A few more photos

These are the ones we put on the advert. We had rented the place just 25 hours after posting! We had to take down the ad as we were getting too many responses which is nice. I guess Atlanta has too few nice, cheap places.

Pretty much finished

At last!

Just have to get the A/C installed this week and that'll be about it. We had a final push on Saturday to get all clean and painted.

Here's some pics

Bedroom after stripping

Completed bedroom

Living room mid-renovation before the wall was changed

Grim kitchen as we bought it. The sink cabinet was soaked from years of leaks. and underneath was covered in half an inch of a black mold.  The stove leaked and the walls were just concrete render. Not nice. 

Kitchen during renovation. The moldy parts of the kitchen cabinet were removed, as  were  the wall cabinets

Kitchen from the back door during renovation

Kitchen - the other side

Kitchen now with the small walls removed and a fresher look

Hallway into kitchen

Living room as we bought it. All the walls were covered in the thin plywood that's meant to look like wood. No heating, a cheap folding PVC door covered the closet. At least the windows were new and in good shape, but that was about it.

Living  room showing closet and bedroom doors as we bought it. complete with  mildew-y carpet

Living room with the closet door on the right and bedroom door on left.

Living room now. New Fan, lights, floor, etc.

Hall/kitchen as we bought it

Living room and hall towards kitchen. See custom-made shelves in the nook.

Bedroom wall showing the bathroom

Bathroom as we found it. A leak had happened in the bathroom above and caused the ceiling to collapse into the one below.

Old bathroom sink including ceiling debris

During restoration. This was after the bath was removed and the source of the ant-damage discovered. They were nesting in the dirt patch around the drain. I poisoned them, then covered the area with thin-set concrete.

Completed bathroom. Better.

Closet showing smaller closet within. New folding doors.

An aside

So our veggie garden was a bit of a write-off. The varmints took nearly all of the tomatoes, egg plants, zucchini, and pretty much everything but the chiles, and they usually damaged those.

The one thing they didn't yet mess with was this squash. It's an unusual plant in that it grows over a huge area. I think the longest tendrils must be 40 feet, and it goes up trees, fences, anything. It climbed one tree and started to produce a couple of these things:

It's getting on for 5 feet long now. Pretty cool

Flooring

This was a lot harder than i thought it would be. The instructions told that you could just attach the long edges of the strips together, then tap the short edges together. This just made the ends chip and not join squarely so i had to remove a little material then glue each end together. It was a real hassle.

And the floor is not level so i had to level using underlayment in places to absorb the voids. I am not sure it's perfect, but hopefully it'll last. one spot in the closet is not good, but it's a closet so we'll have to live with it.

Much laminate, some on special

The bedrom

Just one more

It was not the last tiling job as we decided that laminate flooring in the kitchen was a bad idea. Here it begins, more to follow.