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| I have just found these very old images from the time when we installed the bamboo floors in the house. The walls were still opened and the freshly exposed beam was still unpainted. |
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| Another area where the walls were opened up and rebuilt was the pantry's corner. Here, the entire corner of the kitchen was rebuilt and a new sliding door was added. On this photo the old kitchen floor is still in place but the upper cabinets are already removed. Back then, was it 2005? we lived without a kitchen for 6 months but it looks like here we still had "half" of it working? (Honestly, it can get pretty soul-draining to have to live like this but we pressed on hoping every day that our house eventually will turn into a beautiful home.) |
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| Another view of the old living room's subfloor. I forgot about the floor lamp we used back then made of a camera's tripod and a clamp. |
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Finally, beautiful, new bamboo floor in
our bedroom. We chose pre-finished bamboo since we already lived in the house
and didn't want to have to deal with the odors and poisons of the finishing
materials.
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| No more iron railing, but the new glass railing wasn't done yet either when this photo was taken. I think we had no railing here for a few years, at least a year and a half... |
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| I will never forget the happiness I felt when I saw this for the very first time after returning home one day. It has been many years but I still get the goosebumps! |
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| Another view of the living room, dining room area. The old deck and its old railing can be seen in the dark. |
