House renovation, my bedroom

I didn't have this blog when I first started renovation of my grandparents house. When my grandfather past away he left the house and land to my uncle. My uncle contacted me asking if I would like to more in and pretty much take care of the place. The house needed a lot of work to make it livable and up think I spent eight months working on various things while still living at my previous resistance.

We started with my bedroom, it was the most obvious choice besides the gutted bathroom. We needed to insulated the walls, run new electrical wire. The walls were covered with 1"x8" center cut pine panels that were tongue and groove from floor to ceiling. Removing these required starting at one point in the room pulling each board off the wall and work our way around the room to where we wanted to stop.

Problem with pulling the boards down was many of them cracked as we worked the boards loose from their nails. We couldn't put these cracked boards back up and finding boards to match was impossible, they still make these boards color would be way off from the ones that are 50 years old.

Our solution to this was take the boards that were still good cut them down to fill the bottom part of the wall, we decided to wainscot on the three walls we had to remove. Leaving the one wall with the closet solid. For the top portion we did drywall, never have done drywall both me and my dad learned quickly what to do and not to do.

Paint, ceiling tiles, and trim work was completed. Furniture was moved in and we moved on to the bathroom. The floor was left bare for now will be doing carpet in the two bedrooms but I am waiting until I finish the floor in the hallway, sanding and refinishing the living room hallway and office. I don't want to lay down carpet and have to deal with the seam at the doorway and dust in the new carpet.