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Grand Inquisitor Kegkilla_sl said:

your parents have shit taste in decorating, gtfo

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I mean this as a sincere question: Are you retarded or something?

Some projects I worked on last summer. Took me mostly 2 weeks or so.

Removed 25 year old carpet, dewallpapered the walls, sanded the floors, refinished them etc. The coloring looks off because the floors are still drying. Took 3 days to dry due to it being July and humidity being like a million.



Did the same with the stairs. Was a real bitch with the rug, but the trim work I did made them look fantastic in the end.


Had some damage in my office. Had to clean up the mold and re-drywall the place. The biggest bitch was the previous owner cut a giant whole in the wall to the left of wear I'm standing so they could fit in a 35" old school tube TV. Had to patch the shit out of that.

The last two is our family room. If you look at the 2nd image, the bottom half of the wall was all wood paneling that had to be ripped out. Then if you look behind the couch you see a white panted area, that's the height of the wood panelling. That white area also had to be ripped down and drywalled (was shit wood too). Redid the crown molding underneath the ledge as well. Every inch of the walls had wallpaper on them. In every room. Fuck it was hell.

Nice floor, man! I love darker coloured floors.

Floating vinyl floor install. Pretty easy minus the retarded floor currently down

Ya I actually like the look of it so I'm going to keep it. Bathrooms are going be uber tough to update and keep the southern old style interior

Nice laminate. Excellent choice!

When I ripped down the wood paneling in my basement, it left the walls butchered because the psychopaths who owned before me both nailed AND glued the shit down. I tried skim coating it, but the websites that said it was best left to professionals were right. It does not look professional. The room is my kids' playroom so it is ok, the walls are bound to get some abuse anyway. But eventually it will have to be fixed. From a distance you can't see it, but up close you can see the glue marks, even through a couple of layers of joint compound and paint. The joint compound was making the paper bubble on the wall, it was a mess. Once it dried it looked acceptable, for now anyway.

TL;DR, fuck the people who owned my house before me.

When it comes down to it I'll probably just rip down the drywall and redo it. I have a sneaking suspicion that there is no insulation in the basement walls, or very little, and I want to expand the bathroom down there and put in a shower.

So I bought a foreclosure years back.. I pretty much had to redo the entire upstairs and I still haven't stepped foot in the unfinished basement. The demolition of my bathroom may of been the worst thing I've ever done. For any of you who have dealt with Plaster, cement and chicken wire all together plus a tile floor and bathtub from the 50's. I actually had to rent a chipping tool to get the cement off the cinder blocks so the toilet would fit properly after we replaced the wall. Lucky for me I have some friends who helped me out. It took me months of 10 hour days after work to get the house in a livable condition. The rest of the house was covered in really bad wallpaper(skim coated over) and the kitchen appeared to be a project they started but didn't finish. They had new bottom cabinets in but no top cabinets, appliances, the walls were a mess, old window, etc.. It took me some time just to find what brand made the cabinets so I could match up the tops. I considered just replacing it all but they were brand new and I wanted to save some money since everything else pretty much was unusable. I wish I had my original photos of the before look but I can't seem to find them:-( Here are some updated shots tho.

Picasso_sl said:

I've considered those ceramic Wood planks. How do you like them? I fully feel your pain on the 50s cement walls. I probably took 2000 pounds of wall shit out of a 5x5 bathroom

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I love them and I get a ton of compliments on them. They are pricey tho. At least when I did it they were. If you do it just know you need a special blade for your wet saw that cuts porcelain tile. They also sell a chocolate grout that I used instead of a typical white. I wanted people to think they were real hardwoods. some people do heh.

My basement has a ceiling with plaster and chicken wire. I started ripping it down but holy shit I can't get up the motivation to see it through. I'm at the hard parts where it meets the wall. I need to find a good cutting tool as I plan to build out off the original wall anyway and put up a new wall.

ToeMissile_sl said:

Love the wood in the living room, I'm assuming it's original?

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yep. whole upstairs has it. I had someone come in and refinish it since it was left in poor condition. That wasnt a job I wanted to tackle on my own lol

Picasso_sl said:

I think with my corner chicken wire i'd just hook on with a crow bar hook and it usually pulled it out for a while.

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Been trying that. the chicken wire just breaks apart on me. Really beating my ass lol.

Convo_sl said:

I love them and I get a ton of compliments on them. They are pricey tho. At least when I did it they were. If you do it just know you need a special blade for your wet saw that cuts porcelain tile. They also sell a chocolate grout that I used instead of a typical white. I wanted people to think they were real hardwoods. some people do heh.

My basement has a ceiling with plaster and chicken wire. I started ripping it down but holy shit I can't get up the motivation to see it through. I'm at the hard parts where it meets the wall. I need to find a good cutting tool as I plan to build out off the original wall anyway and put up a new wall.

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Try banging the whole ceiling with a large hammer. Get the plaster busted up into bits, and then pulling the chicken wire should do the trick.