"There's a point in all my renovations that I look around and think, "What have I done?" - and I have to be honest that after the crew tore through the front room of the 1883 shotgun-style house my husband and I lovingly dubbed Cherry Pop, there was a real moment of oh noooooo. With wood-paneled walls (painted purple and putrid green), a drop ceiling with a 1980s ceiling fan, and stick-on faux parquet flooring,"
"One of the biggest lessons I've learned in renovating old houses that have had deferred maintenance is it's best to just tear everything out and start fresh. It's tempting to try to cut corners, but it ends up taking more time and costing more money - and in the end everything has to go. So on day one we start a full demo."
"Even still, I try to save money where I can, and I thought we'd only be exposing the brick on the (covered-over) fireplace. Then I tapped some of the plaster next to the fireplace with my toe ... and it crumbled. That made it obvious the plaster had to go, too, along with the drop ceiling, the fan, and the small closet (the last owners used this as a bedroom, but we didn't want to waste the space's gorgeous eight-foot-tall windows on a bedroom!)."
An 1883 shotgun-style house room nicknamed Cherry Pop required a complete overhaul due to wood-paneled walls, a drop ceiling, outdated fixtures, and faux parquet flooring. The renovation team performed a full demo to expose structural issues, discovering crumbling plaster that necessitated removing plaster, the ceiling, fan, and a small closet. Time constraints forced a rapid schedule with less than two months before moving. The approach prioritized starting fresh rather than patching, aiming to preserve high ceilings by highlighting them with fresh paint and to reconfigure the space to take advantage of tall, eight-foot-tall windows.
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