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You are here: Home / John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House" / House Update

House Update

by John Cole|  December 22, 20166:53 pm| 98 Comments

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Almost done with the flooring on the second and third floor. Closets and spare bedroom left on the second floor, quarter round on both floors still not complete. First, the third floor bedrooms:

Next, the shower, which is in the process of being grouted:

Finally, the second floor hallway, master bedroom, and office (ignore the construction mess):

Kitchen counters, sink, and oven hood go in tomorrow.

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  1. 1.

    Olivia

    December 22, 2016 at 6:54 pm

    Looks great!

  2. 2.

    JMG

    December 22, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    John, you may be broke, but you will be damn proud of a beautiful home. Pride makes ramen taste better.

  3. 3.

    Mnemosyne

    December 22, 2016 at 6:57 pm

    Very nice! I like that you’re keeping as much of the original woodwork as possible. I definitely envy you for lucking into a classic Craftsman house.

  4. 4.

    MazeDancer

    December 22, 2016 at 6:57 pm

    Such excellent progress! May it continue.

    Hope the landlord will let you come back and get all the lovely dirt from your raised beds if the ground has already frozen. One BBQ’s worth of frat boys and a rented pick-up may be way cheaper than redoing at new place. “Dirt cheap” and we all know, is a lie.

  5. 5.

    Libby

    December 22, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    Loving the red oak flooring. Also nice choice of tile on shower.

  6. 6.

    JPL

    December 22, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    It’s beautiful!

  7. 7.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    John, everything really does look great, but I have a question (seriously) about the photo of the soon-to-be-grouted shower:

    What the HELL is that pinkish roundish thing with eyes at the bottom of the photo?

    Seriously, that is creepy enough to be a clown in one of Omnes’ nightmares.

    What even IS it?

  8. 8.

    Marmot

    December 22, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    Hey! That floor looks nice!

  9. 9.

    John Cole

    December 22, 2016 at 7:03 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s the back of my friend’s bald head.

  10. 10.

    Doug!

    December 22, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    Looks great! You’re going to have a beautiful house!

  11. 11.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    @John Cole:

    It’s the back of my friend’s bald head.

    You are such a bullshitter, you should run for president.

  12. 12.

    laura

    December 22, 2016 at 7:12 pm

    Any chance your home was a Sears Roebuck order? I don’t recall any info in the year it was built, but they were hugely popular because every single part was delivered and assembled on site, and made to last.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    December 22, 2016 at 7:13 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Hey!

  14. 14.

    J R in WV

    December 22, 2016 at 7:14 pm

    Hi John,

    Looking great, happening so fast!

    What kind of flooring are you using? There are so many different kinds now, pre-finished, laminated, etc. It looks pretty good already, so I’m betting on pre-finished, which is what our next-door neighbors have laid in their dining room/music pickin’ room.

    Is it stained and pre-finished oak?

    The tile also looks great, a roomy shower is just what you need! Put in lots of grab bars!

  15. 15.

    John Cole

    December 22, 2016 at 7:15 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: FFS- It’s the back of his head. He is on his hands and knees mixing grout. I’m not making this up- his head is turned to the right and down and you can see the damned right ear piece of his glasses.

  16. 16.

    J R in WV

    December 22, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    @laura:

    My wife’s paternal grandparents had a Sears house, it wasn’t as nice as John’s is. Smaller, too, only two stories on a basement.

    John, I’d be interested in seeing pictures from the basement, even before and after of the tragically old and unmaintained stuff being removed. Probably too late for that, tho….

  17. 17.

    John Cole

    December 22, 2016 at 7:17 pm

    @J R in WV: pre finished 3/4″ red oak from Armstrong,

  18. 18.

    grumpy realist

    December 22, 2016 at 7:20 pm

    Hope that the closets are sufficiently large….I live in Oak Park, IL and the one thing that everyone bitches about with the older houses here are the teeny-weeny closets.

  19. 19.

    Steller

    December 22, 2016 at 7:21 pm

    I love the blue color in the third floor bedroom.

  20. 20.

    Yarrow

    December 22, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    Looks great! What color is that in what looks like the hallway or maybe looking into one of the bedrooms (last photo). Kind of an aqua color?

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    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:24 pm

    @John Cole:

    Whatever you say.

  22. 22.

    satby

    December 22, 2016 at 7:27 pm

    It all looks wonderful John. I love that orange color, did you already say what it was? Because now I want to do one bedroom in my house that color.

  23. 23.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:27 pm

    Everything is great, John. As someone who looks at home improvement projects now through jaded eyes developed after owning 3 houses that always needed so.many.things.done. – most of them “mushroom projects” and all the expense, agita, swear words and inconvenience, and who rarely, if ever misses it, I still get that pang of loss for the feels you get when you see your vision of what could be, come to fruition on a house that becomes YOURS. In all those instances I remember, at the end, believing it was all totally worth it.

  24. 24.

    Mike in NC

    December 22, 2016 at 7:27 pm

    Nice!

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:29 pm

    @grumpy realist:

    Another Oak Parker! I was born and grew up there (on North Euclid Avenue), and Mnem’s husband is from there, and Raven knows the village pretty well.

    What you say about closets is true. Our house was one of FLW’s early jobs — the exterior was largely untouched, but he gutted and completely redesigned the interior — but the bedroom closets for the most part were skimpy. OTOH, they all had built-in drawers. And the combo bathroom-dressing room in the first-floor suite was very generous with storage space for clothes.

  26. 26.

    Jordan Rules

    December 22, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    Looking really good John. Can’t wait to see it finished.

  27. 27.

    John Cole

    December 22, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    @satby: It’s, and I am not making this up:

    “Off the leash orange.”

    http://m.valsparpaint.com/color-detail.php?id=102316&g=100001

  28. 28.

    Aleta

    December 22, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    WOW. It’s beautiful. The house must have come with elves?
    Some day if you have time, I’d be interested to know what the flooring is. Elegant, looks good quality.

  29. 29.

    satby

    December 22, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    @John Cole: Awesome!Thanks, it’s my favorite color, and the woodwork in my house is also dark. Now that I have a preview of how great it will look I want to get that too!

  30. 30.

    Aleta

    December 22, 2016 at 7:37 pm

    @John Cole: The name sounds like a bad moon rising (soon for the US I mean). Not the color though–I like very much.

  31. 31.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    @John Cole:

    It’s a great color. Very close to Benjamin Moore Soft Pumpkin, which a friend just painted their living room, and it’s wonderful to live with. Orange is the new gray.

  32. 32.

    debbie

    December 22, 2016 at 7:39 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    That’s his ear you see, with a shadow from the light.

  33. 33.

    Aleta

    December 22, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    @John Cole: Oh, OK thanks! Such nice floors.

  34. 34.

    raven

    December 22, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    @laura: Here’s a page about Sears homes from my home town.

  35. 35.

    Aleta

    December 22, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    @laura: We have a Seas Roebuck house on my block. It’s cute, has a swoop in front.

  36. 36.

    raven

    December 22, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    @John Cole: I’m so relieved you didn’t use the manufactured flooring!

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    @laura:

    Those DIY houses were so popular that Buster Keaton made a short comedy about trying to build one.

    I think John’s house is a “real” house built Craftsman style, though, not a kit house. I think those were usually 1-story bungalows and he has a 3-story house.

  38. 38.

    JustRuss

    December 22, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    @satby: I like that Orange too. Are we sure Cole picked it out himself?

  39. 39.

    Mary G

    December 22, 2016 at 7:45 pm

    @John Cole: Loving the bedroom yellow. Thanks for linking to those Valspar color pallettes; I have been looking at them and dreaming.

  40. 40.

    raven

    December 22, 2016 at 7:47 pm

    I’ve spent the better part of the day putting hemp rope in the cracks of our heart pine floors. I’m not sure how it’s going to turn out but it’s worth a try.

    Bohdi has been diagnosed with a cervical doc problem so we are doing crate rest and laser therapy. While we were there I asked the vet to look at the big lump on Lil Bit’s face and now we are going to have it removed and biopsied. Along with the continuing saga of my bride and her broken wrist we are fucked up.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    @Baud:

    Um, no offense.

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:48 pm

    @raven:

    People here complain about having to assemble IKEA furniture — imagine how much they would complain about assembling a whole house! ?

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2016 at 7:51 pm

    @debbie:

    Wow. I’m usually quite good at optical illusions, but I’m just not seeing this.

    But okay, whatevs, if John wants to have scary clowns grouting his bathroom….

  44. 44.

    raven

    December 22, 2016 at 7:51 pm

    @Mnemosyne: The parts were high quality back then!

  45. 45.

    Iowa Old Lady

    December 22, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    Your house is becoming beautiful.

  46. 46.

    mai naem mobile

    December 22, 2016 at 7:56 pm

    The flooring is beautiful. And it looks installed correctly with straight lines and all.
    The current outline of the done grout in the shower looks like am outline of Edward Snowden.
    Bathroom looks good too. If you’re doing another bathroom use bigger tile = fewer grout lines = easier cleaning.

  47. 47.

    dmsilev

    December 22, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    @Mnemosyne: There was a story a year or two back about Ikea being involved in a project to develop pre-fab housing setups in Sweden. You can imagine the jokes about how the houses came in a bunch of flat-pack cardboard boxes and were assembled using a single Allen wrench.

  48. 48.

    raven

    December 22, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    I wonder if the shower is a walk-in? Our is and has a glass wall. It’s great but you have to squeegee it every time you shower.

  49. 49.

    rikyrah

    December 22, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    looks great, Cole.???

  50. 50.

    debit

    December 22, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    @Steller: Seconding.

    John, it’s looking great. I bet you can’t wait for it to be over with so you can move in and enjoy.

  51. 51.

    MomSense

    December 22, 2016 at 8:12 pm

    Hey my bedroom blue is very similar to your bedroom blue. A bit of a grayed blue? I love it. Looks great in sunshine and in winter, too. It’s also a very soothing color.

    House is starting to shape up and soon it will be home.

    ETA. What color is the living room?

  52. 52.

    debbie

    December 22, 2016 at 8:12 pm

    @raven:

    Don’t use those shower sprays. They’re great on tiles, but they etch glass.

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    mai naem mobile

    December 22, 2016 at 8:16 pm

    John, you should put a handicapped bar outside the shower. With you being accident prone and the issues you have with your shoulder it would be a good idea and it would be cheaper to get it done now because the paint/drywall whatever can be fixed if it gets damaged during installation .

  54. 54.

    raven

    December 22, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    @debbie: We just squeegee the glass, no spray.

  55. 55.

    Another Scott

    December 22, 2016 at 8:33 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Our brains are funny at pattern-recognition.

    As JC said above, you’re looking at the right-back “corner” of his head. He’s looking almost straight down. Just to the left of the black “double-lump” at the edge of the image (glasses earpiece and shadow) is a wrinkle on the back of his head/neck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  56. 56.

    chris

    December 22, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: First thought, O god is that a BODY PART?

  57. 57.

    Lizzy L

    December 22, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    John, the house looks great. I love the colors.

    I want to recommend you put a horizontal handicapped bar inside the shower. I have one, and it gives me great peace of mind to know that I can grab it if I slip. If you want to put one outside, fine, go ahead, do that too, but more people slip inside the shower stall than outside it.

  58. 58.

    Anne Laurie

    December 22, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    @raven:

    While we were there I asked the vet to look at the big lump on Lil Bit’s face and now we are going to have it removed and biopsied.

    Our 15lb, almost-15-year-old rescue Zevon had a fast-growing, lemon-sized lump removed from the back of his head last summer. Fortunately it turned out to be just a lipoma, which the vet says are common in older dogs… ‘particularly poodles and cocker spaniels’. Hope Lil’ Bit has the same luck!

  59. 59.

    J R in WV

    December 22, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    That flooring does look good.

    So does the shower tile, your buddy is doing a great job, that’s all such picky detailed work, finish work.

  60. 60.

    raven

    December 22, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Yea, we’ll see. This is weird, below her ear but I know they are often just old dog things.

  61. 61.

    chris

    December 22, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    Looking good. When’s the housewarming?

  62. 62.

    geg6

    December 22, 2016 at 8:54 pm

    Floors are spectacular!

  63. 63.

    Eric S.

    December 22, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    That’s looking awesome, JC. I’ve been in my condo 8 years and still have no idea what to do with it. I get complete decision overload when ever I start thinking about it.

  64. 64.

    schrodingers_cat

    December 22, 2016 at 8:55 pm

    @MomSense: Mustard.

  65. 65.

    Eric S.

    December 22, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    @grumpy realist: I’m in Lakeview in a nearly 100 year old building. Closets are pretty tiny.

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2016 at 8:59 pm

    @Another Scott:

    Thank you, that’s useful. I can almost, kind of see it, but for me it’s one of those illusions that you can grab onto for a split-second and then it’s gone again. Very weird.

    But I’ll take the word of everyone who sees the hard-working grout-installing bald guy with glasses. If he’s a friend of John’s, he’s okay by me.

  67. 67.

    MomSense

    December 22, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Perfect!!!!

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 22, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    @chris:

    First thought, O god is that a BODY PART?

    I know!!!

  69. 69.

    Gvg

    December 22, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    Did you check the tile wet soapy how slippery? Do it. Our latest house turned out to have slippery shower tiles which we didn’t know till we moved in. All tile is a little slippery but this kind looks ordinary and turned out to be difficult. We intended to move and didn’t bother to change it and now it’s been 10 years. The next time if the tile is slippery it gets ripped out as soon as we have cash again and grab bars put in no matter what. It’s tiresome to have to be careful every night for years and I am getting older.
    No threshold showers you could get a wheel chair or walker in are also worth planning and installing. My younger sister was in a wheel chair for over a year trying to heal an ligament tear then surgery in her 30’s from a fall. You look at things diffently after a year of helping. We have also had handicapped friends we wanted free to visit. Wide doorways to bathrooms are also worth planning.
    If the tile is slippery in real life use, get rid of it now. There are tiles that aren’t and they all look alike. You have to ask. It’s just the floor I think.

  70. 70.

    opiejeanne

    December 22, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I like his house but I really don’t see Craftsman or Arts and Crafts when I look at his house, I don’t see the details that both of the Craftsman houses I owned had (and one of mine was built in the 20s on the cheap as a spec house). It’s missing a built-in buffet which is a common feature, I didn’t notice “picture molding” at the ceilings (not sure, maybe it was there), and the porch is all wrong.
    It looks like mostly a mixed-style farmhouse to me, using some of the period trims but not necessarily the esthetics of the Craftsman style, and even utilizing a little bit of Victorian trim if I’m not mistaken about what look like rosettes on that door-frame that leads to the attic from the 3rd floor bedroom.

  71. 71.

    opiejeanne

    December 22, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    @John Cole: Your house is looking really great, and I love the new floors.

  72. 72.

    Lizzy L

    December 22, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    @raven: My 13 1/2 year old Belgian shepherd mix has bunches of the damn lumps, including one really big (bigger than fist-sized) lump over his right ribs — all lipomas, my vet says.They don’t bother him and they’re not dangerous. I hope Lil Bit’s are no thing and that everything goes smoothly with the biopsy.

  73. 73.

    MomSense

    December 22, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    @raven:

    Oh Raven I’m so sorry that all of this is happening to you. Sending my best wishes for all of you. Hoping that your bride, Bohdi and Lil Bit all recover fully and quickly. And you be careful!

  74. 74.

    raven

    December 22, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    @MomSense: Lizzy L

    Thanks ya’ll, I wish all this shit was happening to me!

  75. 75.

    mainmata

    December 22, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    ey o interested in your restoration since we have slowly been restoring an 1896 Shenandoah Valley farmhouse and land only 18 miles from W Va since 2012 that had been trashed (methers). We used a different palette and used local stores to buy used but good condition kitchen appliances. Where we bought state of the art was the HVAC because there wasn’t any. Good savings.

  76. 76.

    opiejeanne

    December 22, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    @laura: This one is the closest to John’s house that I can find, but it’s not his house.

    Silverdale from Sears

  77. 77.

    opiejeanne

    December 22, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    @Mnemosyne: This is a classic Craftsman house: Craftsman house
    John’s looks very different from that, at least to me.

  78. 78.

    opiejeanne

    December 22, 2016 at 9:37 pm

    @raven: And they hired local carpenters most of the time.

    There was one near a house of ours. It was a cute little house, emphasis on the “little”. I remember my dad laughing at it, saying that most of the people putting them together shouldn’t have been the ones putting them together.

  79. 79.

    opiejeanne

    December 22, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    @dmsilev: We saw one at the IKEA in Orange County when we lived there. It was tiny and seemed expensive for the square footage. I think that store was in Costa Mesa.

  80. 80.

    Mnemosyne

    December 22, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    @opiejeanne:

    Those are all bungalows, but there’s more than one style of Craftsman house. John’s looks a little closer to a “foursquare,” which is more common on the East Coast.

    If he posts more pictures of the entrance to the living room, you’ll see it — it has that curve and point at the top of the doorway/entrance that you get with Craftsman. But East Coast Craftsman went a slightly different direction than West Coast because of climate differences. You don’t need those high rooflines to diffuse the heat in West Virginia like you do in California.

  81. 81.

    CaseyL

    December 22, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    It looks gorgeous! The rooms are delightful with their sorbet colors, all cool and creamy. Yes, it’s all horribly expensive – but the quality materials and quality workmanship mean it’ll last.

    I’m curious about those 3rd floor bedrooms; are they a bit on the small side, or do they just look small because they’re up under the curved roofline? I imagine them as warm cozy places to curl up with a book, or watch/listen to rain fall. Quilt covered daybeds with a lamp at each end and a critter to cuddle.

  82. 82.

    rikyrah

    December 22, 2016 at 10:01 pm

    @Gvg:
    excellent advice.

  83. 83.

    John Weiss

    December 22, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    John,

    Good show!

    When I rebuilt my Craftsman house in Dallas, it took me the better part of 30 YEARS! You lucky son-of-a-buck! It only took you a year or so!

    Whelp, I’m proud of my accomplishment and you should be proud of yours. I only mention one of my travails (how would you like to be stoned on LSD and catch yourself on fire under your house, for one) only to encourage you.

    Too bad you can’t be my neighbor in lovely SW Oregon by the sea.

    jw

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    MomSense

    December 22, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    @raven:

    You’re one of the good ones, Raven.

  85. 85.

    seaboogie

    December 22, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    Dibs on the blue room on the 3rd floor – it looks so cozy and peaceful. Also love the more modern ceiling fan choices you’ve made (from other pics) to go with the existing ones. Can’t wait to see the pics of the kitchen after tomorrow’s installation.

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    December 22, 2016 at 11:43 pm

    Not even functional and already sharing a shower. How post-modern and hip.

    Sure the flooring isn’t pink oak?

    :)

    New floors will be an incentive to keep dogs’ nails trimmed. When it comes to a bath mat, suggest going with memory foam. Lots of brands and styles; have found the kind with a tight honeycomb pattern the most comfy and durable. (Not necessarily recommending the purple as linked, there are dozens of colors available.)

  87. 87.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    December 23, 2016 at 12:21 am

    I know that it’s a painful process, and that you’re feeling beaten down by the cost – but that’s looking pretty damn good. You’ve got a home to be proud of.

  88. 88.

    Amir Khalid

    December 23, 2016 at 12:44 am

    Waves. “Hey, everyone! I’m fine!”

  89. 89.

    Raoul

    December 23, 2016 at 12:46 am

    Nitpicky, but I implore you, JC: Do not use quarter round on the baseboards! Use base shoe. Quarter round sticks out too far and makes things like dressers annoyingly far from the wall. NOw, maybe you said quarter round but will go to the lumber yard and buy base shoe. I think that’s not that unusual. But I’ve owned two old houses that had quarter round and I ripped the shit out of the second one because that isn’t the right product for the job!

    End rant.

  90. 90.

    Raoul

    December 23, 2016 at 12:48 am

    Hm. Posted less than one minute ago, but cannot edit comment at all. None of the usual edit feature showing up. So, typo stays!

    G’night, all.

  91. 91.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    December 23, 2016 at 1:03 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Good to hear it.

  92. 92.

    NotMax

    December 23, 2016 at 1:07 am

    @Amir Khalid

    Howdy, stranger!

  93. 93.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 23, 2016 at 1:14 am

    @Amir Khalid: Good to “see” you, sir.

  94. 94.

    Anne Laurie

    December 23, 2016 at 2:06 am

    @Amir Khalid: Welcome back!

    (Yes, we worried, just a bit.)

  95. 95.

    opiejeanne

    December 23, 2016 at 2:45 am

    @Mnemosyne: Ok, thanks; I know about Prairie and the other styles but I always think of bungalow as The Craftsman.
    I have thought all along that his house looked like a farm house crossed with a Four-Square.

  96. 96.

    opiejeanne

    December 23, 2016 at 2:46 am

    @Amir Khalid: I’m so glad you’re fine! We’ve been missing you.

  97. 97.

    opiejeanne

    December 23, 2016 at 2:48 am

    @Raoul: I hate shoe-cap. It looks like the 1950s.

  98. 98.

    NCSteve

    December 23, 2016 at 10:14 am

    Got any realtors dropping off cards and sending letters suggesting now is a great time to sell yet? Because, seriously, you may want to at least listen to what they have to say about profit potential before you move all your shit and it becomes a “fuck off! I’ll move yet again after they cart my decaying corpse out of this place” thing.

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