Congrats on having such thick skin. Good luck to them finding contractors again. So unreasonable.
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Looks nice. Very sorry for the hassles.
coralbrook - beautiful results! Kudos!
Beautiful work! Had to laugh at the wallpaper bathroom picture. It looks like a collage of three different rooms together - one with the beautifully designed shower, one with the wallpaper and upper cabinet, and one with the vanity and floor. Not!cohesive. At least the tile color doesn’t clash with the wallpaper flowers.
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Beautiful! They obviously don’t know how lucky they were to have you take on this challenging job. Your work is remarkable, as is your ability to keep your cool in the face of their lack of appreciation.
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I’m in the middle of a little 2 week refresh and new bathroom for a little rental house in Pt Loma for a neighbor. We managed to tear out a small bathroom, close up old window and install new window, paint interior, paint half the exterior, change door knobs and handles, etc in only 2 weeks!! It took some long days and weekends, but they had Open Houses scheduled for potential renters today.
I just cannot believe how much they are charging for a very small 2 bedroom / 1 bath about 900 sq ft. This house is on an intersection of two very busy roads. No parking in front or on the side. Any guests or extra cars have to park a block and a half away. Small 1 car garage and room for 2 cars in the driveway. It is really hard to even pull into or out of the driveway and very noisy. Kitchen is small and really old, she’s calling it ‘vintage’.
$2,950!!
Starting sometime soon is going to be a big yucky project. My agent and a partner purchased a triplex in a lower income neighborhood as a rental investment. The house is in Paradise Hills area for those that know San Diego. The house is on a slope over a canyon and the prior owners chopped up the basement and garage under the house into two rental units. This is not permitted so we h ave to go in and completely renovate with egress windows, etc to get it legal and permitted into a triplex.
The house is suffering from crappy homeowner DIY everywhere and needs to be renovated, but on a shoestring. I’m thinking this is going to take about 2 months, unless we run into major foundation or structural work. Foundation guy and structural engineer are evaluating and coming up with requirements.
Never good when the project is being described as “big yucky.” Good luck!
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Looking forward to following the next project!
I already know this will be a challenge!
Paradise Hills, (lock everything up-especially copper-based wiring/tools)
on a slope,
over a canyon,
with non permitted fix-its, and shoddy work will have its own interesting fixes.
You’ve proven that you are patient and can work miracles out of everything.
Two months from now, we’ll be praising your efforts! Good luck!!
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@coralbrook, you are just so patient and have done such amazing work! Congrats on another amazing project!
The old wallpaper in that bathroom is Just.Plain.Stupid.
Feel free to tell them I said so.
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VeryHappy - I get the preservation of vintage components of a house. But…preserving wall paper in a bathroom? I’m not really that picky but, just…ew! lol
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That wallpaper isn’t anything worth saving. But @coralbrook did a great job of trying to tie in somehow by using a blue tile. My gut feeling….this crappy wallpaper is not going to last long!
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I’m not a germaphobe but geez… after so many years in a bathroom, that wallpaper is like a Petri dish crawling with all sorts of microorganisms. Yuck!!!
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Wasn’t that the disintegrating wallpaper?
I imagine that the moisture involved, after showers, in a dry older bathroom, is going to slowly make that wall disappear. Of course it will be Coralbrook’s fault because she didn’t plan for the disintegration.
The wallpaper is completely disintegrating. You touch it and it crumbles. That is why the mirror is so large and the bead board is there. All to cover up issues with the wallpaper
The poor guys put some blue tape on it to mark a measurement and the wallpaper just peeled right off. She was not happy. The tile guy got a tool up against it and the color coat fell off of that area
Good god!!
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Two things about the wallpaper issue that are bizarre to me:
- It’s such a small area. Why bother keeping such a problematic thing when it barely shows?
- Even though it’s a very old-fashioned pattern, I’m sure that something almost like it exists today. Why not replace it with something new and non-problematic?
Oh well. Water under the bridge.
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