The Renovation Of A Building Into A Homa Should Be Interesting

Looking back at the pictures it is hard to believe that we did all this work - but we are only half done.

Thought it might be fun to look back at the pictures of not only what we started with but also the people who had the building before us faced. Proof that you can bring a building back. We know they put in the new windows and a new roof.  They also installed a heat and air system by expanding one of the bathrooms but the unit seemed to be an assortment of different brands and parts - sort of patched together. They never did anything to the back hall and it was in bad condition.

Their renovation was to turn the main room into three tanning rooms. They were built in the middle of the floor due to the windows.  The two exterior walls with the windows did get sheet rock as well as the ceiling. The sheet  rock was the only part of the renovation that we did not tear out.

I took black and white pictures of the upstairs before we moved in. I always wish in the end that I had taken more, maybe ones in color but they are rather stunning.

After three and a half years we got to move in upstairs.  Don't know if it will be noticeable but we have realized that the television and the bed are the only new things we have.  One would think that a designer who spent thirty-five years doing houses in Nichols Hills, Quail Springs, Edmond, etc. in Oklahoma City and Highland Park, Frisco and Prestonwood in Dallas would be a little more like Architectural Digest. Nope. What Marshell and I discovered is that it feels really good to be surrounded by things you love, that have special meaning and things you have done yourself. So we are stuck with old furniture I have recovered or refinished and really neat things that friends thought would look cool in our place.  Doesn't everyone need a black and white TV that works? or a Bernina treadle sewing machine with the instructions in Swiss? or a race car injector system?

Quite a change from the way it started out. But we were only half done at this point. The downstairs was next on the list.  What was it really going to be like to have a "real" kitchen?
Tune in next week for that project.  What seemed to be a really simple project after all we had done upstairs had a few surprises for us.