Cardington House Completed and Sold : Interior

Let's start with the front living room and entry way. Refinished hardwood floors highlight the updated look of this large room.


Walking through the living room, we enter the enlarged kitchen which opens up with lots of light to the rear sun room.




A pass-thru breakfast bar opens into the sun room.





The front bedroom also has new refinished hardwood floors.



The rear bedroom has views onto the rear of the property.



Between these two bedrooms is a new large hall closet and first floor laundry room.





This end of the house now has a newly remodeled hall bathroom.



At the end of this hallway is a french door leading up to a newly finished attic room.





From the kitchen a circular floor plan opens freely into the new family room (great room) with glass lite french doors and a decorative fireplace.









On the other end of the house is the master bedroom suite.



With newly remodeled master bathroom with separate tub and shower.











And, finally, is the office /den which is also within the master bedroom wing of the house.

Cardington House Completed and Sold : Exterior

After a long summer and alot of work, the project has reached conclusion and completion. Here are some photos of the exterior of the house before its successful sale in September 2007.



Rear Photos:









Please see next post for interior photos.

Cardington Warmer Weather

With the warmer weather I have been able to get some exterior work done. I installed most of the rear gutters, trimmed out the rear windows, and painted and roofed the rear corner roof.








The plumbing and duct work is complete.

Cardington Kitchen

The kitchen has begun to take shape a bit. Most of the cabinetry has been installed and the countertop was delivered today.

Cardington Drywall

Somewhere around 100 sheets of drywall have been delivered to the house so far.... and some are being put up now. Many of the walls in the house had to be demolished; partly for aesthetics and functional changes, but in the new Family Room and Master Suite, many of the walls suffered termite damage.

Attic drywall is nearly complete.



Living room drywall is about half installed.






As of the beginning of March, more and more drywall.... over 110 sheets already are on the walls.
Here is the attic as of today, March 21:



The hallway to the laundry room and bedrooms has also been drywalled now:





And the master bedroom has been drywalled; walls and ceiling. The one knotty pine wood panelled wall will remain:

Cardington: On to the rest of the house

I began framing in the walls for the new laundry room and hallway closet. Using the salvagable portion of the old hardwood flooring in the laundry room area, I was able to repair the damaged wood flooring in the new hallway to the rear bedroom. The hall closet will be just 7 ft high, leaving a shelf/ledge above it , which will give a more open sense to the hallway.





Bathroom: the tile backerboard for the bathroom floor was laid.



My friend, Jim helped me greatly in framing out the new openings into the new family room from the living room and from the enlarged kitchen.





He also helped me widen the kitchen pass-thru to the rear nook area.



The sunken master bathroom floor structure was framed-in.



And finally, the attic is currently being wired and a closet and stairway half-wall is being framed. Ceiling structure will soon be framed out to level the ceiling height in the attic space.