beforeYou all remember where we left off with our pie-window adventure? The above photo shows the old doorway on the left (with the green bathroom visible) and the ex-pie window/new doorway on the right (kitchen visible with paneling pre-makeover). Now let's take a jump below and see what became of our labors...
after
Ta-da! No, nothing earth shattering but a much more pleasant and open living room.
mid-process
We added some new framing to the old doorway and slapped up some sheetrock. After plastering and priming from the living room side, all that was needed was a good coat of paint. It also gave us a place for a bookcase, which was seriously lacking with the old layout.
mid-process
On the other side of the wall, we gained a hallway. We drywalled over the wood paneling so that the filled in doorway would simply disappear (hint: old doorway is somewhere behind the picture).
new view from the kitchen
Still to come when our projects move back inside: finishing all of the corners and doorways with trim (yes, that brown line will go away!) and getting some art up on our walls.
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good job. looks great! :)
beautiful job!
(on a selfish note: what is the color name and brand of that grey?)
The living room side looks pretty good - tho I would have done a floating credenza rather than the red bookcase...
...but in the new hall - why did you run the drywall across the entire wall rather than just within the opening?
Now you have a rough-edge of drywall that protrudes beyond the original doorway moulding - That looks really bad.
This layout change totally makes sense. Who wants to stare at a bathroom from their living room? Good job in thinking beyond paint and executing your vision!
nice...much better!
Great work! This looks so much better.
looks good from the living room side. i'm wondering the same things as bepsf, though - did you put the new drywall over the old door/hole, or is it flush with the other walls? from the looks of the one pic, it is not 'flush,' but it is labeled "mid-process" so maybe thats why...
This looks great! Good job. It makes so much more sense with this layout.
to: bepsf
I think it would have been a pain to piece in the drywall and get it to look smooth. Much better idea to replace all the dry wall, and as they said, they will redo the molding around the door so the edge of the drywall is not going to be permanent.
"We drywalled over the wood paneling to that the filled in doorway would simply disappear"
also think it looks much better this way. nice job! (and a second request for the brand/name of that shade of gray in the living room...)
Why didn't you create a built-in bookcase? If I had my druthers, I'd have built-in's everywhere...
gretchenalexis and aeh: sorry it took so long, i had to search for the paint-chip. it's benjamin moore brand paint and the color is "hot spring stones". it's actually more brown than gray, it's an almost perfect match to haagen daas coffee ice cream!