{"id":126,"date":"2014-12-14T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/?p=126"},"modified":"2015-09-25T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T00:54:09","slug":"request-for-remodeling-ideas-some-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/uncategorized\/request-for-remodeling-ideas-some-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Request for Remodeling Ideas (& some answers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got the following request for info from a resident. \u00a0Following it is my response and some photos of what we’ve done. \u00a0I’ll be happy to post any other answers people want to share!<\/p>\n

I’ve lived at Canal Place One for almost 3 years.\u00a0 I’ve fixed and upgraded several things so far.\u00a0 I am thinking of my next project.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

When I was looking, I remember seeing some pictures of some upgrades people had done to their apartments.\u00a0 Specifically to the kitchen.\u00a0 I saw an arch way to the kitchen and then over by the refrigerator another arch way to the living\/dining area.\u00a0 I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share some dimensions on that and if there were any challenges to moving any of the electric on the wall between the kitchen and the living\/dining area.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another thing I was looking at recently is the upstairs hall to the bedrooms (don’t ask me why I started thinking about this).\u00a0 If you notice, there is a box out of the column in the hallway and the box out juts out into the hall.\u00a0 Eventually, I want to get new carpeting for upstairs so I am planning ahead.\u00a0 If I could capture some more space up there, then I might be willing to mess with this AND I would rather look at a nice column as opposed to the box out.\u00a0 I noticed that there is nothing in that box out except the column.\u00a0 If you get a flash light and look in there, in my case the column is still painted but I’m sure it would be an easy thing to strip that paint off.\u00a0 The next thing I was wondering<\/em> was why is it that they brought the wall all the way out to the edge of the beam?\u00a0 Again, I think this is wasted space.\u00a0 Has anyone ever reworked this area?<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Thanks.<\/em><\/div>\n
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We didn’t just open up that hallway wall, we opened up the one in the loft too.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The wall in the hallway was fairly straightforward and not only gained us generous floor to ceiling bookcases but actually widened<\/em> the hallway by an inch at the same time. \u00a0The loft wall was trickier and the shelves had to work around ductwork and plumbing (at the left of the photo above you can see the gap where the ductwork forces a break in the shelving). \u00a0I believe the original contractor simply boxed everything in to keep costs down; boxing was faster and cheaper than making detailed use of the space and it saved him from stripping the paint and graffiti off the columns. I’ve also been told that the bottom floors of the building have metal columns rather than the prettier wood ones.<\/div>\n
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When we redid the kitchen, we didn’t open up the wall to the living room but we did add a stained glass window (BTW, any time you open a wall, I believe Lowell requires a permit). \u00a0Our contractor didn’t have any trouble shifting the wiring to the side to allow for the opening. \u00a0If you were opening the whole wall you’d have to actually move the thermostat rather than just the wiring.<\/div>\n
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To anyone considering remodeling: Please do make sure you get any needed permissions from the Association and permits from the city before any major remodeling. \u00a0Check with Cathy if you’re not sure. \u00a0While it may sound intrusive, it’s actually for everyone’s protection\u2014and so we don’t have any do-it-yourself catastrophes that damage property and drive up insurance!<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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I got the following request for info from a resident. \u00a0Following it is my response and some photos of what we’ve done. \u00a0I’ll be happy to post any other answers people want to share! I’ve lived at Canal Place One for almost 3 years.\u00a0 I’ve fixed and upgraded several things so far.\u00a0 I am thinking … Continue reading Request for Remodeling Ideas (& some answers)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remodeling","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}