Back to Work - Entryway Revival

We're back to remodeling! One day after Sara's MRI results came back without any major issues, we got right back into working on the home. First project on the list...entryway & front room. As most of you that have attended an event at our home know, we have a lot of varied dark wood, including railroad tie-esque trim in our home that we inherited. We had a contractor come in and look at it and even she was a bit baffled on why anyone would use railroad ties inside a home, so we knew we would have a bit of a challenge.

When you enter our house, you are greeted by a large obstruction just to the right which seperates the little entryway and the large front room...


View from the main room...not sure what the purpose ever was

Another view...notice that we are also painting the trim and windows white...multi tasking at its finest

Not really sure what we were doing, we decided to jump right in. Brian borrowed a sawzall from his boss, Kenny, and we got set up for the action. We have mentally gone over the best ways on getting this beast down for months, and luckily during our overview we noticed that the ties weren't connected to the wall except for a few nails angled at the very top. That being said, this was our first time using a sawzall and not having my dad with us directing us on what to do...we may not have had too much confidence.

After the first cut with no major accidents, Brian was able to knock out the tie and much like everything else in our house, the previous handiwork was a little decieving. These weren't railroad ties at all...but wood posts that were painted to look like it (who does that?).  They were super easy for Brian to haul down to our trash and the project took a lot less time than we thought.  So much faster than we thought that Sara felt we had plenty of time to add another layer of paint to the windows before the new episode of Hard Knocks started.

Now for the big reveal (ok Part 1 Reveal)...

Boom...not too shabby

Ignore  the gold light fixture...we are only on part one

We're pretty excited about the end result, especially because we could call my parents to come over and check it out without asking for help on how to fix it. :) There will be a lot of touch up work, lots of new paint, trim, door, new tile (that may have to wait for a bit)...but we are looking forward to putting more work into it and making it ours.

Until the next episode....


XOXO,

Sara & Brian