Thursday: January 29, 2009

Mrs. Jan and I looking over the plans trying to figure out the lighting throughout the house.

Trying to get the bricks for the new foundation to match the old granite.

The brick for the new foundation and the new house color. The top color (cedar key) is the exterior trim and the second color (indian river) is the exterior color for the house!

The new addition!! The closest room in the picture is the laundry room, the room in the back right is the master bedroom.

The new addition from the other side of the back yard.

Tuesday: January 27, 2009

Today they put concrete block where the new addition in the back of the house will be.

Wednesday thru Sunday: January 21-25

Andrew made it to Atlanta to see the house! YAY! He loved it, after he got over the shock of how it looks right now!

Mrs. Jan helping us pick out brick and pavers for the new foundation on the back of the house and the front porch. She is so great!!!

The concrete truck came to start pouring the foundation on the new build in the back of the house and the front porch. This was Andrew's favorite part!

Where the new front porch is going to be, it extends to where the footings are.

Getting Andrew's opinion on which pavers he liked. We went with the one on the left.

One of the framers dropped a board through the hall bathroom ceiling. This ceiling didn't even need to be fixed, well i guess it does now!

Standing in the master bathroom this window looks out to where the master bedroom will be. This window will become a case-opening into the master bedroom.

This is the phone "nook" in my hallway. It is staying in the house (being painted though) so we do not want anyone to take it out when they are doing demolition.

Monday: January 19, 2009

Demo inside...

The wall between the kitchen and the dining room has been knocked out and they put an arch

They took down the header and wall between the hallway and the living room.

You can tell where the arch is going to be now between the two rooms.

The rest of Saturday...


There is now a big blue tarp until we get the actual roof on.


Ken, Dad, Jen, I watching the tarp be put on! (Mom's taking the picture!)

Saturday: January 17, 2009

Today they have to finish the roof to the house because it is supposed to rain tomorrow.

What the house looked like after a few hours this morning, getting the dormers in.

From the left of the house.

The left dormer is almost done, you can see the arch in it.

Side view, you can kind of see how the back of the roof is going to look.

View from the backyard.


View from the park across the street, you can kind of tell which one is 2010.

Yesterday was Grandad's Birthday so he came to see the house and then we went to lunch to celebrate. He loved the house! Happy Birthday Grandad!!

Mom and Grandad. (this is in the dining room)

Friday: January 16, 2009

Today they are beginning to put the walls up on the second floor.

First wall upstairs!

Second wall up.

Wall in the back going up.

Standing on the second floor, overlooking the park across the street.

The walls are all coming together upstairs. This is Mary Kathryn coming upstairs!

Dad and I dripping all the faucets so the pipes don't freeze, its supposed to be below 10 degrees tonight!

End of the day with the rafters in place. You can tell now where the dormers are going. Tomorrow they will have the roof almost done!

Thursday: January 15, 2009

Front of the house.

This is the view of the house from the park across the street!

This is the second floor facing the street.

The mess where the backyard used to be!

They took out the original hardwood (from the 40's) in the master bedroom today because it is going to become the master bathroom and will have to have tile. These are the boards underneath the hardwood, you can see down to the basement through the spaces.

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This is where they are taking out the hardwood.

By the end of the day the framers are starting to get the new frame on the house.

Before Construction

Pre-Construction!

This is the day I closed on the house...so exciting!

Andrew and I a few days before the closing.

The front of the house before any construction began.

The house from the backyard.

Wednesday: January 14, 2009
So its looks like a tornado, or to my neighbor, a plane hit my house! Unfortunately neither of these happened and I am actually paying for this damage. the below picture is fromt he upstairs. I am standing in the middle of what will soon be one of my two new rooms. And for the bathroom behind me, it is getting a facelift which will make it look amazing!

This is another view of what will become a wonderful guest bathroom.

So this is the hole currently in my house. As people drove by and asked if were takog the house down to put a new one, I had to tell them I was actually paying for people to destroy it and put huge gaps in it as you can see. The workers said the new roof supports would be up by Saturday.

Another view from inside the hole. I'm actually thinking bout keeping it this way, just seems to give the house some character, as if it does not have enough already!