Post #812220 by SouthSeasKat on Sun, Mar 3, 2024 4:08 AM

It finally begins. Renovation team is on site in Mid-March. I have begun demo (stripping anything I can unbolt/unscrew, actually, otherwise leaving it to the professional), and I've had the landscapers out to help me cut down anything I couldn't cut down myself and to take away a bunch of trash.

Originally, I had wanted the eastern most room to be the tiki room because I was going to knock down the wall between the western room and the middle room on the second floor. That wasn't in the budget (neither was opening up the roof, which is a shame, as it is quite high and has beautiful wood work). The entire first floor will essentially be brand new though (it is currently entirely stripped, and I'm living in the rooms upstairs, even set up a kitchenette in my office).

So, that being said, I decided to make the eastern most room into my master bedroom, the western most room my office, and the middle room will be the Tiki room. These rooms are all small (105 square feet), but they have large windows (and the middle and eastern rooms have sliding doors for the balcony outside), but there should be enough room for a small bar and some seating. Due to the house's proximity to the beach (two blocks) and given the abundance of typhoons, fully metal storm doors are available for every large window and sliding doors, and they're black-out when closed, and with the middle room I will only need to close one set of storm doors.

I've stripped the middle room, including the closet, and I'll start work on it while the builder's team is working on the first floor. I'll sleep in the eastern room, and work (I am work from home) in the western room (the office). The walls and ceiling will be painted black and then I'll put up various materials like woven reed material, bamboo, etc. I've got a lot of material left from the previous owners, and even more of it up in the attic, and bamboo is cheap or free here. My current plan is to finish the closet area and put in the fridge and run the bar across the front of sliding doors coming out from the right side of the closet. Then arrange the seating in the remaining area. I may replace the hinged door for a sliding door in order to maximise the available space. Not sure yet. I have plenty of spare sliding doors from the first floor, since it has been gutted. Not entirely sure what I want to do about the flooring.

Totally open to suggestions, this is the epitome of a blank slate.

[ Edited by SouthSeasKat on 2024-03-03 04:08:24 ]

[ Edited by SouthSeasKat on 2024-03-03 04:09:13 ]