Progress has been made. Project is more or less done. Now i'm trying to piece my house and life back together. With this comes pictures! It's looking fantastic right now. The fumes from the stain are gone and i'm no longer getting high! I'm not sure if i'm going to post pics of the rest of the windows with their blinds on or even the glass block in the basement or not. I know i would love to get nicer wood blinds but not sure when that'll happen. These were significantly cheaper than the roughly $180 per wood ones i was looking at. The wood ones look fantastic buuuuuut this project has cost me enough already.
Slowly but surely i'm also replacing outlets which are in bad shape while my house is in disarray. As i piece stuff back together i'm also cleaning the shit out of it all to get rid of the dust and also because i've not been awesome about cleaning the past couple years (or ever). Doubt i'll ever post pics of when things are 100% done because they'll honestly never be done!
Through all of this, the work has been done in a reasonable amount of time and wasn't as big of a nightmare as it could have been for me. Considering what got done, things stayed pretty clean which is remarkable.
This is the window facing onto my enclosed front porch facing west. This would be the south west corner of the house. This will be one of the main windows giving me fresh air during summer as i geek out on my computer in the corner. The white is mud from where they're patching the damage to the plaster. It'll look better when i finally paint this summer.
This is my upstairs window facing south. The walls look muuuuuch better than they really are. Some nasty ass wood paneling on them from god knows when. This window was completely shot originally. This is also the one that gets hit with the most sun year round. Really need to get some blinds up there so the neighbors don't think i'm creepier than i already am.
Here you will see two windows that face onto the front porch. The TV is normally in front of them and these windows have never been usable for airflow for me. They've always been drafty. The heat thermostat is about another 2 feet away from the edge of the picture. Always the draftiest room in the house.
My bedroom downstairs window is the one that had the most plaster damage around it. Very impressed with how it came out. Coincidentally, the white from the patching makes it look like i've got some kind of cloud theme going in my room which i very much do not!
Finally here's that same window after i got the blinds put on. These were a different style of blinds which i've never used before. The instructions said to use a 1/16" drill bit. Wrong! Ruined one of the screw heads in the process. Wound up going through 5 bits before settling on a 1/8" bit. This took me 45 minutes to get the blinds in this window! It had to get easier than this otherwise i was going to cry!!! These blinds enable me to now have some privacy in my bedroom and blocks out the damned alley light!
The south window downstairs is another window that always gets hammered by the elements. I had replaced it with a chap vinyl window a couple of years ago as a band aid. As you can see there was some mild plaster damage from the work around the window but nothing too bad. It's going to be fantastic once I get around to painting. I like this pic the most because it shows how well the stained oak matches the original pine. I accidentally matched them up almost perfectly!
Here is what it looks like afterwards with some blinds on. Only took me 10 minutes (a far cry from 45 min before) to hang these while stopping long enough to mix myself a drink. Yay for privacy!!!
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