Stage 2 – Re-Modeling. Last Push Effort For Our Buyers Benefit
This is when we had to complete many of the re-modeling projects that we had considered over the past years.
Despite the seemingly never-ending remodeling of our house (that started with furnace and AC which quit while we were moving in), there were some key elements that we felt had to be done before we put our home on the market.
Both upstairs bathrooms were mostly the same as when the house was built in the sixties (matching pastel pink and blue were popular apparently). The front door was original as well, and it had been modified by a previous owner by hacking off inches from the bottom to allow for a hardwood floor. And there was a ‘bedroom’ in the basement that we never quite fully finished.
December 2018 / January 2019
We had replaced both commodes for white ones, but one bath was pastel blue, and the other some kind of pink. Since both baths were cast iron, replacing them would be a major task. We opted instead to use white epoxy bathtub paint.
The bathtub paint was in fact pretty easy to apply; the hard part was the required preparation.
Both bathrooms had the original matching wall tile, which we had painted years ago, but still looked bad. We removed all of the tile next to the baths and applied bathtub surround kits. Naturally we also had to rework the plumbing and install new shower heads and faucets.
Note the original wall tiling and built in roll holder.
I built the lighted cabinets at the last minute.
The other important change we made was to replace the front doors. We had for years put up with them being drafty, not closing properly, and generally looking dated and awful.
New Front Doors
I bought two unfinished doors from a local hardware store along with hinges and furniture. Making this change was a bit annoying because only had a couple of weeks to enjoy and have the use of the doors, which sounds a bit petty, but it was one of those things that we wish we had done years ago.
