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pin it!My small house is on a very large lot that is only 25 feet wide but almost 200 feet long. The lot is flat, so all the land is 100% usable for pretty much whatever I want — a veggie garden, a pool, an art studio… so many possibilities
A few months ago I was demolishing my old dining room fireplace mantel, and I found this wedged in the baseboard I wanted to find something more appropriate for the age of the house since this living room/sitting room is the first thing you see when you walk into the house. The living room shares a wall with the dining room which also has a mantel. The old mantel was attached to a crappy wood hearth that was covering some damage on the floor, so I built a new hearth and installed some quarter round edging that matched the floor perfectly.
And let’s not forget the saddest little corner of the house — this janky divider wall and adjacent cubby made entirely of scrap wood. In the end I decided to re-build the wall with way more support, then install a 12″ wide kitchen cabinet from Lowes and build custom shelving above it to fully utilize the small space. It’s safe to say that this turned into a complete bathroom overhaul, but because it’s a rental, I still wanted to keep my budget within reason. The old bathroom floor was 70s gray linoleum tiles, but they were in perfect condition, so I just laid the new hexagon flooring over it.
In theory, my plan was simple: -Install new (faux) beadboard and bring it up higher so it reached the bottom of the cabinets -Replace the metal cabinets, clean up the existing wood cabinets, and repaint everything to match -Switch out all hardware and add bronze accents throughout Oh, but it’s NEVER that simple, is it? ! Once I ripped those off, I discovered that there was already original, authentic 3/4″ thick beadboard on the original walls of the house, but not on the walls that were added later. Even though this little door was leading to basically a closet, it was located right next to the doorway to the dining room which had pretty original trim on it. Since the kitchen was the first room that was (mostly) finished, I spent the most time in there of any room in the house and became really attached to it.