Renovations Are Like Cosplay For Your House... Right?
I have been seriously side tracked from building props and costumes for the last few years. There are many reasons for this, and one of the biggest is being a new home owner. For the last year most of my free time has gone in to transforming the main floor of our home into something fresh and fun. Very early in the process we decided that we were going to do as much of the work as we could do, on our own. So I got to use some old building skills, as well as learn a whole lot of new ones! The existing kitchen and bathroom on the main floor were functional, but very dated. I am pretty sure that kitchen was all original. The bathroom was old, but we found some evidence that there had been at least one renovation in the past. For both of these rooms we decided to gut them, and start from scratch. The photos below show the original rooms. The kitchen is small, and it felt very claustrophobic from the layout. There also was not a lot of work space. The bathroom also felt