There are three main projects I'd like to work on while you're here (ready?):
PROJECT I
THE BATHROOM
As you can see, there is no sink and the floor is busted up. The copper pipes and drain pipe have "non-standard" placement - they aren't spaced nicely for a pedestal sink and are awkwardly poking through the wall and floor.
The floor (right now) is just the basic fir subfloor, painted over (with holes).
We bought a bathroom sink and cabinet after spending five hours in IKEA. The cabinet will fit flush to the wall or centered with the plumbing. It's a larger sink with less countertop than our current set up, but it should look nice.
Yes, the cabinet has legs, but they should be low enough that we don't actually look at the copper pipes (like we do now).
For the Floor? Janet wants to put tile down. We haven't decided what kind yet, but you can rest assured there WILL BE GROUT. We're going to pick that up after our respective night classes are over in a couple weeks. There are places in the fir strips that are uneven. We may have to extract a couple of them before we lay down a piece of 1/4-inch or 1/8-inch ply to make the surface even before tiling.
The small area around the toilet currently has linoleum in place. It functions well, but Janet and I are considering tiling that area as well (about 3 square feet at most).
PROJECT II
THE KITCHEN
There's really just the one thing to do in the kitchen, but it could turn out to be a doozy.
Ain't she pretty?!?
Our hunting trip to IKEA landed us a ginormous kitchen sink. It's so ginormous that my back is still sore from lifting from car to house. We just have to put it in.
Of course, like everything in this blasted house, there's a hitch (a couple, actually):
Potential Hitch 1: The plumbing on this sink is a nightmare. The footprint that the pipes take up isn't as bad as I first calculated, so we should be able to cut the cabinet without compromising the structural integrity of it too much.(I haven't gotten the cabinet for this sink because, well, there wasn't enough room in the car. This weekend.)
Potential Hitch 2: The new sink is a couple inches wider than the current sink. With the sink space squeezed in between the cabinet/counter and the washing machine, we're gonna have to move the cabinet to the left three inches. The upper half of the cabinet is screwed to the wall, and Janet sez that the toeplate/base (I don't know if you can see it) is floating underneath.
PROJECT III
THE WINDOW FRAME
This is all contingent on the weather. If it rains, we might be able to get it done, but it would be best if it were dry. In fact, I've been trying to get at it for the past two months, but it's been wet and windy this whole time.
As you can see, the framing around the window is F'ed up. The major windstorm we had earlier is to blame. Nothing like 80-mile-an-hour winds to pull weather-beaten wood away from the house.
We need to tear these pieces off, make new ones, stuff the cavity of the frame with insulation, prime the pieces, put 'em back up, and paint 'em. This window is one of the primary reasons the top floor of the house doesn't retain heat in the winter. The "cavity" I mentioned is where the old, long gone pulley weights for the sashes used to hang and counterbalance the window. Now that they're gone (we have newer windows), there's just an empty space that allows cold air to blast through the place.
Janet and I have tons more little things on the list, but I figured we start out with these. So whatdya say? Are you game?
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