booker street

ladies and gentlemen

the booker street blog is poised to become what it was originally intended to be - a house blog. spr and i are on the verge of our very first home improvement project, not counting the two-month long toilet repair or the constant yard work. this weekend we will rip up the flooring in the dining room, sister the floor joists and lay new plywood subfloor. then, when our new 5", solid white oak planks arrive we will install that. holy shit, what are we thinking? well, we're certainly not thinking logically. but were gonna do it anyway.

we've been making big plans for our house. reflooring the first floor comes first, then we'll patch and repair the plaster walls. at some point we'll strip the layers and layers of paint off the trim and the french doors. we'll install a second set of french doors off the dining room. we'll rebuild the porch and wrap it around the south side of the house. we'll excavate and back fill the yard, install a patio and put up a fence. and, we'll remove the crappy alluminum siding and repair the originally stucco exterior. maybe we'll even raise the roof, so to speak, and break it up with a dormer window. we really like the look of this florida foursquare with a wrap-around porch and the classic foursquare dormer.

this is the photo from restoration on 7th (thank you). compare this foursquare with ours, which appears at the top, they're very similar narrow, side entry foursquares. ours is very modest and we think it would look snazzy with a wrap-around porch and dormer. and we could certainly use the space. work upstairs will involve a complete bathroom redo, flooring, closet building and office design. who knows how long all of this will take. we're not going anywhere for a while.

anyway, no more whining for me, except maybe about how many spiders live in the crawl space. i'm sure booker street won't be all renoblog from here on out, but i certainly intend to document our disasters!

posted by bls @ 4:34 PM