"What 21 year old is ever going to be living in that exact same spot in his career 30 years from now? " - Career? To me the son sounds like there’s a possibility that he is a guy that might intend to just stay there, let his parents finance his housing.
Often I’m not a fan of paining wood surface, but in this case I think it looks great.
Can I please have links to both remodels? I’ve lost them. Sounds amazing and you have much more patience than I ever had.
The ceiling looks SO much better with the white paint. The kid has no sense of taste and is so dang entitled.
The thing that seems really cool about this project is that the owner seems to appreciate the talents and competence of @coralbrook. Hopefully the kitchen renovation will be a low stress, fun project.
Finally done! Well, almost… still have to find special lightbulbs for the living room chandelier, fix some drawers installed wrong in laundry room and install baseboard in laundry room.
I loaded some pictures.
The living room chandelier is very low but I think they are going to arrange some furniture around it as a seating area. But for now it looks like the son has added disco balls and disco lighting and is using the living room as a dance area for parties, not to mention there is a tent set up in the living room for some reason!!! Someone is definitely going to hit their head on that light
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Total cost for laundry room and bathroom was $7,600 for tile work and installations, $2,000 for toilets, lighting, etc and about $3,500 for painting. There was a lot of paint work.
That laundry room could be rented out as a studio!
What kind of paint was used on the counters? My husband isn’t keen on replacing our bathroom counters, but I think he would let me paint them.
Laundry room looks terrific…
It’s beautiful!!!
Another gorgeous job, @coralbrook! Thanks for sharing the journey!
@coralbrook you aren’t done with this house, are you? Wasn’t the kitchen getting a redo? Did I miss that and the pictures that go with it?
Next project on this house is a big budget kitchen, then all new flooring and then master bathroom. I cannot start the kitchen until about June because it is a big job. So right now we are working through cabinet design and I need to get the cabinets ordered by about April 20.
So…only the ocean beach house for a while🤦🏻♀️
These are our two inspiration photos for kitchens that the owner selected. Of course, they do not embrace the adobe spanish architecture of the house!
And this is the starting point of the kitchen! I am designing around this gorgeous range
Don’t know why my Houzz links went away. I will try to imbed the photos of inspiration kitchens
That is going to be a fun kitchen project. Sounds like they have a bottomless pit of money and good taste!
That shower tile is so lovely, why not a clear shower door?
Is the countertop paint like what they sell for garage floors, where you cast the color beads over the wet surface?
I wonder if college son is charging admission for these parties?
That kitchen is going to be drool worthy!
I think the bathroom sinks are really colorful and interesting. The ones you bought are nicer than the one that was broken.
I think the new Mexican painted sinks are nicer than ones before also. And, there used to be cheap plasticky chrome/brass faucets and I think the black faucets are a nicer look
Yes, the countertop paint was a 3 step painting process. Step 1 was a primer, Step 2 was the color beads painted on with some thick goo (not thrown on like garage epoxy) but Step 2 made the counters really bumpy. So painters sanded down after Step 2. Then there was a thin urethane Step 3. All of the steps dried pretty fast between coats. Unfortunately the pictures showed kind of a nice blue and grey specks. After sanding they turned into black and brown specks!
The reason it’s not a clear shower door is because there was a brand new shower door on there and so we saved it. Clear shower door would make the teensy little room look bigger