Tag: Renovation

All filled in on Flickr.This was the door in the living room to the solar heating room/faux greenhouse area in the front of the...

The last side, as it turns out - these last little unsided bits are all that remains of the siding - and when the...

That’s what we said when we came home to find the front face of the house is completely sided. After several months of having...

Quite excited, if the man in question is me.

No siding yet, but the exterior is very nearly done. The white trim was trickier to install than it might look - it’s actually...

There’s lots of action in the house these days. We’ll start with upstairs: The construction team has installed all the windows and finished all...

This is just framing, really - we're having the new stair treads cut for us. But it's cool to see the new staircase frame in place.

Tonight my cat was on the roof. Literally, not figuratively.

er, I guess you already did. This was a bedroom wall, with the staircase to the second floor on the other side. This was...

So the contractor comes in this afternoon to give me the daily update on our renovation project, and he’s telling me about the windows...

Our team has been on a roll. The second floor has been boarded and Tyvek-ed; all it needs now are shingles and the roof...

The second floor frame is in place but the roof isn’t. So when the forecast called for rain, our contractor put giant blue tarps over the whole house. From the inside, it looks like we live underwater; from the outside, it looks like the artist Christo came by our house to do a project.