Making major progress and we're excited to see it all coming together, but I don't think we'll have a shortage of work anytime soon!
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| This is a picture of the center building right after we uncovered the left window to let the light in. The right window is still covered up and that green thing is an old bathroom (I think) that we've been using as a closet. This picture was taken on 3/22/14. |
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| Ta-dah! Window openings have been revealed and the bathroom removed! You can still see the same green paint on the walls. |
September 10-12th we had some great help from Marty, Mike and Matt Hackbarth. I need to get a picture of them one of these days to add to our blog! These guys saved me MONTHS of work!! Not only did the get all the lathe and plaster pulled off the front offices on the second floor, but they cleaned it all up, too!!! Now that I look at the pictures below, I'm not sure I know which office is which! Need to go look for "before" pics before I can post these to the blog. Be right back.
Okay, I'm back with before pictures!
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| Green room on 9/29/13. |
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| Green room on 9/12/14. |
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| This was the nicest kitchen in the whole building. Hopefully, someone will be able to use these cabinets in one of the offices. |
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| Kitchen no more! |
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| Sure glad I spent a day scrubbing that kitchen last October! Seemed like time well spent at the time! Where was the crystal ball when I needed it!!! |
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| This was the bathroom at the top of the stairs. There was another bathroom behind it that belonged to another apartment. |
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| Same shot of the bathroom, but the wall in between has also been removed so now you can see the door where the other apartment would've accessed the second bathroom. If that makes any sense. Sometimes it can be very tricky trying to describe what's going on! Can you see my shadow from the light coming through the poly-covered skylight? |
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| Picture of a closet in the front apartment of the alley building. This picture was taken before we bought the building, so about 3 years ago. |
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| Same closet behind Dale. This was the first apartment that we gutted a few weeks ago. |
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| There's the same closet. Only now you can see all the way through 3 apartments thanks to the Hackbarth men! |
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| So we're still in the same room. The pictures above were taken with me standing between these two rooms. The closet would be off to the right. By the way... I scrubbed that floor last fall, too. |
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| Here are those two rooms again, only this time I'm standing in front of the closet door. All that wood on the floor is the trim that has been removed. And the black stuff on the walls is glue from the lovely panelling that once hung in here. |
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| This is not the plaster dumpster I filled up a couple of weeks ago... that one is long gone. These are the two new dumpsters that Marty, Matt and Mike filled up. What a tedious process having to sort wood from plaster! These dumpsters are also now gone and new empty ones are awaiting us! |
Dale continues to work on the roof in preparation for the roof guys to come in and install a brand new one for us. The skylights came in this week, so hopefully in the next month, we'll have skylights and a new roof!
Now that the weather is getting cooler, we're also hoping to get the glass installed in the front windows. So some very noticeable things should start happening!!
