A big, big project went down while I was off on vacation back in March/April of 2019–the chimney got stripped.
You’re probably scratching your head at that statement, so let me….illustrate.
Below are three images showing the central chimney column in the great room. First a shot of the space before we bought the house, then right after moving in, and then a third from the downstairs area.
What do you notice about it? Probably that the chimney column is very noticeable. It’s a giant off-white pillar in a very spacious space. This is because for some unknown reason, the POs painted it. And like most of the work they did (at least most of the work they did to sell the house), the job was done in a half-assed manner.
Just three years after buying this place, the paint was flaking and beginning to peel. Since we had giant white splotches on the walls of the great room where the return furnace vents once were, and new molding that was installed as part of the floor refinishing project–not to mention staples galore across the decorative beams that separate the upper and lower sections of the structure–we decided “what was one more mess in that space prior to finally painting the walls a color other than urine?”
So I called my favorite house painter and asked if he was interested in the job, which he was. So during the month I was gone, he spent several days making the pillar not-an-eyesore.
The work involved not only scaffolding, but sealing off things a bit, as while most of the work was done by a chemical agent, there was some dust kicked up.
In addition to the removal of paint, the team also patched the super awful trench-like holes in the closet that the electricians created when I had the switches outside my office revamped.
And literally to top it all off, Agent Smith made use of a dry day to set up conduit on the roof and side of the great room building for the directional antennae wiring that provides our network connectivity to the outside world. This means when the wind blows, we no longer hear a loose cable slapping about against the roof. A very nice subtle improvement.
That mirror would make a nice addition above a workbench in the shop. Classy…
yeah the POs had really questionable taste…if you can even call it that. Don’t get me started on the number of framed family photos they had everywhere.