Status Report – Details

Hello!

That’s been a while, again..  We’re still here and keep working on things but really we’re down to details and progress is pretty slow.  We got baseboard and more trim, all fir and all of it needing a few coats of Benite and polyurethane so it takes a bit of time to get it ready.  We also built our garden boxes to start growing our own veggies, wish us luck on that one..  Otherwise, we’re slowly working on details like lighting, shelving and other things that make a house a home 🙂

We’re also making sure to find time to enjoy the spring weather and sunsets in nearby Golden Gardens!

On to pictures, all taken with our 35mm manual focus “oldie” lens, enjoy!

Update – Long Overdue!

Wow, over a month with no posting, guess we were hit with some renovation fatigue..  We didn’t do that much over the Holidays and slowly started picking things up again in January.  Mostly finishing trim, cleaning up, unpacking, organizing and cleaning up some more..

Snapshot

Just a quick one, we’ve been taking some time to enjoy our home as opposed to building it 🙂  We found out that we like our kitchen, a lot!  And that the house makes a great home!

Oh yeah, we also got doors, shiny new colorful barn doors!  

Status – Week 14

Since most of the significant and messy work is done, this is now more of an update on how the different rooms and spaces are slowly being finished.  This week, for obvious reasons, the focus was on kitchen and bath.  Mike got going on the maple counter and sink cut-out while Jon kept going on the final tiles in the bathroom.

Status – Week 8/9

Well, it looks like we’re not going to keep up on our weekly updates so this will be a (quick) summary of the activities of the past 10 days or so.  First and foremost, we have completed insulation which only took a day and have started sheetrock!

Status – Week 6 + Windows!

The big news this week is that the windows arrived!  A lot more is going on in a mad dash to get ready for framing inspection, insulation and sheetrock.  This could turn into a long post…

Status – Week 4

Whew, time flies when you’re keeping busy!  A lot has happened since our last posts, but in all honesty there is not a lot that makes for interesting visual progress..  As we mentioned in our previous post, Mike is spending a good amount of time trying to line up the perfectly level and plane new frames with the not-so-perfect existing structure. Without going into too much detail, a lot of it ultimately comes down to, lots of shimming, compromising, a little give and take, and that is something we expected with a house of this age, it’s “quirky” 🙂

Trusses!

This is cool stuff, so it deserves its own post 🙂

When we in the design phase and talked about the addition and matching the existing roof line, Mike opted for prefabricated roof trusses to keep framing labor/material and thus cost down (this was also a pre-requisite for getting a STFI permit, another cost (and time) saver!).

Well today, they arrived… 

The Design!

Our home has a very small footprint (as do most homes in this area) which we like for various reasons, but at the same time functionality goes a long way and it definitely needed a bit of help in that department.

After playing with some initial thoughts to reconfigure the interior to make spaces more open and cohesive, we quickly decided that that was not going to work for us and so we decided to talk to some contractors and design-build firms to see what the options would be to build out the back part of the house.