New Year, New Pictures

I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe New Years!  We kept it pretty low key around here.  Of course, it's been a few days since I posted last, meaning that there is lots for you to see!


There used to be a side entrance to the house that basically everyone used.  I could probably count on one hand the number of times I used the front door to the house, prior to construction.  As you may or may not remember, that side door was closed up and will now be part of the wall of the kitchen.  Since the side door is used so often though, there is a new entrance to the house through the garage.  Meaning: a doorway had to be cut in the garage and a new "hallway/entryway" had to be built.  This new entry will lead into the kitchen.  After the walls were put up last week {see last post} they were able to frame this little hallway.

The is the hallway as seen from the "kitchen".  You can see the door on the left side into the garage.  There will also be a little coat closet in the corner between the garage and the kitchen - sort of where the ladder is.  Clearly it's going to be well lit with the two windows.

Here's the hallway from the outside

It's kind of hard to see, but the gap between the garage and house that is concrete and wood used to be the doorway

Here are a few pictures of the back of the house and side of the house too.

This is the side of the house I typically don't show.  The bay window the dining room if that gives you a better reference point.

With a sky like that, you can't tell me my Grandpa isn't watching over this renovation. 

The back/side of the house.  See those little windows in the new concrete?  That's where they'll be pouring the basement floor from.

There is more progress since these were taken, but they are in route to me via pictures messages as I type.  Hopefully they will be posted later tonight or tomorrow.

So it Begins.

Good News: The semester is over!  Meaning I now have tons of extra time to get you all caught up on the happenings with the house construction.  I am going to split this up in a few different posts so it's not only sequential order but also is not completely overwhelming.  You're welcome.


So first things first, the last time I posted there were two pictures of the first two days of official construction.  They were tearing off the back room of the house and digging the new part of the basement.  I guess that's where I will begin with the new pictures then.  Sorry if I repeat myself.

Chopping off the back of the house.  So the room that was taken off was originally porch that was turned into a room.  The room really is gone in this picture, it's just a little confusing given that there is still a brick wall there

This is probably a better view of the room removal.  The brown wall on the far side used to be the wall/entrance to the back of the house

Another view, you can see all the different layers of roof here.  They had to replace it a few times when my mom was growing up in order to make the incline less severe

If you think the backyard looks messy and construction-y here, just wait!!

Why yes, there is someone standing on the roof.  We've had lots of workers at the house, they have been awesome.  There has also been a ton of construction equipment

This is the view from the dining room out the back.  That doorway was from the kitchen into the back room.  How crazy is this?

Messy, messy

So that's how he got on the roof!

Cleaning up a bit.  We've gone through a few dumpsters...

The end result for the day.  now you can see the doorway and stairs a bit better.  It's crazy to think that in about six months, a picture taken of this same location will show the kitchen.

This is Olive.  She is a big help with all remodel decisions.  As you can see, here she is guarding the pictures of how the new house will look.  

Well this is the end of post number one of a million in the next few weeks.  I am going to attempt to have at least one new post daily for the next week or so until I get caught up on everything.  Keep in mind, these pictures were from October 25th.  We have come incredibly far since then.

Cheers!