The constuction begins

Finally getting around to posting on my condo rehab project.  Here are some good before photos.  Well I have done a little here and there....but nothing substantial.

The master bedroom - already fixed and painted the bow windows and hung some roman shades on the three windows.  Had to get custom shades from Smith + Noble because the windows were unusual sizes.

The traumatized pooch

The awesome ceiling in the master bedroom...

My pink bathroom with no storage

Whoever thought dropped ceilings in residential bathrooms was a good idea should be buried alive under a big pile of wet foam ceiling tiles

The hall looking towards the second bedroom -  dirty, horrible paint job, industrial electrical panel (which only supplies 30 amps) and to top it off, the intake vent for the heating system right smack in the middle of the floor.  (I will tell you more about the heating system later).

The living room - the roof is getting fixed and in the process we are putting in an access hatch/skylight in my living room, since the building had no access to the roof other than climbing out the small window in my bedroom and scaling the side of the building.  Also note that prior owners left the spot for a wood burning stove...but no stove, oh yes, and they stuffed the hole with newspaper :)

Last but not least, the kitchen - I already pulled up one layer of linoleum when I first moved in because the previous renters had a cat who had left his mark.  I covered the sub floor (which is on top of another layer of linoleum) with rubber industrial floor mats from Home Depot.  I also already tore out some cabinets and covered everything in primer, mostly to get rid of the O de cat.  First major purchase for condo was the stove pictured.  When I moved in the original from 1962 was still here.  Amazingly it worked fine, but since it had a pilot light that burned all the time (no electric ignition) it scared me a tiny bit, so I bought a new one pretty soon after moving in.  I must say it doesn't look half bad in these photos.  I should try to find the true "before" photos I took earlier.