You may notice two distinct voices in this blog. One is my husband, the numbers and equations guy. I'm the one who talks about our renovations and how pretty the houses are after our hard work.
Our first renovation project in our Old Nova Scotia Home cottage back in 2018 was upstairs. The layout included a little landing as well as three rooms, one large on one side of the house and two small rooms on the other. The two smaller rooms were accessed by one door and were really too small for anything other than just a bed. Also, the rooms have the typical old home slanted walls and old carpets.
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Just a bit of our renovation refuse
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The first thing we did was to rip down the wall between the two small rooms. Turned out the wall was not original and so it came out easily. Next, we tore off all the existing wall and ceiling coverings on the now two rooms - not so easy! The walls and ceilings were finished with something I think was called beaverboard. It was made of wood fiber pressed into sheets and was commonly used from the early 1900s till the late 1920s. Unlike drywall that you can pull off in big chunks, the beaverboard came off in little pieces - it took us weeks to get it all removed. And the nails ???? Hundreds of nails. My arms ached from pulling those suckers out of the beams. Then we insulated the little attic space, the upstairs walls, and ceilings. Finished up with drywall and did the walls in a relaxing beachy blue color. Very happy how it turned out. |
| I love how the sun shines in the window through the white gauze curtains |
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Lots of room for bureau and seats
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The first thing we did was to rip down the wall between the two small rooms. Turned out the wall was not original and so it came out easily. Next, we tore off all the existing wall and ceiling coverings on the now two rooms - not so easy! The walls and ceilings were finished with something I think was called beaverboard. It was made of wood fiber pressed into sheets and was commonly used from the early 1900s till the late 1920s. Unlike drywall that you can pull off in big chunks, the beaverboard came off in little pieces - it took us weeks to get it all removed. And the nails ???? Hundreds of nails. My arms ached from pulling those suckers out of the beams. Then we insulated the little attic space, the upstairs walls, and ceilings. Finished up with drywall and did the walls in a relaxing beachy blue color. Very happy how it turned out.
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