It’s been so long since I’ve shown you any living room pictures, I’m sure you’ve all continued to picture that the room looked like this…
Thankfully, we’ve made a LOT of progress since then. And by we’ve…I mean Matt and the boys. I’ve really only been able to be the side line cheerleader throughout this project. My asthma doesn’t allow me to help with a project that includes THIS much dust. Matt’s dad helped with the first two weeks of this project and helped us get much of the work done.
So let’s review a little bit shall we? First, Matt and his dad began to break down the walls and tear down the 100(+) year old plaster.
Once all the plaster was off (and completely covered the floor in a big mess), they began to tear off the lathe. We saved it for kindling – yay!
Would you look at that? Nothing between the lathe and the outside wall. THIS is why we’ve been so cold each winter!
Once they had the walls prepped, the boys and I vacated the house. Matt and his dad put on protective gear and they sprayed in foam insulation from SprayFoamDirect.
Oh look, green foam. That’s a whole lot better than cold air in the walls, wouldn’t you say?
But what’s even better is that now a little clean up is starting to happen. Check it out, there are floors under there…
My father in law had to fly back home, but Matt was able to get drywall up within the next few days. This is getting exciting isn’t it? Now look…we have walls!
Better yet…our living room is clean and put back in order!!
Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Now here’s the deal. The drywall hasn’t been mudded or sanded or painted yet. The trim work is still not back up. There is still a lot of work to be done as we completely finish the living room. BUT…we ended up with some leftover spray foam…and if you don’t use it within thirty days, it loses it’s pressure. We are NOT going to waste that spray foam. Therefore…we begin project number two…
Our bedroom.
So, life continues to be a bit…dusty. Matt and I have moved into one of the guestrooms. I usually can not find my slippers.
But I am so thankful for my husband’s hard work and I am SO thankful that we are going to be warm.
One room at a time.
Are they still doing the $15 store credit? I signed up a few weeks back after reading your post about the credit. I was the one that left the comment that I didn’t get the $15 credit. I went back and checked my email and my account online. I have even sent them 2 emails and have received no response :-( I don’t know what else to do! If they were still doing the credit I would just sign up under a different email since I still haven’t made a purchase with them yet.
You know, I don’t think they are anymore. Not sure why they discontinued that program, but when I checked just now, it didn’t look like they were giving a credit to new customers. :(
Beautiful home Laura! Now you will all be warmer this winter!!!
Wow! It looks amazing! They did such a great job! I love watching transformations, so exciting. We’re hoping to buy an old farm house with some acreage in the future… so your work has inspired me!
I’m so happy for you, Laura. We lived in a century farmhouse for almost 4 years. We weren’t there long enough to fix it up, but I can sure sympathize with cold winters. We even went so far as to close off half of our house and live in only two bedrooms, kitchen and dining room to save money on heating costs and try to maximize where the heat went. This with six children! It was a good experience for us, though, and we really appreciate our warm town house now. :)
Wow… the last pic it looks like it’s already painted! I looked at the molding.. it looks like a different color than the drywall.
What color are you going to paint the living room? Your wood floor look beautiful, btw!
That looks like a perfect living room for a Christmas tree!!
Your living room is going to be gorgeous! I love those windows!
LOOKS GREAT! I’m excited for you and your family. How exciting to redecorate. LOTS of hard work but well worth it.
love you.
Lisa
What an exciting project! We have the spray foam in our house as insulation, and it is wonderful stuff! We just put some in our barn as well. (We live in Interior Alaska, where 30 below zero is not an unusual winter temp. In winter the temp usually stays between 10 above and 20 below with dips into 30 below, 40 below, and even 50-60 below for a few days at a time. Our goats have to have a very warm space!)
Yay, it looks great!!! I’m happy for you!
WOW…..what an amazing difference. Leprosy room to beautiful room! But geesh….what in the world were the builders thinking to have NO insulation? Our house was built in 1903 so I do know about cold older homes, but still….We noticed a major difference when we replaced all the windows 15 years ago. Think of all the money you’ll save this winter. YAY Matt!
I completely understand about the being warm part!
We live in a 109 year old Victorian — the third floor is off-limits too many months out of the year. ;) We are slowly working on getting one of the rooms put back together after hubs ripped it apart to put in foam insulation.
Otherwise, random parts of our house still have original wavy-glass windows. Not the warmest things ever!!!
Hi, that’s a beautiful room! How did you contain the lead paint or was there none when you tore it all apart?
I will have to check out your foam source, we need it in our basement and attic!
Thanks for sharing and the great pictures.
Hope you all are loving the new light space!
Mary
I was wondering if you used closed cell or open cell foam. I know ther is quite the price difference between the two.