This is part of our Tiny House, Tiny Bloggers series, in which we turn over Plaster & Disaster to some VERY tiny bloggers to tell their own story of transforming an ugly, old (doll)house into a fresh and modern (doll)home. Follow it from the beginning here.
Disclaimer: Inclusion on this blog is not an endorsement by Plaster & Disaster of the tiny blogger’s methods or design decisions. Plaster & Disaster cannot be held responsible for your terrible decor choices after reading one of their tutorials. All opinions are their own.
Tiny bloggers here! Man, things have been tough in our (doll)house lately! We’ve been living in a construction zone with only our love, faith, and mood boards to see us through.
This tiny house sure comes with big problems. As we shared in our house tour, this is a total fixer upper with some serious work needed – like a new roof (we’re missing half of ours – good thing we’re located in Sage’s spare room where it doesn’t rain a lot!), an entire kitchen and bathroom (the only appliance that came with our house was the toilet paper holder), and some seriously sketchy electical.
What are those: monstrous, oversized christmas lights?!
Editors note: We think they are actually normal-sized christmas lights. The tiny bloggers are just being melodramatic.
They stood out even worse once we had removed the wallpaper, and they even made us wish for builders grade boob lighting. (I know, don’t tell anyone.) They had to go.
Unfortunately, we have tiny hands (even smaller than Donald Trump’s) so it was really tough for us to remove the gigantic lightbulbs ourselves, so we called in a little help from our friends.
We had to remove all of the light fixtures:
This screw driver is either tiny or gigantic, depending on who you ask.
And we had to take all of the old, faulty wiring out of the ceiling so we wouldn’t spontaneouosly combust in the future.
You might think this was easy, but it was super messy and a lot of work. The bad wiring was everywhere!
The biggest challenge was the way the previous owner had installed the wiring, running it under beams through the walls and ceiling. To avoid major destruction of our walls or ceiling, we had to bring in some heavy-duty tools.
We’re generally pretty “do it ourselves” and “by the bootstraps” folks, but we sure were glad to have a safety net for this project.
We also discovered a distrubing fact about our house: the wiring was installed using the same millwork as our door trim!
We can’t decide whether we should be disappointed that this ornate detail is made from such common material, or amazed by the ingenious craftmanship of the house’s original owners. What do you think?
In all, what should have been a pretty easy project ended up taking a while and making a huge mess. We had to call in a professional cleaning service to get it back in shape! We just couldn’t bear the idea of cleaning after all of the hard work we did (holding tools while the full-sized bloggers ripped our house apart).
What a relief to have this project done! While the house isn’t looking beautiful, we think it is already a huge improvement and we’re glad to not be a total fire hazard any more.
Well, that is another tiny step forward on this long journey of (doll)home improvement! We can’t wait to move on to some of the fun projects where we get to actually decorate. Thanks for reading!
xoxo, Tiny Bloggers
lesson learned…don’t ever buy a house that needs re-wiring
Absolutely. That was *way* to much work.