Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
This past weekend, I made a huge push to get the lake house bathroom close to done. I’m getting minor surgery to fix a hernia next week, and will be out of commission for several weeks after that, so I wanted to get the majority of the work for this project done. I finished painting, … Continue reading Lake House Bathroom: Almost Finished!
This week I had an electrician come to the lake house and finish the wiring for the kitchen remodel. He had to install new junction boxes for the oven and range upstairs, linking them to the old junction boxes in the basement ceiling. After that, I did some final cabinetry work to build a base … Continue reading Lake House Kitchen Finished
Today, the last round of deliveries from Best Buy arrived, along with a bonus delivery from Restoration Hardware. Best Buy installed a wall oven and range on the upstairs kitchen, plus an oven, range, and refrigerator in the downstairs kitchen. There is some final electrical work to be done to wire the upstairs oven and … Continue reading Lake House Appliances Almost Done
After I got back home from LA, Schieffe Custom Carpentry almost immediately got started with the crown molding install at the main house in Verona. It was a two day project, involving three living rooms and the main foyer for the house. On the first day, they did the formal living room and part of … Continue reading Crown Molding Complete
While on vacation in Los Angeles, I stopped by the Beverly Hills Restoration Hardware and picked out lighting and a mirror to go with the reclaimed Russian Oak vanity and the oak cabinets I had already purchased. I went with a brass mirror and a bronze light fixture, which complement both each other and the … Continue reading More Bathroom Furniture
Since May of this past year, I’ve turned over essentially my entire fleet of cars. I went from: Jaguar XJL Supercharged Mercedes SL600 Porsche Boxster S Ford F250 Super Duty To this: Bentley Flying Spur Mercedes SL550 Porsche Cayman S Range Rover Sport Supercharged Ford F250 Super Duty I always try to keep my garages … Continue reading New Garage Signs
The lake house bathroom is fairly small, and so I am limited to a single vanity. Further, the vanity that I am going with from Restoration Hardware doesn’t have any built in storage. This made it pretty important to find cabinetry that provided enough storage space without taking up too much space. A floor cabinet … Continue reading Bathroom Cabinets
I was in Dallas the entire last week, so I was able to stop into the Knox Henderson Restoration Hardware and look at vanities. I am planning on ordering a Reclaimed Russian Oak vanity with a marble top and a farmhouse-style sink, which connects the mid-century modern meets lake house style that I’ve tried to … Continue reading Vanity Shopping
Today I finalized the crown molding designs and signed a contract with the carpentry company, Scheife Custom Carpentry, who will be doing the work. Scheife provided me a basic sketch when we were initially discussing the project: The design shows how it will work in the context of flying crown, with the cathedral ceilings in … Continue reading Crown Molding Design
Another project I am planning on doing this winter (or really having done for me by contractors) is a bunch of crown molding work on the main level of my house in Verona. I’ve done crown molding before, and it turned out pretty well but it’s definitely a challenge to do well in natural oak … Continue reading Crown Molding Planning
