Let's just let that sink in for minute.
We’re renovating a house in Pikesville, MD, in order to rent it out. Because, hey.. one house full of projects isn't enough! It hasn’t had many updates since being built in 1956ish, and we’re on an abbreviated time scale trying to get things done over there. The process of acquiring it and beginning demo has taken most of my free time of late, hence the lack of any new content, here.
I’ve got some early demo photos to share, though! Everybody loves demo.
Here we have the kitchen; early-demo. The cabinets are old-school metal ones. The floor has 3 layers, and I was incredibly nervous of floor-rot underneath it. It turned out to be in great shape, though.
And here is the pre and post-demo of the utility room. Our plans, here, are to update the electrical and plumbing, new walls, cabinets against the back wall, and something neat for the ceiling….
We’re removing these ceiling joists and building a new bump-out wall against the exterior of the original house. This will go all the way up, and tie the utility room addition to the exterior of the house to recoup the strength we’re losing by removing these ceiling joists. Then we’ll have a nice tall ceiling that will give this space some breathing room and make it feel bigger.
This is where the new bumped out wall will go.
And lastly, the partly-demo’d kitchen. A long way to go in these two rooms, but it is where the bulk of the work is happening for right now. Over the next couple of months I’ll be redoing the electrical and plumbing, walls, ceilings, cabinets, lights, sinks, appliances… this all feels so familiar!
