Lots of progress over at the Wee House, and lots of long days for me the last few weeks. I finished all of the interior painting and bathroom tile (floor and tub surround) last weekend, and am about halfway done laying the tile for the living room and kitchen. I’m hoping to finish that off tomorrow, so that we can get it grouted and get the kitchen cabinets installed, as well as the bath vanity and toilet.
That’ll just leave refinishing the hardwood floors in the existing bedroom, then exterior painting, as far as gigs I signed myself up to tackle. I’m a little bit beat at the moment, as I’ve been putting in 15 hour days since last Friday, but I have to say I’m pretty happy with how it’s all coming together.
This is the first project that I’ve pretty much designed from scratch myself, and I think it’s looking pretty good, especially considering the fairly limited budget. Nothing fancy at all, as it’s just a simple little rental property, but I feel like I got a lot of mileage for each dollar I spent. It definitely helped finding the exact shade of ceramic tile I wanted at Lowe’s on closeout for .58/sq. ft., and I was able to use a lot of material from past projects that I’d been storing for a rainy day.
Photos coming soon but it’s close enough to being finished that I decided to hold off a bit, plus the last thing I feel like doing when I’m trying to finish up a project is to stop and take time to snap assorted photos.
We’re still probably 10-14 days away from completely finishing up, as my contractor just got started on the addition yesterday, but the finish line is definitely in sight.
No more Crazy Larry sightings, so at least he seems to have gotten the message to steer clear of the property. As dumb as it sounds, I keep forgetting that I actually own the deed to the property next door. My contractor moved some leftover building materials over there (sheetrock and some lumber) to store it and get it out of the way, and I was like “Hunh, yeah, that’s actually a good idea, as we might as well put it to some use.”
I was also pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get liability coverage through our insurance on the abandoned Crazy Larry house, as our agent was able to extend $300,000 worth of liability coverage to that property, for a total added cost of $14/year. That’s just for liability and there’s no coverage for the structure itself, but I was surprised how painless and cheap it was, even for just liability coverage.
On a complete tangent, this just popped up for sale on Craigslist locally for $3,500. 1946 Chevy truck in running condition, new motor, carb, etc. Me. Want. Badly.
