The Master Bed/Bath remodel begins.
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As you can see from the pictures to the left, the future master bath has been stripped to the studs. The top picture is taken from the bedroom into the new bath. The next picture is from the new bath into the bedroom. We are on our way! Our contractor is John Mueller, who is better known as a local La Grande artist. You can see his work and learn more about him at his web site. He does his art work out of Way Point Studio. Fortunately for us, his day job is working as a general contractor doing home remodeling and construction. We went through a lot of contractors before we found one who appreciated our vision of what we wanted the house to become. We are very fortunate to have found John. The bottom picture to the left is huge wasp's nest John found when he pulled down the ceiling. Fortunately it was an old, mostly abandoned nest, and the remaining wasps were sluggish from the cold weather, so it wasn't terribly nasty. As you can see, the nest is huge. It entirely filled in between two rafters. It was most impressive. We added sealing off the holes to the outside where the wasps got in to our to-do list. We've had enough of those critters. So that's where things stand with our mid-century home remodel project. Stay tuned for further details. |
April 13th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Hey Anne and Gary, we have been checking your site regularly for a while. We live in Bend, OR and actually almost bought a home in Baker City about two years ago. We have our own restoration project in the works so check out our blog. We are most interested in following the progress of your bathroom renovation as we plan to do the same this summer, all the way to the studs. Keep in touch!
April 13th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Loren & Amber,
The dry wall on our bedroom and bath should be up within the next week. Then we will be ready to begin painting. After the walls and ceiling are painted the cabinetry goes in.
We were really excited to see the pictures of your cabinets in your blog. Our intentions are to have the cabinetry in both the kitchen and new bath built to match the era of our house. That means painted cabinets just like yours.
There seem to be a lot of people who like the Ikea look, and are not as keen on the simple beauty of painted wood. Seeing how your cabinets turned out has inspired us. We are more confident than ever we have made the right decision in going with traditional painted wood.
We have put a link to your blog (http://bungalowranch.blogspot.com) on the Related Sites menu on this web site. We hope it encourages people to check out your project.
Anne & Gary
September 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Wow that wasp nest is pretty nasty/impressive. Good thing you guys finally caught that. Look forward to see what the final remodeling looks like.
January 5th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Wow that is a giant wasp nest. I have never seen one that big in real life.