It’s been a while since I updated so I’ll make a few individual posts to catch up. I had to look back quite far to find where we had left off with the front porch. We had added it back before we had the metal roof put on. Once we had that on we basically …
It’s been a quiet few months here … haha yea right! It’s been quiet on the house progress front only. We’ve had 2 birthdays (one party) for Alex and Evie. We bought a new piece of property (32 acres!) a short drive away and Ryan got a sawmill. The sawmill is related to the property …
Both the office trim project (just installing – still have to paint) and the retaining walls project are done. Lots of good progress pics to show! The office trim finished up installation on Sunday with the doorway caps and crown going up. The chair rail finished up Saturday. The trim looks amazing and now “just” …
The wood shed project was a kind of last minute decision – although it’s been talked about in theory for a couple years. It’s almost done – although we are waiting on the roof materials and there’s a bit more of the siding or soffit to do. Wood is going in, there’s some organization to …
Ryan took his annual work on the house stay-cation. I couldn’t coordinate taking it with him fully because Evie has been home up until 2 weeks ago and with her just starting daycare I was finally able to start working more fully (more focused) just a week ago. I did take 2 days off (and …
The retaining wall project has been moving along quite fast! Mark has been spending lots of weekday time working on the walls and Ryan helped on Sunday as well. The wall looks so great- I love the pattern! I think we’ve decided to wait on the door install till spring so we can order the …
As I mentioned before Mark has been working on some outside projects around here while his tractor is here. The lake front looks amazing with all the clearing he did! As you walk up the side of the house you can see the huge pile of dirt we have going… And the excavation by the …
Some great progress on the house this weekend. Ryan has been working on the built-ins in my office/sewing room (I’m so excited!). The base cabinet pieces are now done. Note the wires – we had to move the outlet that would have been down below/behind the cabinet. Luckily the wires are long enough that they …
First off Ryan got a lot more trim done in the ‘playroom’ – all except the crown molding is done – but we immediately filled the playroom with everything from the ‘office’ which is twice the size of it so I never got a picture and now you can’t see the wainscoting at all. I’ll …
The latest big house project has been hiring a crew to put on a new metal roof (standing seam) and then we had some solar panels installed on the back dormer roof (the flat one). We’ve only had the solar on for a week and of course it was very rainy and cloudy last week …