We worked on the house!

We are having a little spurt of work going on, just a little one.  We have needed to wrap the outside to keep it from rotting out there.  So this is pictures of that and a little bit of framing.

 Here's Bryan (we still work him like a dog) closing up some old window openings that are going to change.  This is the west side. (above)

 This is the back, or north side.  This shows the new opening for a future double door or window/door combination.  And there's a small window opening in the bathroom that will be in the back corner.

Here is the west side a day or two later with all the new window openings.  The upper is boarded shut from the inside.

 Here is a shot of those windows and the front of the house too, from the inside.  I'm standing upstairs in the "loft".

Beginning to wrap on the west side.

 Yes, I work too. (Bryan wasn't there!)

Another shot from the inside.  Straight forward you can see where the steps going upstairs start.  To the left will be the living area.  I am standing in the would be kitchen.

At this point we have the lower portion of the west side and back wrapped up.  I don't think I took a picture of the back.  We are framing the window openings where they need to be as we go.  And here you can see a new wall famed up dividing the stairs from the rest of the house.  Hopefully soon there will be a wood stove in from of that wall on the main floor.  We plan to put up a rock wall that will act as a type of radiant heat.

This is upstairs where a bedroom/office loft will be.



the basement has a window!

I'm so thrilled to be posting about a basement window. Do I have a boring life, I mean getting excited over a window, I guess it's because we plan to start our family's country life out in this very basement. Anyway, hun found this window at Menard's for less than regular price because it was some one's special order mistake! It really is the perfect window for this space and it is a good quality window too. We even recycled some of the floor joices that we were removing from upstairs. Woohoo! *recycle and reuse*. We are soooo green. Keep checking back, the bargains have been rolling in, I'm going to go take pictures of them and more progress.

new framing

This shows some new framing in the back of the upstairs. The roof was sagging badly so Bruce "beefed it up" a little bit.