that up real nice.

We've been debating what to do with the attic, but then the meteor hit.

Yeah. It's in spectacular shape, too. There's only one place on the house where we've had any degradation.

The meteor took out most of the back of the roof and attic, so we're going to replace it with a small balcony.

Wow. That's amazing. Cliche, I know, but they don't build them like they used to. My house will be a pile of rubble in 50 years, let alone one hundred.

I grew in a house that 125 years old. Loved it.

Were there any historical provisions or considerations for modifying the exterior of the home?

Here's the hole that the meteor made. Everything on the other side of the tarp is sky.

Yeah. We can't change the front of the house or put in any skylights. Also, we can't make the house any taller because we're in a "height restriction zone" from that Colonnade that I drove you by in the park. They want the park to have a mountain view, so everything in a big cone west of it can't be over a certain height. Interestingly, our house is only about a foot short of the height, so we couldn't build a traditional dormer on the back of the house or it would violate that code. Apparently the height restriction has precedence over the historic stuff (at least on the back of the house), so they are letting us build a third-floor (roofless) deck that's not historically fitting to the home.

I do love this house. When we bought it, it needed a lot of care, but at the same time all of the basic infrastructure was in great shape. It's even still got the old knob-and-tube wiring in many places, but we were told that it's in such good shape that it wasn't worthwhile to replace it.

Interestingly, it's got both electrical circuits and natural gas lines going to the light fixtures. Apparently they wanted a backup plan in case that whole "electric light" stuff turned out to be a fad.

You mean our new master bedroom suite?

Here's another view.

Okay, okay, I admit it. It wasn't a meteor. We're remodeling. We're completely replacing the kitchen, and we're converting the attic to a master bedroom suite. We'll be redoing all of the walls with the map and we're adding a little balcony on the back of the house to hold our swamp cooler and have a little table and chairs.

The house turns 100 next month, and we're hoping to either get an article in the local paper, which has a weekly "check out this house" article on Saturdays, or get it on the local home tour.

I'm signing you up for Extreme Home Makeover, cause you got yourself a mess there. Can you come up with a really devastating storyline we could use to get you on the show?

I'm a refugee from the fighting in Iraq, and I came to this country with nothing more than the clothes on my back and a solid gold toilet from one of Saddam's palaces. From there on out, it was just hard work and plucky grit. Or maybe gritty pluck.

yup, that's your kitchen.

Uh...oh! You were calling it an attic so I assumed you had a master bedroom already!

Now that we've seen your kitchen can we see your operation? :)

Well...I guess so. But the scar is pretty much all healed.

The old office/den is becoming a library/office.

The old TV room is becoming a guest room/reading room.

The old master bedroom is becoming a TV room/den.

The old attic storage is becoming the master bedroom.

So you plan on having no guests?
What no other bedrooms besides the master bedroom?

What do you expect from a master Diplomacy Strategist.....?


(England you #@%@#$@#).... ;o)

I took this part:
The old TV room is becoming a guest room/reading room.
to mean:
The old TV room is becoming a guest room/reading room.

Nobody ever visits me. It's enigmatic.

But actually, my wife is pushing hard to turn the old TV room into a guest room, complete with bed and everything. I don't want to waste an entire room with an empty bed that'll get used twice a decade, so I'm pushing hard for just putting a nice, high-quality sleeper sofa in there and making it a reading room that can be converted to a guest room.

Anyone have any comments/opinions about guest rooms? Do you have a dedicated guest room? A sleeper sofa? What's the best route?

Dens, TV rooms in an old house=former bedrooms, usually.

Uh, if you were Germany, I apologize.

Nice house, Rain Man!

Why, thanks. I think it'll be even better when we finish the remodeling.

When will you start on the kitchen?

Probably about two days ago.

You'll never be finished remodeling, especially when you're married.

Trust me, I'm experienced. :p

Do NOT put a bed in there.

That's what I keep saying. It's a total waste of a room, especially given the poor visitor traffic we get. (And Rausch, if you're coming into town, I, uh, I have a remodeling project going on.) It's much better to put a sleeper sofa in there and get some use out of the room.

Are you serious about the meteor? When did that happen? :eek:

My wife was the same way, but it's one fight that I wouldn't give up. We have guests maybe once a year for a few days.

It's a waste of space if it's only a 'guest bedroom.'

Because that's where daddy sleeps when momma is pissed off.

Completely agree. I'm fighting that one hard.


Just got our first emergency. They're putting the joists in the attic, and are collapsing the plaster ceiling in our master bedroom. My wife is not happy about it, which means that I need to work really, really late tonight.

Meteor...foreign day laborer with sledge hammer...I have trouble telling them apart.