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August 30, 2021 – Myra, WI – The renovation of the household crafted in 1850 on Decorah Street in Myra, WI is finish. It was a labor of enjoy and madness in accordance to contractor Jerry Zelenka.
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In 1965 the film The Agony and the Ecstasy was introduced about Michelangelo’s obsession to finish the portray of Sistine Chapel ceiling, as it turned all-consuming he is pushed shut to insanity.
Click Here to check out a movie tour of the preliminary tear out
I now know how he felt. Over the past five months our restoration of the 171-yr-old household in Myra has develop into all consuming. Performing 7 times a 7 days at times 10 hours a working day this has develop into own and for a transforming contractor that is under no circumstances a excellent issue.
Any sort of a finances was swiftly thrown out the window (all new) in favor of what the residence “needed.”
While we understood certain matters had to be finished, heating electrical, plumbing etc.
Other issues, skip coat plaster on the partitions, glass block window, sound cherry posts and rails, refinished hardwood flooring (walnut?) and hickory kitchen cupboards with are living edge tops, stain glass windows, just Experienced to be carried out.
There was no other option but to install a clawfoot black-and-white tub in the downstairs lavatory and ceramic tile shower and Cambria countertop in the upstairs.
And who wouldn’t set up antique light fixtures in lots of rooms and custom manufactured base and casing about home windows and doorways. There was only no option about the Chestnut laminate floors in the kitchen and dining place and really do not even get me started out on paint colors for the walls and ceilings. This has grow to be more a get the job done of artwork then a remodeling project.
The good news is, my associate John and my spouse Rebecca were ready to reign me in once in a while and mainly because of them we WILL be offering the dwelling setting up September 1, 2021 (As prolonged as the potential buyers are deserving).
All in all it was a grand obsession and we enjoyed every single minute of it (except the heat, the humidly, the mosquitos and the aches and pains nightly) And I look forward to the future (significantly-more compact venture)
JH Zelenka
Breezen Properties LLC
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