Thread: Mo crackhouse pics

It's been awhile since I posted any new pics of the progress so I thought I'd throw some up. The first photos are of the room destroyed at the last party by Frozen, board and iskibc.

OK, posting pics has changed since I last did this...let's try again:

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The claw foot that I forgot to post last time and a bunch of main floor pics:

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Smore random main floor pics:

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For the "before" pics of the first room (the one with the mantle) check this link and board with the crow bar:

http://tetongravity.com/forums/showt...ght=crackhouse

Stylee, kick butt work.

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Stylee, kick butt work.

Thanks man. These old houses make it easy (brick behind crappy walls, hardwood under bad carpet).

I love the molding and rosette work on the brick, lighting is nice too. Nice blend, seems like you could mix Dutch Modern, Cheap Chic and Downeast all into one there.

Nice job, some cool features in there.

Originally Posted by trainnvain

I love the molding and rosette work on the brick, lighting is nice too. Nice blend, seems like you could mix Dutch Modern, Cheap Chic and Downeast all into one there.

Those moldings came with the house as well. Just needed some new paint. Trying to buy carpentry of that size and quality now would break the bank. If the people who first owned the house would've just let it stay the same from the day it was created (no shag carpet, wallpaper etc..) these houses would be incredible. Really the main project on this house has been removing all the previous remodel work.

It's amazing how small the molding and furniture looks in the photos due to how huge the distance to the ceiling is.

i think you maaaaay have improved the property value. maybe.

wow....that's impressive.

I wish I could do stuff like that. fkna.

was all of that your ideas? or did you have one of those.....uhhh specialists help. what the hell do you call someone who decorates houses.

WELL DONE
Your lucky to have a good ol' set of brick walls to make use of....
MAD STYLE MANG!!

GT40

is so proud right now!


JA super sweet!!!!



are you fuking kidding me??



dont they have a walmart in your hood yet?

MD9 - YOU DA HOUSEPROUD METROSEXUAL MAAAANG!

Originally Posted by pollard

was all of that your ideas? or did you have one of those.....uhhh specialists help. what the hell do you call someone who decorates houses.

It is called a wife Pollard, and I don't think he is married.

Originally Posted by warthog

It is called a wife Pollard, and I don't think he is married.

Yes, he is.

Wow......That's a really cool old house......right on.

I give it three FM's up http://www.tc.umn.edu/~find0029/Untitled-3.gif http://www.tc.umn.edu/~find0029/Untitled-3.gif http://www.tc.umn.edu/~find0029/Untitled-3.gif

Thanks all. You'd be suprised just how cheap it is to do. The only furniture pieces pictured I didn't build are the metal pieces and the couches (no metal work skills). The lockers were $20.00 and the desk was $2.50 (both have been refinished). We got them at a city of denver surplus auction. I think they came out of an old school. The tub came with the house and my wife refinished it.

pollard, I think the term you're looking for is "interior designer". No we didn't use one. These are all ideas we came up with. I'm a "graphic designer" by trade so making things look cool and working with colors and textures are kind-of my thing already.

roo, just an artist. Somehow those gay guys get all the credit for when a man makes anything other than a car look cool. They took our steeze.

For the brick you just sledge off the plaster, wire brush it and put some urethane on.

When we bought the house we knew all the cool details like floors, bricks, molding, high ceilings were all there waiting to be uncovered. It makes it really cheap to remodel when you don't have to buy new floors, moldings, etc. All you have to do is spend time to restore them. It's like that with every house in our neighborhood. There's two other houses on our block right now going through remodels as well.

J: Where did you get those cool submarine-style caged lighting fixtures?

I'm helping my friends deal with a similar situation right now. The previous owners' solution to water damage was to nail up fake wood paneling over the rotted plaster and paint all the trim pink. I don't believe it's possible to make the interior of a house look any uglier.

It's a slow, room by room process. They had to rip both parlors down to the joists because the water damage was so bad. That's what happens when your roof leaks and you don't do anything about it for twenty years.

I've been helping them rip down the paneling, sanding, mudding, priming, and painting. My room looks like this now:

Originally Posted by Spats

J: Where did you get those cool submarine-style caged lighting fixtures?

Ooooh! Ooooh! I can answer this. We had 20-30 of these lying around when we cleaned out my dad's construction yard. Look in a contractor's supply catalog like Grainger or something. Maybe Home Depot even has them. They're really cool. The fixture is sealed and the glass screws into the fixture. The glass seems fairly bombproof too. You'd have to really give it a knock to crack it. Also, they sell versions with red glass. It would be cool to switch out for a party or something.

Nice work MD9!!!! It's amazing what a little alcohol, some hammers, and a bunch of drunk maggots can do.

I don't see billow hanging out of the celing anywhere. Sweet work J doesn't even look like the same house since the last time I was there

He's crafty.[/bb]

If you built those hutch's and you're not building them for a living.

you're in the wrong business.

nice work man. I just closed on a place two weeks ago.

sanded the deck and refinished last weekend. childs play compared to what you've done.