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Lakehouse Bathroom Reno
While renovating our lakehouse, we decided to tackle the bathroom. For this blog, I will only go into the shower project because it was quite a bit of work with many steps. In the pic below, you can see the 70’s style plastic shower enclosure. This room always had a funky smell no matter what we did, when we ripped this out we finally found out why. There was stagnant water behind and inside of the hollow shower enclosure. It was a huge relief to get that ripped out! Step 1 We started by removing the walls and then the shower itself. Step 2 Allign drain to…
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Kitchen Backsplash
On my trip home to see my parents this summer, I offered to install backsplash for my mom’s kitchen. This project is a perfect example of a room transformation on a small budget and in just two days. My parents’ house is a beautiful 100 year old home that they have put a lot of work into over the years. In the kitchen, there wasn’t any backsplash which makes cleaning and keeping a stain free wall quite tough. Here are the before pics: As you can see, the kitchen was pretty much a blank canvas with regards to choosing an accent feature. The counters and walls are a similar…
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Adding a Mudroom
Here is the front view of the recently renovated exterior, which I’ve blogged about in Lakehouse Exterior post. In this post, I will show what we did to the inside. Before we added our mudroom, I had no idea how much it would add to our home. From the exterior, it added curb appeal and character to the house and inside it added a laundry area, bench with storage, additional storage and a way we could open up the kitchen area by sinking the refrigerator into part of the mudroom. Here you can see the outside wall of the old house, which we removed the old siding and insulation. Then…
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Lakehouse Exterior (con’t) and Outdoor Kitchen
Original House Our exterior renovation of our lake house was a big job to put it mildly. I covered in my last post: addition/reno of the front of the house. A few years back we had replaced several of the windows. This made a big difference in heating and air conditiong, so we are very excited to see how efficient our “new” house is this summer when it’s 110+ degrees in Texas. To start, we extended the patio the length of the house. Making and installing the forms ourself using old 2×4’s and stakes then adding metal rebar for stability. Make sure the ground is packed well prior…
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Lake House Make Over – Front Exterior
After renovating the inside of our old lake house, it was time to tackle the exterior. The house was a boring rectangular box that needed new siding, windows, as well as, a new roof. Storage was a problem, and we had no laundry room. My husband and I decided to go all in and add a mudroom and a large covered patio. Next year we hope to add two more bedrooms and another bathroom, but that will be considered Phase 2. This house is about 2 1/2 hours from our main house, so we had to pay close attention to timeline, availability and weather. Step 1 – Foundation…
