When my dear wife Karen and I moved into A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, the master bedroom came equipped with one gaping hole.
Let the heat out.
At the bottom was where the heat came out. At the top we saw the plug from the mounted TV … in the living room on the other side of the wall.
We lived that way for a couple of months until a trip to Lowe’s.
Ch-cha-changes.
We had done our measuring job. That hole was almost two-feet-square. We found a white vent that fit it, 21×21. (And yes, the new look does include a shift of a dresser from the second bedroom as well.)
Little by little A Bitty Better gets more and more …
What’s the biggest hole in the wall you’ve had in your house? What’s the biggest hole in the wall you’ve ever seen? What would you do with the hole in the wall?
Mark Bialczak 
Looks like your time working in the hardware store was well spent!
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I lived and learned at Lowe’s, yes I did, Elyse. 🙂
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I STILL have a hole behind the antique mirror in my main bath. One day…
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Just keep that mirror in its place, Joey, is what I say. 🙂
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Lookin’ good Little Bro. R U pretty much settled now? I’m in the process of cleaning up this computer after transferring everything (I hope) to my new laptop. Wish me luck on this. I had the right place a couple of days ago, but now that almost everything has been transferred I can’t find the stinkin’ window again. Always my luck, huh? Have a great weekend — and yeah, I’m still alive, just not kickin’ as high now!
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We are settling in one little thing at a time, sis Angie. Good work with the laptop!
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Thanks bro Mark. I’m loving it so far, and if I ever get my WiFi speeded up it will be even better.
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wow, i have an odd vent in the middle of my living room wall, with a grill over it. wonder what he was thinking?
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We’ll never know motive. Oh, mysterious old houses, Beth. 😮
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Does knocking down an entire wall constitute a “hole in the wall?” LOL. The biggest one we’ve had recently was when our wall A/C unit went kaput and hubby had to remove it to put a new one in, which took a few days. He covered it in the meantime with a plug of styrofoam with plastic taped over it.
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That’s a wall in a hole, Kathryn Grace. Ba-da-bing. A plug of styrofoam is always a good fix these days. 🙂
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Our contractor replaced the vent cover in the bathroom, but couldn’t find the right size for the kitchen, so we, too, had a gaping hole. We had run out of time for the repairs, so we told the contractor to just leave it and we would take care of it later. It took a long time to find a vent cover that fit because that hole was an odd size and hubby didn’t want to cut the wall further. He did finally find a cover at either Loews or Home Depot, and it sort of fits but not perfectly. We should have just had the contractor come back and do it. Houses are such fun.
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Too big is better than too small when it comes to those vent covers, I guess, CM. Screw it into the dry wall … My plan, anyway. Oy.
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I believe that’s what hubby ultimately did. In any event, it sure looks better than that gaping hole.
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What was the purpose for the hole to begin with??? Strange? Nice work fixing it Terp! Gatorette
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There were several head-scratchers about this house when we moved in, Gatorette, and the big hole for the small vent was one of them. Thanks for liking our fix. 🙂
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Youtube has how-to videos on drywall repair and painting. Just sayin’…
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Seeing how and getting it right are sometimes a long, strange trip apart for me, Mark. Just sayin’. 😮
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We put a picture up over a hole that once contained a “knick-knack holder” shelf that I foolhardily removed during renos.
Great story, I know…
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It’s all great until you move, Hook. Great answer, I know. 😮
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