With our three final home projects, we have now replaced every floor covering, painted every wall and ceiling and updated every room in the house in some way in the nearly 12 years we have lived here. I think the front door is the only thing left.
These final projects were all upstairs. We had all of the baseboards and door casings replaced with 4 inch white trim and had all of the doors painted white. This was done by our same neighbor the trim carpenter and his painter partner who did our first floor crown molding, trim and doors three years ago. Then the carpet guys came and replaced all of the bedroom carpets. This was quite an exercise in staging, as the carpet guys couldn't come until the baseboards were installed. And the trim team couldn't come while they were doing updates on their own homes. The real treat besides hiding in the basement to work for two weeks was that the doors (by our choice) were all painted offsite and returned after the carpet installation. So for two weeks the only doors we had were the hallway bathroom (which was already previously updated) and the master bedroom. They waited for that one until the last second, so we were only without it for 5 of the days.
And around all of this another neighbor who specializes in bathroom renovation, gutted and installed a new master bath! The floor plan and overall dimensions are the same, but he took out the soffit and widened the shower to the full wall depth. So the shower is bigger and everything is bright and white and clean! Luckily we had a long weekend and nowhere we could go thanks to COVID to put the house back together once everyone was out.
