This is/has been the largest reno room, both in scope and sheer disruption... so far (we still have the main floor bathroom to tackle). We ended up rehabing this room in fits and starts because each time we really didn't plan on doing much, which of course turned into doing more.
There is also the case of opening up a wall or a soffit and then being faced with additional projects as reno collateral (such as with the Guest Room, but on a much larger scale). If I can remember correctly, it goes something like this:
(Later referred to as Phase I)
- Decide the polyurethane on the maple cabinets has yellowed to the point of being load; sand down cabinet doors, drawers & boxes; restain them with 'Gunstock' in an attempt to complement the fir stairs
- Wonder why someone just had to have a single knob for hardware, when there were handles before, resulting in there being three holes in all of the cabinets & drawer fronts
Phase II
- Convince the husband to do 'exploratory' work on the sofit above the cabinets to see if it is hiding electrical/plumbing/HVAC; decide it isn't; demolish it only to find that the ceiling does not pre-date the soffit.
- Decide to cover the whole ceiling versus just cobble in a drywall patch; find beautiful salvaged Douglas fir that has been milled into tongue & groove beadboard; find a new level of swearing putting up furring strips after we realize that the ceiling joists switch directions midway through the room.
- Complete the 'marriage-building exercise' that is laying a wood floor above your head; recruit our friends to help us mill down 2'x6'x14' boards of CVG fir on New Year Day, in the cold, to use for trim.
- Get all kinds of polyurethane in you hair trying brush it on upside-down.
- Get all kinds of polyurethane drops on the lino that you didn't realize were there, but do once they start to collect every unscrubbable fleck of dirt and make you crazy.
Phase III
- Decide to replace the floors in the kitchen along with the Living and Dining Rooms
- Find out that the last two layers of the lino-lino-particle board-sparkly yellow stuff-particle board in the kitchen cannot be removed, and so we can't do any nail down flooring
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