My Home Rehab - Updates 9/14/2007

Sep 14, 2007

I went back to my house this afternoon for a walk-through on the electrical, a/c, & framing. The plumbing is 100% done & good (knock on wood.) Everything is coming together fantastically, and we had our 3rd dumpster dropped off, so the job site was very clean. I’ve added in some extra work – can lights, some tiling we weren’t going to do, and a more expensive treatment on the wire railing – and we’re still within budget. We’re also ahead of schedule. I don’t want to get too excited, but it seems like everything is working out extremely well. Collins – my GC – is to thank for everything. He’s been awesome. Here’s his contact info if you’re in Austin, and you need some work:

Collins Johnson – 512.563.4105

Anyways – on to the pictures. Unfortunately, my flash still wasn’t working when I went over there. I fixed it as soon as I got back to the office – it was as simple as resetting the settings. Go figure.

This is the same picture of the living room that I take every time I walk in. As you can see, the job site is much cleaner.

This is the old closet converting to a half-bath. They’ve framed in the storage & moved the door over about 12″ so that you don’t open the door & see a sink. This 1/2 bath makes the living room much more functional.

Here is more master bathroom work. It’s going to be really tough to see how big this is until the framing is up – also, I’ll need to look and find some pics of the old BR so that everyone can see how small it was before.

Here is a really bad picture of the new stairwell. Now that I have my camera fixed, I’ll take more pics of it with the flash the next time I’m over there.

Alright – the two pictures above are what we’re really psyched about. This is a huge master closet that goes all the way to the ceiling & creates a utility closet in the loft for printer/fax/wireless, etc… The old master was HUGE but the new one is BIG & FUNCTIONAL.

As you can see, “functional” is really a big theme with this project. We’re basically taking a 3000s.f. 1970’s mod-house that’s designed with nothing in mind but “party” & turning it into a really cool mod-house that’s still good for entertaining, but much more functional – oh, and updated.

Between now & next Wednesday, we’ll have the railing & the drywall up! I’ll send pics of the drywall when it’s up!