Siding color options available that we are deciding between for the addition. Which do you like?
Narrowing down the options to Iron Grey, Moss, and Timber Bark.
We are thinking the Iron Grey, hard to see, but it's the color above.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Color Options For Addition
Siding color options available that we are deciding between for the addition. Which do you like?Narrowing down the options to Iron Grey, Moss, and Timber Bark.We are thinking the Iron Grey, hard to see, but it's the color above.
House Held Up by Toothpicks - Part II
Some more photos from when we went over today. Looks like they worked yesterday and dug out the rest of the crawl space and our old basement. I am kindof scared to walk around upstairs now!
Saturday, February 14, 2009
A House Held Up by Toothpicks - Part I
Demolition is really in full force now - and excavation! Do not let the following pictures alarm you. These suppors holding up the house are there so that the roof is held up, and doesn't cave in - the brick walls are sturdy and a new foundation is will be poured supporting the brick and allowing us a nice sized basement. Our plans for the basement include room for guests to stay, bathroom, art studio, and a tv/movie watching lounge area.
It was pretty crazy going over to the house after work Friday to see it in this state! The digging commenced on Wednesday, it's hard for me to believe. We went over Wednesday night with instruction from our contractor to be careful there were holes and wires poking up everywhere in our backyard - to our surprise, we were the people with a giant pit you have to be careful not to fall into! Walking through the house. . . there were big X's on all of the walls that were coming down and drawings on the adjacent walls showing where supports were to temporarily go. Friday, many of those walls were gone, and there is a hole where the staircase to the basement used to be. The entire back wall of the house is gone, and yes, that is a tarp you see covering it in the photos below. It reminds me of a Galveston beach house - maybe after Hurricane Ike.
Jake was getting excited running around in the giant hole that will be our new basement as you can see in the photo above. A tunnel is being created big enough to drive a Bobcat under the house.
These wood posts are holding up the house for the weekend. Next week they will dig the rest of the crawlspace out and pour foundation for the basement and support. A structural engineer has okayed all of this mind you.
No more interior walls in the main living area where they used to separate the front sitting room from the dining room and the dining room from the kitchen.
Before the tarp was up over the back of the house, you could see straight through in this photo to the alley - it was snowing, it was a strange sight. Nick saw this, not me.
They filled this roll-off dumpster with so much brick that the driver's truck could not pick it up...there are now two of these in our front yard and the brick will have to be evenly distributed between them.
It was pretty crazy going over to the house after work Friday to see it in this state! The digging commenced on Wednesday, it's hard for me to believe. We went over Wednesday night with instruction from our contractor to be careful there were holes and wires poking up everywhere in our backyard - to our surprise, we were the people with a giant pit you have to be careful not to fall into! Walking through the house. . . there were big X's on all of the walls that were coming down and drawings on the adjacent walls showing where supports were to temporarily go. Friday, many of those walls were gone, and there is a hole where the staircase to the basement used to be. The entire back wall of the house is gone, and yes, that is a tarp you see covering it in the photos below. It reminds me of a Galveston beach house - maybe after Hurricane Ike.
Jake was getting excited running around in the giant hole that will be our new basement as you can see in the photo above. A tunnel is being created big enough to drive a Bobcat under the house.
These wood posts are holding up the house for the weekend. Next week they will dig the rest of the crawlspace out and pour foundation for the basement and support. A structural engineer has okayed all of this mind you.
No more interior walls in the main living area where they used to separate the front sitting room from the dining room and the dining room from the kitchen.
Before the tarp was up over the back of the house, you could see straight through in this photo to the alley - it was snowing, it was a strange sight. Nick saw this, not me.
They filled this roll-off dumpster with so much brick that the driver's truck could not pick it up...there are now two of these in our front yard and the brick will have to be evenly distributed between them.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Farewell Old House
Demo is going full force over at our new place. The dumpster arrived Friday (sorry neighbors) creating quite the eyesore in our side yard. Nick and I walked over today to see what progress had been made. The trim, kitchen cabinetry and wainscotting were the victims. There was one old pamphlet from 1969 sitting out that had been found in some crook or cranny. I felt a little sad! I have debated what we are doing with the house with Nick over and over, and with others as well. . . are we ripping the heart and soul out? Will all the character be gone? Our plan is to modernize the interior, no more mis-match this and that all over the place painted with 20+ coats of paint, but a brighter, fresher, newer, cleaner place to live. I hope we're doing the right thing. . . I will admit, I am one of the worst decision makers, I second guess everything, but it's too late now. Hoping the final result is worth it.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Ikea Kitchen
Here are some photos of Steph and I exploring the ikea kitchen we will be installing in the house. And photos of the old kitchen as a reminder! The wall you see of existing cabinetry will be where the sink, stove and counterspace are with open shelving of walnut above, and a white chicklet tile covered wall. There will be an island in the center with a walnut top and sides, and on the other side of the kitchen that you cannot see, several tall cabinets for pantry and storage along with the fridge. The back door will become french doors, and around the corner there will be the laundry area and doorway into our master bedroom.
Good News!
We had some good news today! After posting this sign in our yard for 10 days, not sure if you can see the flourescent pinkness of it, we had no complaints from neighbors about doing a rear addition that violates the side setback under code. We had to put this sign up for a review period to let everyone in the neighborhood know that we were building a non-conforming structure - the addition behind our house. I had seen white signs like this, and was very surprised to see that ours would be bright pink, yikes. But so far so good as far as the complaints go - if someone had said something, we likely would not have the opportunity to build the master bedroom and bathroom and basement addition as planned. Send some good energy our way though, people can still submit comments for a couple more weeks. The night we went to post the sign in our yard we discovered a busted pipe gushing water into our basement - 1" deep - which we had to shop-vac out right after Nick's company holiday party. Who knew negative 17 degree temperatures with a hole into the crawl space could cause such a thing?
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