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a bungalow transformation a bungalow transformation follow the martineaus as they renovate their folk victorian italianate bungalow with no real previous experience just a lot of determination saturday december 18 2010 holiday lights the house is adorned posted by the martineaus at 11 33 am 3 comments friday august 27 2010 our house was featured on apartment therapy chicago ok so we ve admittedly been houseblog slackers in the extreme our friend jenny wray freelances for apartmenttherapy com and wrote and took dozens of photos of our house check it out and write nice comments for her http www apartmenttherapy com chicago mary erics harrison west transformation house tour 125603 posted by the martineaus at 2 49 pm 2 comments wednesday march 3 2010 have bar will travel we have a most magnificent vintage bar that we acquired from my stylish and fabulous friend anne former proprietor of no lemmings allowed i m pretty sure that her handy husband sam made the kidney shaped top as he used to make custom tables in the same shape we held a joint garage sale when we were neighbors and when she didn t sell the bar she basically just let me have it it was stashed in the basement at the old house and has spent the last year in the entry room of the new house but our little basement project seemed tailor made to create a new home for the bar it fits ever so nicely in the back corner of the room i reupholstered the chairs to go with the decor and i have grand plans to decoupage the bar top with vintage travel images and luggage tags eric and i created the shelf in the background that houses our vintage and travel barwear i ll find a better pic that shows that off we even cleared out some cabinet space in the kitchen by bringing the booze bottles down and we re loving the ledge for storage eric saved the original back porch light in the renovation he repainted the casing rewired it with a light switch and mounted it to the rafter for more work light behind the bar it s awesome and i love it all of the ducts will eventually be painted with chalkboard paint so our visitors can graffiti the place up too posted by the martineaus at 10 06 pm 3 comments bar shelf and bar stools finished once the shelf was assembled i stained and polyurethaned it this photo gives a better look at the decorative trim i put on the shelf to fancy it up with eric s expertise we then put the shelf on the ledge a near perfect fit and stabilized it by attaching the whole thing to the beam in the ceiling in several places then for the fun part filling it up with our glassware collection next up was to recover the bar stools to better match the room here s the gaudy art deco fabric that has been gracing them for the last half decade my doing i admit i removed two layers of past upholstery and discovered the original vinyl covers in pretty good shape underneath it all really cool but didn t match the decor so i recovered them in some canvas we picked up at joann fabrics that matches the curtain a little better an voila two barstools updated in under an hour next project to refinish the bar posted by the martineaus at 9 07 pm 1 comment tuesday february 16 2010 weekend basement warriors so inspired by some friends in cleveland who have an uber cool basement with a london theme and monikered the underground eric and i decided to reclaim the first room in our cavernous basement the room was heretofore home to the furnace dehumidifier shelves of comic books an armoir full of crafting supplies and a pile of project furniture that i ve had every intention of decoupaging for the last 3 years yeah that s really only about 1 2 the stuff that was in there but you get the picture first we filled in the various holes in the wall with cement and then we drylock painted the entire room even those walls that did not really need to be sealed as they are internal walls but we figured it couldn t hurt then we picked a lovely brick red color same as the one we used for the wine cellar and we painted the entire ceiling to camouflage the 100 years of grime and discoloration or at least make the beams not so immediately ugly while we were up there we also wiped down all of the ducts and cross beams see the makeshift beam support in the middle of this photo look for the pole between the ladder and the shopvac that holds a porch beam to the ceiling eric added some crossbars in a couple places that allowed us to remove the random pole in the middle of the room apologies to those of you who wanted to practice your stripper techniques then 3 of the 4 walls received a coat of interactive cream paint with good friends like suz helping out one afternoon we knocked out the wall painting project in no time suz is also priceless as a photographer and captures a rare couple image we re standing in the corner that we hope houses the bar one day soon with the walls and ceiling painted it was time to tackle the concrete floor after numerous vacuumings and a couple passes with a mop we believe that once upon a time eons ago the front room flooded as it was covered with a very fine layer of silt which we have been sweeping and vacuuming up since the day we got here now we re just sealing in whatever little of it is left first up a coat of concrete sealer and a second coat for good measure the whole floor is left to cure for a week and then it gets a nice coat of subtle sage floor paint that has to cure for a week as well we hang a curtain and rod in the good room to shield the view of all of the stuff we hauled out of it to undertake this project curtain rod from big lots 10 curtain from pier one on clearance 17 50 not having to stare at the almost impassable adjoining room priceless a view of the curtain in action the one wall on the left as you enter the room we left white just in case we ever have to re seal it one day god forbid but i was allowed to paint the upper wall and ledge now who can spot the very subtle change in this photo from the one three back in the upper left corner you might notice a horizontal board and a cord the ingenious mister martineau created a brilliant contraption to store the dartboard and shield the newly painted walls and wine cellar door what you have above is a dartboard on a hinged platform that hooks up to the ceiling when not in use hanging from the rafter behind it and also hidden when not in use is a bamboo curtain that can be dropped down to protect the walls and door from displaced darts not from eric or i naturally in the while we are at it category we decided to replace the ugly vinyl tile on the steps down to the basement first we had to pry them up we found some vinyl tiles at lowe s that look very similar to our kitchen floor real tiles 22 and 1 2 an hour later and we have a swanky new entrance to our future lounge the oak trim and tin bar signs are from a previous mister martineau improvement project and now we re onto adornments from a fence finial found in our backyard on the old fence when we moved in eric created a nifty dart holder and in a quest to display some of the cool barware we own rather than keeping it hidden in our cupboards i set out to create a shelf that will fit into the wall behind the bar see the couple photo for visual reference i picked up all of the supplies yesterday afternoon at lowe s in the midst of the snowstorm thank goodness for the help of my husband who s aid and superior carpentry skills made this project go twice as fast the nearly assembled shelf has the decorative molding clamped below it will also get molding on the shelves then a coat of stain and poly posted by the martineaus at 9 01 am 4 comments tuesday january 12 2010 stairway to heaven i planned on removing the second half of our basement stairs to waterproof the foundation wall a secondary goal was to change the stair angle so that i wouldn t hit my head when going down the stairs you see the staircase that was there when we bought the house was not the original i m guessing the original rotted due to the water in replacing the original staircase the angle was altered you can see below that the final tread of the replacement stairs extended into the doorway in the picture below you can see the original stair dimensions which are still visible in the concrete skimcoat you can also see the 2nd stairway dimensions outlined in the white paint this is the wall that had moisture penetration below is the stairway with the dirt and debris cleaned out far enough to allow me to 1 access the wall and waterproof it and 2 install steeper risers so the stairs don t have such a long horizontal travel discovering the hole in the floor i decided to patch that too below i cut new risers after calculating the rise run which would allow me to walk the stairs without ducking my head this entailed measuring the total vertical and horizontal distances to be covered and trying to find a rise run ratio that would get you low enough fast enough to avoid hitting your head but still be walkable back inside after using hydraulic cement and cement patch against the foundation wall i dryl0ck painted the whole area the wood trim in the photo below is where you would hit your head when walking down the old stairs below is the new staircase it is really great to be able to walk down the stairs without ducking or doing a limbo walk they are steeper than they were but not even so steep as dutch stairs and finally a view from the top now the stairs end well before the doorway posted by the martineaus at 11 42 am no comments friday january 8 2010 tales from the underground still cold so still working in the basement we attacked the next section of wall over the past few days step 1 clear the wall once cleared scrape the loose paint next patch holes and then paint paint paint posted by the martineaus at 3 49 pm no comments monday january 4 2010 15 degrees indoor projects january has arrived with cold temperatures and a blanket of snow despite the cold it gladdens my heart to see bicycle tracks in the snow aside from walking the dogs outdoors is a bit too cold to enjoy so we decided to work on our basement these first few days of 2010 below is one of the walls in the first basement room just as we found it 3 years ago the bottles are relics from the crawl space we scraped off the loose paint patched some damaged concrete and began the seal coat and viola one white wall we figure that the one wall is about 15 of the whole room so we have plenty of work remaining but it was a good start posted by the martineaus at 10 42 am no comments friday december 18 2009 casings cornice a few weeks ago i wrote about stripping and refinishing some painted door casings i posted a photo of the white painted casings next to our laundry closet door below is the door after i removed the casings at the same time i removed the painted casings to the door into the second floor den guestroom after stripping the paint and sanding out the remaining paint i stained and poly d them pictured below is the finished product i also made significant ground on the other project the tin ceiling cornice installation i m not done yet as i am 2 pieces shy of having enough to finish it turns out when measuring i probably used the actual wall cabinet measurements and didn t account for the 5 25 inches of overhang on any exterior corner and also i had to line up the seams in the cornice pieces with the seams on the ceiling which resulted in me needing to cut off somewhere between 1 and 6 inches on every corner it was a challenge nailing into the hardwood cabinets even after drilling pilot holes but i didn t end up destroying any pieces so i am fortunate i think i will take a break and just enjoy it over the holidays posted by the martineaus at 11 27 am 2 comments monday december 14 2009 tackling the tin ceiling crown molding below is our kitchen ceiling we installed the tin ceiling lets say 2 years ago before the rest of the kitchen was installed after the flooring cabinets counters paint and trim were installed we still had to install the crown molding this quite frankly scared the heck outta me since 1 i ve neve installed molding and have no experience with mitering coping and 2 the molding is thin thin thin metal meaning it the pieces don t join in a tight seam it could look pretty poor oh and 3 since it has to mate with the tin ceiling if i don t get it flush you will see a gap and it will look crappy so for the last 16 months i have put it off but a sudden burst of courage and i decided to take it on we purchased the cornice pieces at the same time we bought the ceiling pieces and thankfully did not destroy them during the past 2 years armed with all the installation instructions i could find on the internet and a power miter saw borrowed from old friends i was equiped to do the job now to see if i could actually do it and below you have section 1 honestly can t believe how well it is coming out not claiming it s perfect but over all quite happy with it so far 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