Thursday, January 26, 2012

January House Progress

Lots of things have happened since the last house update.  I've got a month or so worth of house progress but I'm also going to give some Before and During photos to keep track of the progress.  The sweet little country house is no longer.  We've made a huge crazy mess of it but the end result will be great. 
Here's a view of the framed up house.  I'm standing just inside the front door looking at the new addition.  Right about where the light on the wall is positioned is where the old house ended.

See the white eves...where the unpainted wood ones start is where we added on. 

Sheetrock has been delivered and the insulation has been added.

Here's a view of what blow in in insulation looks like.  The put up a cheese cloth type fabric around the framing, poke a hole in it, then blow in the insulation.  Kind of cool.  It's definitely not like the old pink stuff that looks good enough to eat until you realize it's itchy and scratch and probably toxic.

Before -  kitchen


During - View of the kitchen window.


Before - family room
Before- fireplace
During - Fireplace
During - View of the family room.  This is part of the original house. 

Emily demonstrating how nice it is to run circles in the dining room

Loooong hallway! 

Before - basement

During - Basement.  We did minimal work down here, but of course had to update  the electrical, plumbing, and patch a bunch of holes left from removing the radiant heat and gas boiler system. 

Ellery's future bedroom.

Emily's future room
We've started fencing in the whole property

Now you can't see the house at all from the road.
Standing in the family room looking at the kitchen

View from the house.  I can't wait to enjoy many more of these!
Before - end of house and carport

During - no more carport now there is a garage at a 90 degree angle

Next up on the project list is to get the house sided, install the awesome fancy garage doors, install interior doors, and start the finish/trim work.  That will take a while but as soon as the trim is finished it's painting time and then comes the fun stuff like flooring, cabinets, and all the stuff I care about.  Whoooo hooo!

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