Getting Ready to Remodel
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And, we’re off..
I went by Home Depot yesterday. I have so many ideas about how to upgrade this house and I’m just absolutely itching to get started. I decided to begin in the main bath, so yesterday was mostly a trip to look into the approximate cost for a customer cut piece of marble with a built-in sink for the vanity. I cannot really replace the vanity, because the tiling on the wall is in such good shape and it goes right up to the current vanity. To replace the vanity would mean retiling the entire bathroom and that just doesn’t need done. So, I am going to refinish the vanity to make it look distressed, sort of Shabby Chic. The, we will drop the new counter and sink back onto it with some new plumbing and hardware. I’ll get some antique glass knobs and I really think the bathroom will be all but transformed. It will just be a matter of some new cabinets and perhaps a more decorative mirror.
There are a few other small fixes I can have done here at the beginning: a new garage door, a whole-house air-filtration system, and some new window treatments in most rooms.
I don’t really want to turn to outside funding to do the work, but my plans also include adding a porch to the front of the house, new windows, and eventually redesigning the entire kitchen. I want to move the layout around and make more room to work. Several of our neighbors have gone the way of remortgages to fund their own remodeling. There are a number of cheap mortgages out there right now, so if it comes down to that point, I think I can find a broker with good fixed rate mortgages.
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