Ahh I’m already getting behind on my updates! We’re on vacation this week at the beach and it is KILLING me to be away from things. I feel like this is a critical week of things getting accomplished, so not being there to see it is so hard! But then again the sound of the ocean is pretty darn distracting…
Last Monday (Memorial Day), we were surprised to find our amazing contractors hard at work on the house! We walked into seeing the back yard through the back of the house…
hello back yard
This pic above is looking from the second front door (which will be removed when the porch gets closed in) toward the back of the house. Straight ahead you see the back wall framed, which is the back wall of the second bathroom; the door straight ahead is what will be the future shallow closet for the office nook. On the left is where a window used to be, and where the second front door will go.
and another view
Here’s that window that was removed (and will be going in one of the walls where the porch is getting closed in…
yes, that window is 7 ft tall
I can’t wait to see the second front door put in place here…
here's the future back door spot
The back yard is full of renovation trash, but you can see the progress – the back of the house is finally getting put back together!
here's all the trash in the back yard
Here’s a closer view of the second bathroom, from the back – can you believe there are solid floors now?!
ahh i can't wait to see this all done!
Some other exciting aspects of day six were that the kitchen floors were fully stripped of the sub-floor:
the kitchen floors are bared!
And they ripped the joists out of the master bathroom since they were so rotten:
some joists were ripped out
So that’s that! Lots of fun demo work – just wait to see Day Seven’s progress!
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Are you getting the same funny feeling with all this rotten stuff.. that it may have been more cost effective to scrape the lot and start over?
Haha certainly a possibility…but then it loses all the charm of an old house! The house is actually in really great condition other than the back wall and bathroom floors, where all the work has been done so far, so it probably looks worse than it really is!
I think what you’re doing is AWESOME! I think preserving the character and rehabilitating this house is actually a huge service to your neighborhood. My parents’ street has had a lot of people come in and knock down homes to put up new ones. The problem is that most of the new homes have a similar look…it’s kind of bland when the neighborhood used to have a mix of colonials, victorians, ranches, and bungalows.