How many times can you remodel a room? Well, we’ve remodeled our kitchen twice. Once as an inexpensive “tie us over” until we have money remodel, and one serious reconfiguration and total renovation when said money was available. Our children’s rooms were given touch ups and treatments several times over the years, and now since we are empty nesters, they have become our grandson’s room and the “exercise room”. So they have been overhauled more permanently. The bathroom the kids shared while growing up in our home experienced a makeover in which we pretty much let them choose the colors and type of flooring. We added wainscot to the walls for durability and aesthetics and it came out quite nicely and has lasted for about 6 years until our youngest started his second year of college. This remodel was filled with experiments. Our first attempt at laying a decent laminate flooring, adding wainscoting, tearing those dreaded wall strips out and covering with paintable, blemish-reducing wallpaper, adding a real light fixture over the sink that was a bit heavier than cheapo manufactured housing walls can endure. Not everything went as smoothly as we would have liked, but we think this project … Continue reading
January 1, 2013
by mymobilehome
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