Renovating Denver - One House at a Time

Autumn Leaf Stained Heart Pine

Here are a ton of pics of our hardwood floor! The floor is everywhere downstairs, up the stairs, in the master, in the second bathroom upstairs and in the upper hallway. The other 2 bedrooms upstairs will be carpeted.

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The Master Bath is Tiled and Grouted

Here are some pics of the finished tile. The floor and the shower have been grouted. The shower is still missing it’s seat … which will be a Corian solid surface piece.

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The French Door is in!

Finally we no longer have a gaping hole on the front of the house … (sorry neighbors) … the French doors out to the deck are installed. We still need to finish up with some trim, paint and stain, but it’s looking sweet!

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Tiling the Master Bath Shower

The master shower is turning out AWESOME! We picked a subway shaped porcelain tile, in a travertine-like finish. It comes from the same line as the bathroom floor. We picked a colorful mosaic for an accent too. The mosaic will look richer after the color enhancer sealer is applied.

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More finish work …

The hardwood floors are pretty much installed. The stairs turned out really great! Now it’s time to stain them and put on several coats of tung oil.

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The kitchen cabinets and granite are installed, the guy is there right now installing the backsplash to match the counters.

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The master bathroom is under construction, the tile floor has been installed (still waiting for grout). We decided on this diamond/checker pattern. I included a picture of the cabinet/vanity for the master … it’s not installed yet, but we got the idea for the tile floor pattern from this photo!

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Holy crap … it’s starting to look like a home!

The hardwood floors installation continues … but the big news is the kitchen! Our cabinets got installed, and now it’s really starting to look like somewhere we could live!

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More Paint

We got most of the downstairs painted and this week was time to move upstairs. We are carrying the Navajo White up the stairs and through the upper hallway. The master bedroom color is called Pinedale Shores … it’s a darkish-grayish sage color. Looks nice next to the mahogany of the register mantle thingy. The two spare bedrooms got Bleached Denim (blue) and Castle Path (brownish/tan). All trim will be Palatial White.

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Hardwood floors are going in right now!!! Will have an update with pics soon!

Paint

Drywall is done, and we’ve moved on to priming and painting. We should really rent a sprayer, but we don’t have a sink here to wash it out in. We’ve been using rollers and brushes. It kind of sucks, but it’s kind of fun because the floors aren’t in yet so we can be as messy as we want. Mike and I painted most of the downstairs already. We picked a couple of Behr colors: Palatial White for ceilings and trim, Navajo White for most downstairs walls, and Soft Denim for the kitchen/sunroom. Our kitchen cabinets are painted off white-ish, with a brown glaze. I think it’s called Vanilla Bean finish. The cabinets are Merillat, which is the same thing as Kraftmaid at Home Depot. The idea is for the cabinet color to fall in the same family as the Navajo White and Palatial White.

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HARDWOOD FLOOR DELIVERY

We painted most of the downstairs to prepare for the flooring delivery today. We ordered the wide plank floors in a heart pine. The widths of the planks vary from 4″ to 8″. Some of the boards are as long as 16 feet! We had to stack the floors a special way, with lathe strips in between all the boards. This helps air circulate through the boards while they acclimate to the house for a week. The floors will be stained a dark red color … which is similar to some wood that was in the house originally. The stain color is called Autumn Leaf, if you look hard at the first photo in the Paint section above (click to view large image) you can see the floor stain sample in the middle at the bottom.

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More Drywall Photos

Here are a bunch more photos of the drywall when it was first hung. The walls that still look brown and blotchy are exterior plaster walls. We didn’t tear the plaster down from these walls, because it was adhering to brick. We were afraid of opening a can of worms by tearing that down. The drywall guys are going to skim coat those walls with mud when they mud the new drywall. We passed the drywall inspection, so mudding and taping has begun today!

DOWNSTAIRS
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MASTER BEDROOM/BATHROOM
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OTHER UPSTAIRS ROOMS/HALL
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Drywall

Drywall has finally started! It took a while to get that squared away, but now it’s cruisin’. Should be mostly ready for the first drywall (screw) inspection by Friday. Our floors and cabinets have arrived, but until the drywall is done, none of that can be installed. The floor is first, and it has to acclimate for a week in the house first. The floors are going to be wonderful - the fine people at Carlisle Wide Plank floors hooked us up! We got the wide plank heart pine floors. We are using a stain called Autumn Leaf, which is a pretty close match to some hardwoods already in the house (in the front office room).

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More Front Porch

Here are a few more pics of the front porch masonry. Still not totally done (the brick columns need to be finished), but getting there!

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Master bedroom insulation turned out to be harder than we thought. We ended up hiring Big Al’s Insulation to come and blow it. Took them one day, where it probably would’ve taken us several. That stuff is nasty, too, so glad someone else had to deal with it.

Drywall is next, I PROMISE this time