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One neighbor has a salmon colored house with brown trim, the other next to me has sand color with red trim. The house across the street is a horrible mauve. Other houses on the street are yellows, greens, and greys/neutrals. There’s a baby shit green house and a brick red. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Definitely blue then, if you really are set on colour. Maybe a dark blue? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
No darks. Heat retention. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
If that’s your aim then nothing beats a lovely cream/white 😂. Full disclosure I think most colourful houses look cringey. BUT, knowing that my opinion doesn’t make me right, I think the blue you have there could be nice. You could go lighter blue too. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I mean, a street full of nude/taupe/cream/white houses looks like something out of Vivarium. Do you really live in a neighborhood with little variation in color? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Some houses around me have colour, but I don’t like it. I too live in a 107 year old house in a historic neighbourhood. Mine is cream with charcoal trim and a black tin roof. Neighbour’s 1910 is white with red brick, it’s gorgeous. There’s one house that’s yellow with red trim and I feel stressed and nauseous just look... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I made this just for you 🤣 all of these can be seen from my porch lol
https://preview.redd.it/1v72ft68kvjd1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95f9aa085405196a7ebf11c135fd211579a6b7cc | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
The interior of mine is going to be Japandi style, so mute tones, natural textures and raw finishes will already be a thing.
I’m a crazy plant lady so interior accent colors will be greens. I do find it calming and charming. But I think doing that on the exterior will be bland when the neighborhood is colorful.
https... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Wow! I am honoured! I will say that the architectural style really lends itself to the colour, and those are all fairly coordinated. I live in the PNW so bright colours look wrong in the dreariness. I would still say 2 or 5 for the outside of your house, or maybe a orangey salmon or coral if you like that. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
All that matters is that you like it. I like middle bottom best. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
A full exterior shot would be helpful. Also r/exteriordesign might be more suited to this question. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-21-08 |
So we ripped the stair runner out and found out that the landing is plywood, not hardwood. However, everything else around it is hardwood. We don’t want to put another runner or carpet back. We also don’t want to change the height of the landing.
Do we have any other options? | r/renovations | post | r/Renovations | 2024-19-08 |
Not ideal, but just replace that section of the floor with matching hardwood. It's not a huge area, so it won't break the bank. Your other option is to have a mismatching landing. It comes down to your personal preference on how you want it to look. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Would I have to do anything to the beams under the plywood? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Hello! So I have just moved into a rented property currently undergoing renovations, horrible green carpet to be replaced included! However that is not my main concern. I am more distraught over the fact my landlord has covered up the lovely exposed brick original fireplace here, and replaced it with this horrible date... | r/renovations | post | r/Renovations | 2024-19-08 |
Some wall partition? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Radiator covers are your friend. Otherwise, diy a fake fireplace—you’ll be lucky to have two mantles. https://www.twelveonmain.com/diy-faux-fireplace-ideas/ | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Fireplace screen | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
This is great thank you!! | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
If you have the time and the option, you could check out antique shops and/or thrift stores for a framed piece of artwork that is the right size to lean up against this monstrosity and cover it! | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
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Looks like cork. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
It looks like the early felt-back sheet vinyl.., I mean super-brittle-type felt back. Be aware of asbestos and the adhesive if removing.
If it’s no more than 3 layers, you can lay over top of it. Just patch/skim over it with skimcoat to fill in the “grout” joints if your LVP you select is too thin | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
That’s linoleum. That was a very popular pattern. My parents had that in their house. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Is it smooth? If not put a thin layer of oak to give yourself a better base for lvp | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
That’s old school linoleum which likely has asbestos both in the body and the mastic (glue) that holds it down. Only a problem if it’s disturbed. Putting LVP over it would be a good idea as it would allow you to not disturb it | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
This | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
OMG you just unlocked a core memory of the floor in my grandmother’s kitchen in Daly City, CA. It was exactly this floor, likely laid down in the 70s. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
that's old linoleum with friable asbestos in it and under it. cover it = inexpensive safe way // professional removal = $$$ safest way. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
We have something similar on our back steps. Covering it should be fine, YouTube can help I’m sure.
Regarding the asbestos, assume it’s there and don’t mess with it. There is no minimal threshold for asbestos exposure. My Dad has mesothelioma stage 4 due to it. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Yes you could likely go over it with another flooring, as long as it’s acceptable by the new flooring manufacturer. We had that exact linoleum in our 1978 house that we remodeled during COVID. It took our family, of five, days to remove it. Sometimes it came up in little pieces, other times in larger sheets. It had a l... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Genny up, put on a tyvek suit and respirator, and remove it yourself | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Pretty sure it’s the best selling floor of all-time:
https://retrorenovation.com/2020/03/31/history-armstrong-flooring-pattern-5352-best-selling-20th-century/ | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Very likely asbestos- have same at my house and it is. Covered with heat mat and then tile | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
This floor was in my kitchen growing up. It’s sheet vinyl or linoleum. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Had the exact same linoleum in my kitchen when we remodeled (under 3 other layers of linoleum). I just kept it and laid LVP over top of it. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
linoleum | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
If it's a 1970s house and the flooring feels like plastic, then it's probably vinyl rather than linoleum. That pattern was available in several different colorways, originally in linoleum, and then later in vinyl. We had the yellow and orange vinyl installed in our kitchen when I was a child, sometime in the 1970s. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
My parents that that exact same shit in house I grew up in it is old school linoleum I would tear that that shit out. That house was built in 1975 | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
It’s vinyl flooring, I know because we had it in our kitchen. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
First post here - what a great sub! Looking for some general thoughts here on whether my idea is even worth a shot. I'm trying to move the fridge from where it is currently to the right, by the door. The end goal is to remove the island completely and put a new range where the fridge is currently. My main concern is th... | r/renovations | post | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I think that could be a good idea.
Another is to put it on the other side of the kitchen, like where I see the oven? The only problem is that it's kind of far from the sink. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I think it's gonna feel weird to come in the slider to the side of a fridge. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Put it where you stood taking picture | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Thought about that. But even a counter-depth fridge would stick out and be in the way of traffic there. The doorway to the left leads into what I'm building into a walk-in pantry. So trying to keep that walkway open. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Agreed. That's probably our biggest complaint so far. I intend to enclose the fridge, but there will still be a little wall directly to the right as one walks in. It's actually a swinging door (French door with one side that doesn't open). There were so many dumb compromises with this house that it drives me crazy. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I would but that's actually a doorway leading into the front foyer. Good idea though. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
it is NOT the location of the fridge that is the problem. its that you have ZERO counter space to do food prep at.
I would recommend the following:
https://preview.redd.it/wj4w9syc8tjd1.png?width=844&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ee594206fed929e6f4cf93d869cb1bcf84abc01
This at least gives you prep space behind you when y... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
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Anyone know the process here? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
It's concrete, shined up. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Yeah, except the rebar doesn’t have enough concrete above it, you can see the grid lines on the surface. She gon crack good, polished concrete is the process. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I assumed that was wear marks from old vinyl tiles that were removed. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I’m always jealous of department store flooring. The wear on them is always so perfect. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
You assume correctly. That is not rebar. 🤣 | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Did this in my house. Looks rad. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Its not cheap and it takes maintenance. Household use the maintenance would be minimal and the upfront cost likely close to high end hardwood assuming your placing concrete on grade (no crawlspace). Concrete finishers make quick work of it. I've always wanted to do a house with concrete floors where the concrete runs u... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
This doesn’t answer the question in any way | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
The floor is grinded (ground?) and then polished with a large walk behind concrete polisher typically, to make it smooth and polished
It’s usually then sealed with an appropriate concrete sealing product.
It’s a big job but can be DIYed buy a competent DIYer if they hire the equipment and prepare appropriately. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Oh sorry, gfy, either hire a concrete crew, which will give you a better finish than DiY, or rent a concrete polisher and fuck it up and then hire a concrete crew to fix it for you, at that point paying 4x what it would have initially cost. Is that better? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Is attempting to answer the question better than a paragraph of completely unrelated information?
I would say yes, that is better. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Ok bud | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
What kind of sealer? I have ground and polished the concrete to prep to do this in my basement. I figured I would go to Clemmons Concrete for a sealer but can't decide from there | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Product names will probably vary as I am in Australia
This is an example of a product that works well for internal concrete here
https://www.crommelin.com.au/product/concrete-floor-sealer/ | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Do you have any decent references to DYI for this in Australia? I had looked into it before but there wasn’t a decent consensus in the places I was looking at | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
You mean like https://www.kennards.com.au/diy-advice/get-inspired/diy-concrete-polishing | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Polished concrete | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Yeh i can confirm that's polished concrete but of an old slab that previously had carpet tiles glued to it. I think if it was vynl or laminate, there would be repairs in lines from the flat breaker we use to take the vynl off | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
you can do that too. rent the machine with a diamond disk on the bottom from home depot, and go at it. Just realize it will smooth the surface, but NOT necessarily remove any concrete stains. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
That's not rebar. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Would it make sense to do this in the garage with cars coming in and out? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
sure.
but if it were heavily stained, i might instead go with one of those epoxy sealing paints, with the speckles of color in it. THAT is easily cleanable if there are oil leaks in the future. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Polished concrete is so nice if you live in a hot climate, always cool to walk on. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
It would make sense, look good, and be a good idea until you slip on a puddle and crack your head open. Cars tracking water and snow in on their tires or rain blowing in through a garage door left open would make your garage floor dangerously slick if you went to Walmart floors level of polish, which is why Walmart has... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I was excited to watch the process when they removed the flooring and polished the concrete in my local WM. Envious, too. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Now im curious to see, anywhere on your profile where you might have pics? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-21-08 |
Step 1, scrape floor down to bare concrete.
Step 2, polish with rotary flooring polisher machine.
Step 3, give zero fucks about floor. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-21-08 |
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Is it possible to make the polished floors heated, as well? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-21-08 |
First picture is the paint color I like, the second is the livingroom as is. Obviously I don't have flooring yet 😅 It'll most likely be a warm brown like the ceiling beam, or darker brown like the loveseat trim (input appreciated!!) | r/renovations | post | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Definitely a personal choice. I much prefer lighter walls and I feel your room looks pretty dark already. You need to add more lightning to brighten the space. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I'm looking to update a much older home that hasn't really changed since the 60s. I want to renovate the kitchen and the floors.
I'm seeing on Home Depot's website that they offer not just the materials but also installation services?
Has anyone used Home Depot before? What was your experience? Did you save money or... | r/renovations | post | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Don’t use HD contractors. Especially for something that big. They use the lowest cost contractors and charge you a mark up. There are plenty of horror stories on this sub about it. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Home Depot often has bottom of the barrel contractors. You might get lucky and get a good one, but there are also many horror stories. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
The only good thing about having home depot work on your home, is you get to be an ass to everyone on the job, and they will still kiss your ass. I'd stay away. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Think about hiring McDonalds as a contractor vs a catering company for a wedding as a contractor. Enough said. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
HD doesn’t have any control or input. They just sell your information to a contractor. Been there, done that. Ask neighbors for recommendations instead. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Used home depot for a kitchen remodel. It was a disaster from start to finish. Design was wrong, had to reorder cabinets twice, didn't perform cabinet inspection we paid for, etc. All in all, we were without a kitchen for over 4 months. We did end up not paying anything for the installation, we just paid the cost of ca... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Bought a W/D from Home Depot and had them do the install. They forgot to put the washer drain hose into my drain so I flooded my basement when I did my first wash. Destroyed my Pergo floor. I haven't bought anything from HD since. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
I spent 2,700 for 2 windows... Nicest windows ever but yeah, shit was expensive. The contractors left bits of glass in the bedroom and outside driveway. The contractor ended up saying not to go through HD because he would have only charged 500-550 per window. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Had a door replaced and they sucked on many many levels. The door itself is great, but the installers messed up the measurements, the design, and the install. They reduced the width of my doorway by 2.5” trying to cover their mistake. They faked a call to HD when I called them out on it and they told me this was the... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Exactly! Or they are great at composite flooring but have to take the offered tile job to make income. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Do not do this, way too high and a bad finished product to boot. I used to work for Lowe’s in installed sales and it was a constant shit show and we vastly overcharged | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-21-08 |
Just installed tile backsplash with aluminum tile edging in my bathroom. The walls are textured and not perfectly flat so there are small gaps between the black edging and the wall.
What kind of caulking should I use on the transition?
I was thinking of going off label with something like Dap Dynaflex that is availa... | r/renovations | post | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Areas near water: 100% silicone caulking | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Question, what is that snail for? I’m guessing air freshener or soap dispenser? | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Soap dispenser, I got the same one :) | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
100% nope.
That's a painted wall dude. Paint and silicone looks like ass. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
DAP 230 transparent is an excellent choice.
For any rough or uneven unions like this (example, exterior brick) transparent is always the best choice. Tooling is important too, but when dry it will disappear into the shadow between the materials and practically disappear.
- That wall is painted, so you want to pick a ... | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
Clear silicone will yellow over time.
Whatever you use, mask a clean, straight line so the application is perfect and it will look ok - white or black. | r/renovations | comment | r/Renovations | 2024-20-08 |
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