At the urging of Caleb, we went out and took some pictures today and are updating the blog although it was a busy evening with Ian's birthday party.

A lot has happened to our house remodel over the last couple of weeks. They have finished the new walls, the rough wiring and heating along with hanging the sheetrock. To the right, is a picture of the front of the house with the addition. The white is sytrafoam where they are getting ready to stucco the house this coming week. In the below close up of the front of the house, there will be rock were the external walls are black.

The old kitchen cabinets are being stored on the front porch as we plan to put them in the garage when it is finished.

The next picture is from a shot of the garage from the old garage back door into the kitchen. The left of the picture is the addition to the garage. The floor is a couple of feet lower than the old garage.

This is a view of the new front room on the south side of the house where we have new french doors that have blinds inside of the glass panels.

The next picture is a picture looking east from the old master bedroom showing the siting room that we are adding on to it. There is a door on the east side that connects to the wrap around front door.

You can see that they have hung the sheet rock and begun to tape the joints.

The old middle guest room has been expanded to include the old hallway, so that it will be bigger than before. We have also had ethernet and cable TV wired into this room.

The remainder of the old front room will be a den/office. The refridgerator is temporarily in the office while we endure the construction.

This is a picture from the kitchen looking at towards the north at the new great room. There will be a row of closets along the east wall and the old sliding glass door has been move to the new north wall of the house.

This is a picture looking at the west wall of the great room. There will be a gas fire place in the corner between the doors and the small window. Cable TV, the internet and wiring for surround sound have been put in. The TV will be along the north wall to the right of the small window.

This is a picture just inside the front door. The the right of this picture is the new front room. This picture shows a nitch that has been put in above the new stairs that go downstairs along the wall on the right side of the picture. Behind the nitch is a new coat closet that will have a switch inside to control the outlets outside in the eves that are for the Christmas lights.


Here is another picture looking at the new front room from just inside the front door. In front of the french doors are boxes of joint compound for the sheet rock seams.

Below is a picture of the new stairs from the basement looking up towards the front of the house.

This is a picture of the storage area underneath the new wrap around front porch. Notice it is full of our household belongings right now.

This is picture of the new basement room underneath the new front room looking into the storage area underneath the porch.

Finally, here is where the old basement stairs where. The cable TV and ethernet connect box is shown on the right. Both walls need to remain as they are bearing walls, so this will be a storage area and also contain the new second furnace/air conditioning unit.




This week ought to be interesting as they should start to stucco the outside of the house, hang the sheet rock in the garage and finish the inside sheet rock joints, so they can begin to paint and lay the floor tile next week.