Remodeling Yoga
Lou asked me a pertinent and interesting question, why did I post before pics of my door but not the after pics. Well that is because it looks the same as it did in the before. Now I am sure you are wondering why this is. Well, when you are remodeling an old house there is no such thing as a simple project. As soon as you drop a hammer into one wall you find out that you have to remodel four other rooms. The hallway project actually started out with the bathroom remodel. The wall next to the stairs use to look like this. So there are actually before before pictures. When we moved in we had to wall up that doorway so when you walked into the house you weren’t looking at our toilet. Then that necessitated a remodel of the entryway (of course the bad paint and bad wallpaper also cried out for such work), but this just shows how if you touch one room in an old house you inevitably touch another.
So why does the doorway look the same, well, our house is mainly [tag]knob and tube[/tag] wiring. For those of you who don’t know what that is, that is really old wiring that often likes to spontaneously set your house on fire because there is no ground. So among all of our other projects there is the constant background project of replacing all our [tag]wiring[/tag]. This wall has a light switch that needs such work. That light switch is connected to the light for the [tag]foyer[/tag], which also needs such modernizing. Because I did not want to have to replaster, repaint and replace the trim…again…I decided to leave that wall as it stood and finish that part when the wiring is done (which will hopefully be soon).
So to just finish that wall, we need to rewire the light switch, rewire the light in the foyer and on the porch, which these are connected to the rewiring taking place in the upstairs bathroom which has to be separated from the wiring in the attic. Then there is also the big question, do i finish that wall before we replace the front door? or should I wait until after…hmmm. I am thinking before and I can just repaint when needed.
This is part of what makes living and working on an old house so interesting. Nothing is simple. The only thing that is straight forward is that you have to be flexible. So I practice my [tag]yoga[/tag] with a hammer in one hand and a nail gun in the other and I try for downward facing dog while ripping apart plaster. Ah, the joys of an old house.
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