What we gladly discovered after removing the crown moulding was that this is how the previous owners were able to hardwire speakers into almost every room.Īll the rooms, including the garage, have random wires popping out of walls, floors, ceilings, and cabinets, and we found that a lot of the wiring was hidden behind the crown moulding. My mom was upset with us for removing it because it’s “expensive to put in” and considered a desirable feature, but I didn’t think this particular moulding was going to make sense with the more modern style we want to bring to this home. I’m not generally against crown moulding, but for this house it didn’t feel right. From going around removing the myriad of Command strips all over the house with some causing damage to the walls, deciding on the light fixtures and built-in speakers we didn’t want to keep, removing a couple strangely out-of-place exhaust fans, and finding random holes and large openings that needed to be filled in, the project list kept growing to then include replacing interior doors (saving that for another post because it’s entirely its own disaster), putting in new door casings (saving that for the other post as well, DISASTER), removing plantation shutters and window casings (other post, too), and removing crown moulding. ![]() Because we’re painting every wall and ceiling in the house, we needed to look closer at prepping the canvas and this is where the project became bigger. I’d love to play with paint color in the future, but for now we wanted a blank slate and keep it easy by painting everything white. What seemed like a small task ended up being not small at all and is still going on today (we are estimated to finish this “pre-move-in” work by mid-end of November, which increases our original time estimate of 2 weeks up to 8-10 weeks!) It has been our first and thorough lesson on how projects can grow, complications happen, and budgets and timelines are merely suggestions.Īs you saw from the empty house tour, every room was painted a different color. ![]() ![]() We had a limited amount of time before we moved in to get some work done on the house, meaning we prioritized tasks that would be more convenient to do while none of our stuff was there yet, like painting.
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