Renovating & Renewing

Since I began my residency as a hospital chaplain recently I have been very busy working very hard. However, someone close to me has been working harder: my wife.

Awaiting the fourth and final year of Pharmacy School, you'd think a worn out over-tested student of medications would do well to take some time off, relax and kick back. Not this little rosy Rapunzel of radical renovations. She has spent days and nights working on, fixing up, repairing, cleaning, painting, flooring, and all around improving various parts of her mother's house.

Let's start with the bathroom. There's no completely "before" picture. But the floor was unfinished, uneven concrete, and the sheet rock walls were unmudded and had a number of sizely holes in them. In March we began the lengthy process of mudding the many corners and seems.

After several layers of sheet rock mud she was ready to prime. Accompanied by a friend and fellow pharmacy student they went to work, and before I got home from work one day it looked quite different. (see below)

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves, but you'll see that from there they painted, replaced the shower doors with a tasteful curtain and painstakingly laid laminate flooring. Wow! Put all that together and you've got yourself a new room in the house increasing your property value!




(Happy mother-in-law on right.)

The basement of the house has for some time been mostly unfinished save one cluttered bedroom with an unfinished concrete floor. Again there's no "before" picture, but after a lot of de-cluttering, and some much needed area rugs the basement has become a cozy, 1 bed/1 bath suite with French doors. Not bad for a basement.


The next post will show the outside of the house.