Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
After ordering new appliances for the kitchen at the beginning of the year, they finally arrived in late spring and were ready to be installed. The new Cove dishwasher and Wolf induction range came first: That install went without a hitch. I love both of them, and the induction top is truly life changing. The … Continue reading Appliance Install
Despite the pool excavation being a little more involved than anticipated, the project to install the pool managed to roll on mostly on schedule. The Patio Pleasures team arrived, and started installing the pool walls and setting up the pump, filter, and heater. Next, the plumbing went in, along with the liner, and we could … Continue reading Pool Installation
After putting in new flooring and painting three of the bathrooms in the house, the last steps were to install new counters (plus fixtures and sinks), and update the mirrors with mirror frames. Here were the original counters: I orders the same countertop material that I used in the master bathroom remodel, along with the … Continue reading Guest/Office/Basement Bathroom Counters and Mirrors
After installing the bar cabinetry and sink, there wasn’t a whole lot left to do. I glued the countertops in place and anchored the lower cabinets into the walls, and plumbed the sink. I then put bottles into place, and added a bunch of cool glassware and other bar tools. I also hung a small … Continue reading Finishing the Bar
Another late-winter / early-spring project I wanted to work on was remodeling the bar. The first phase of this project was driving to Indianapolis and picking up a new bar, and ordering new bar cabinets. The second phase was putting in new flooring. And the third phase was actually installing the bar cabinets and the … Continue reading Bar Cabinetry Install
When the master bathroom remodel was wrapped up in December, there was one remaining task that I didn’t get around to completing until recently: replacing the cabinet in the powder room that covered the shower’s complex plumbing. With the previous steam shower, the steam apparatus was pretty short and was covered by an oak cabinet … Continue reading Powder Room Plumbing Cabinet
After the drywall repair that was done in mid-January, I repainted the walls and put all of the rooms back together, which was one of the last steps before all of my winter flooring work could begin. After that, I worked to get everything cleared out for the new flooring. Most of this simply involved … Continue reading Repaired Drywall Painting + Final Floor Prep
Prior to the next round of flooring installation, I had various parts of the house (and especially the guest house) that needed to have drywall repaired. In the main house, there was a piece of drywall that had been damaged near the bar, and in the sunroom a corner near the ceiling had sustained water … Continue reading Drywall Repair
At long last, the new shower door has finally arrived and was installed today by Monroe Glass. It looks great, and completes the master bathroom remodel. It’s going to take 24 hours for the calk to set, but once that’s done I’m looking forward to taking it for a spin! Continue reading New Shower Door
After two long weeks of work, the master bathroom remodel is almost done. All that’s left is a new door for the shower, which will take several weeks to be fabricated. Now that the tile is done on both the floor and the shower itself, it’s striking how good it looks! The last touch I … Continue reading Master Bathroom (Almost) Complete
