It's the Little Things

Throughout our renovations, there are many small yet tedious things that we attend to. I guess the difference with us vs an investor, is that they would just paint over things, where as we are not only trying to do things neatly and tidily from the start, but we are also trying to fix things that the last owner did. Plus attending to things that have been ignored for over 40 years. Naturally I can see why because this work is TEDIOUS and we spend so much time working on the fine details.

I have added some pictures of things that we have worked on just this weekend, though there is a long list of these kind of things.

We have been patching holes left from screws in the wall, wall edges where the cement has been chipped off, huge dints in the walls from puling out nails that attached the kitchen cabinets to the walls and washing walls that cad collected a thick layer of dust.



The original light switches and power points were still up. These were replaced with "primo" white light switches with added cover panels so you don't see the plastic plugs that cover the screws.


There are six air vents that had been half painted over and had collected so much soot I think they had stopped doing their job from as far back as 1975. After a powerful suck from the vacuum, we then with a small screw, we scraped off much of the caked on paint that the last owner did. Below shows a close up of the filth, and the below shot is a half worked on grate. The difference is phenomenal.