{btw - what lens do you use for the wider angle shots of the room?}
It is a Tamon 10-24 wide angle lens. I really like it. I have some wide angle before shots but they weren't from the same angle as the after shot so I didn't upload any of those.
Wow what an amazing job! Those floors are unbelievably beautiful and I can't wait to see the bathrooms and all the trim go in.
Where did you gt your light fixture? I really like it.
Also, did you do most of this work yourselves? I'm curious about the sub floor replacing and leveling - we are wondering if this is feasible to do in one of the rooms of our house, so I'd be interested to hear about whether you did that yourselves .
{btw - what lens do you use for the wider angle shots of the room?}
It is a Tamon 10-24 wide angle lens. I really like it. I have some wide angle before shots but they weren't from the same angle as the after shot so I didn't upload any of those.
Thanks!! I've been looking for a wide angle that's more affordable; added that one to my Amazon wish list
Thanks everyone! It is a Tamon 10-24 wide angle lens. I really like it. I have some wide angle before shots but they weren't from the same angle as the after shot so I didn't upload any of those.
Thanks!! I've been looking for a wide angle that's more affordable; added that one to my Amazon wish list
This is my first Tamron and I'm really impressed with it. Having a much lower price point than a similar Nikkor lenses helped too.
Wow what an amazing job! Those floors are unbelievably beautiful and I can't wait to see the bathrooms and all the trim go in.
Where did you gt your light fixture? I really like it.
Also, did you do most of this work yourselves? I'm curious about the sub floor replacing and leveling - we are wondering if this is feasible to do in one of the rooms of our house, so I'd be interested to hear about whether you did that yourselves .
What a transformation!
Yes we did everything ourselves except for rough plumbing and connecting the electrical lines to the main panel. Demo of both fireplaces and chimney, patching roof, taking siding off two sides of the house to install new windows, framing, running all of the electrical wires and installing the boxes, finish plumbing (getting the lines from the floor to the fixture and connecting the fixture), redoing the subfloor, building the custom mud shower base (this we hired out as well but got a discounted rate because DH acted as his apprentice and helped him do it), all of the tiling and grout work, HW floor install and finishing, drywall and texture, painting, etc.
For the uneven floor there are a couple options; two of which we used. The easiest IMO is to level the floor joists as much as possible because it's only a small portion you need to level vs. the whole floor. Our solution was to buy a sheet of 1/8", 1/4", and 3/8" plywood and cut them down into small strips. Then we went around with 6' levels and tried to determine the high and low spots. We filled the low spots with various strips, staging/feathering the pieces so it was a smoother transition, glued them down with PL-400 subfloor adhesive, and screwed the underlayment down on top of them after it was all dried. (The underlayment is what the bottom level of plywood is called BTW. The subfloor is technically just the plywood on top of that.) We hit the transitions with a belt sander but didn't necessarily smooth them out completely because some of it gets absorbed (aka. smooshed) into the plywood when you screw it down. Our goal was to level the floor to itself not necessarily make the whole thing level from one end of the house to the other. For example if you put a marble down on the floor it would still roll slightly but it would be a smooth roll not a bumpy one like it was before...LOL.
Then in one area where we were trying to get the tile to line up to the HW floors in the master bathroom so we built the doorway up slightly with old shingles so it would line up. Similar to this post: www.oneprojectcloser.com/how-to-level-a-plywood-or-osb-subfloor-using-asphalt-shingles-construction-felt/ We didn't want to do this for the whole floor though because it was going to add a lot of weight to the floor and we didn't have a ton of extra shingles laying around.
We upgraded our subfloor to be plywood instead of particle board while we were at it as well. There are a bunch of guidelines on how to install the plywood if you're interested I can send page you with that.
HTH
ETA: The light is from Visual Comfort. It was a splurge but I thought it was perfect for the space and was able to find a good deal on all of the other lighting for the rooms we were remodeling. I ordered it from an interior designer blogger who uses them a lot (Verana Interiors) and was able to get a deal because of her for-the-trade discount.
Yes we did everything ourselves except for rough plumbing and connecting the electrical lines to the main panel. Demo of both fireplaces and chimney, patching roof, taking siding off two sides of the house to install new windows, framing, running all of the electrical wires and installing the boxes, finish plumbing (getting the lines from the floor to the fixture and connecting the fixture), redoing the subfloor, building the custom mud shower base (this we hired out as well but got a discounted rate because DH acted as his apprentice and helped him do it), all of the tiling and grout work, HW floor install and finishing, drywall and texture, painting, etc.
For the uneven floor there are a couple options; two of which we used. The easiest IMO is to level the floor joists as much as possible because it's only a small portion you need to level vs. the whole floor. Our solution was to buy a sheet of 1/8", 1/4", and 3/8" plywood and cut them down into small strips. Then we went around with 6' levels and tried to determine the high and low spots. We filled the low spots with various strips, staging/feathering the pieces so it was a smoother transition, glued them down with PL-400 subfloor adhesive, and screwed the underlayment down on top of them after it was all dried. (The underlayment is what the bottom level of plywood is called BTW. The subfloor is technically just the plywood on top of that.) We hit the transitions with a belt sander but didn't necessarily smooth them out completely because some of it gets absorbed (aka. smooshed) into the plywood when you screw it down. Our goal was to level the floor to itself not necessarily make the whole thing level from one end of the house to the other. For example if you put a marble down on the floor it would still roll slightly but it would be a smooth roll not a bumpy one like it was before...LOL.
Then in one area where we were trying to get the tile to line up to the HW floors in the master bathroom so we built the doorway up slightly with old shingles so it would line up. Similar to this post: www.oneprojectcloser.com/how-to-level-a-plywood-or-osb-subfloor-using-asphalt-shingles-construction-felt/ We didn't want to do this for the whole floor though because it was going to add a lot of weight to the floor and we didn't have a ton of extra shingles laying around.
We upgraded our subfloor to be plywood instead of particle board while we were at it as well. There are a bunch of guidelines on how to install the plywood if you're interested I can send page you with that.
HTH
ETA: The light is from Visual Comfort. It was a splurge but I thought it was perfect for the space and was able to find a good deal on all of the other lighting for the rooms we were remodeling. I ordered it from an interior designer blogger who uses them a lot (Verana Interiors) and was able to get a deal because of her for-the-trade discount.
Wow. Color me impressed.
I think we also want to level the floor 'to itself' rather than to-the-universe - we just want it to feel even when you walk across. I think for us, the problem is that the floor joists for an addition were not made level to the original part of the home - and they just tried to smooth the transition. I was thinking that if we pull up the carpet (which needs to be replaced anyway), we could measure the difference and add another layer of plywood on top of the existing subfloor (or replace existing subfloor with thicker plywood) to raise it up to the level of the original house. But maybe a less expensive alternative would be to add to the joists like you did and just put the original subfloor back on.