Welcome! Its me, Stephen Clark. This is my site and it is where I share all things fun, silly, interesting and thoughtful. I occasionally make digital bits and my resume is always an entertaining read. The site is made with care and paperclips in New Jersey, USA.
As mentioned below, we renovated the basement recently. And here is the end result of the work. While we sadly had to do away with the 1970′s fake wood paneling and disco era wallpaper, I think the end result is a far nicer space. More photos here.
This week, we had the basement dry walled from head to toe. That means that we got rid of the 1970′s style fake wood dark paneling and the groovy wallpaper covering the staircase. I will admit that covering over the wallpaper was not an easy decision, as that was some of the swingin’est, grooviest wallpaper [...]
Here is the finished living room. The tables are there because we hosted Thanksgiving this year and we turned the living room into the dining room to accomidate all the guests/relatives/friends. The room ended up far exceeding my expectations. The bookcases and the wall color are great and I am just thrilled with it. And [...]
We recently had the floors sanded in the main living room, the dining room, and in the upstairs hallway. We also had the rancid carpet in the TV room removed and replaced with hardwood floors. With that work done, I was able to finally install the basboards in these rooms. Below are some photos of [...]
We caved in and had a new roof installed on the house. The old roof was the orginal roof, so all we had to do was install the new roof on top, which saved some cash. There were some serious rain storms in August and we noticed some leaks near the back of the house. [...]
The past few weeks we have been ripping up the last remnants of the deep, deep green (that’s right, its not Forest Green, its deeper than that) carpeting that was in the upstairs hallway and the stairs. The first few photos below are what the stairs and hallway used to look like. The last few [...]
Here are some before and afters of the kitchen. In the kitchen, we removed the wallpaper, painted the walls, and bought new appliances to replace the circa 1980′s ones that came with the house. We also removed the sponge painting, replaced the doors, cleaned the cabinets, and removed the big “Ikea-type” cabinet on the right [...]
We are in the process of painting the upstairs hallway so we thought it would be interesting to share a before and after of the upstairs hallway. In the newer photo of the hallway, the walls are just primed. We are hoping to get the walls painted over the next week or so.
Back in January we shared the photos of the old bathrooms. Here is how the kids bathroom turned out, minus a mirror that we need to order for over the sinks.
Again, back in January we shared photos of how the bathrooms looked when we purchased the house along with photos of them ripped down to the 2×4′s. Well, we are happy to report that, with the exception of installing a mirror in the kids bathroom, they are pretty much done. In the old bathrooms, the [...]
These are before and after photos of Ian’s room. We put in new closet doors and closet shelves, and obviously gave it a nice coat of blue paint. We ripped up the “beautiful” deep green (no, not Forest Green…it was deeper than that) carpet to reveal hardwood floors. Someone who lived there before wrote on [...]
These are before and after photos of Rebecca’s room. As with Ian’s room, we ripped up the deep green carpeting to reveal hardwood floors. The flooring near the outside wall was a bit damaged but we can roll with it. It appears that the window has a little leak in it of some sort and [...]