After nearly two years of riding my to-do list, countless request for pictures and updates from around the world - we launch our blog to share our progress on our latest. Maybe it was the +12" of snow that fell overnight and 6" more expected before this storm is over...today ended up being the day.
We'll be doing some catch-up on the work we've done since spring of 2013. We spent the first summer here every weekend scraping and staining the exterior with little focus on the interior except for clean-out. Fall of 2013 brought focus on the south ell - jacking timbers, replacing foundations, reframing and getting prepped to eventually pour a radiant floor. Through the winter of 2013-4 with little heat, our contractor worked tirelessly to update and replace all electrical along the way discovering our interior walls were +200 year old timber planks covered with lath and plaster (translation, very hard to drill through). We installed two new bathrooms and plumbed for two more. Spring 2014 found us reconfiguring walls, repairing plaster, deconstructing windows (with original glass) for intense repairs and trying to reclaim a yard that was let-go for more than 25 years. End of April we made the move to "camp" in a part of our house as we rented our last finished project - to better focus on all of the work here. Summer 2014 was a bummer with the sudden and surprise loss of our two beloved Chesapeake Bay litter mates Wrecks and Gracie who we buried in our yard at our now home. The summer also brought a tornado touch down to our close-knit community very tragically killing four people. Fall moved swiftly with an early start to cold temperatures, pushing projects like the radiant floor install and the need to get the new boiler in and running. And now, three weeks away from the end of 2014 we're working on interior of our new kitchen space as we've tucked into the cozier and warmer parts of the house. Good-bye 2014 and here's to a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
We'll be doing some catch-up on the work we've done since spring of 2013. We spent the first summer here every weekend scraping and staining the exterior with little focus on the interior except for clean-out. Fall of 2013 brought focus on the south ell - jacking timbers, replacing foundations, reframing and getting prepped to eventually pour a radiant floor. Through the winter of 2013-4 with little heat, our contractor worked tirelessly to update and replace all electrical along the way discovering our interior walls were +200 year old timber planks covered with lath and plaster (translation, very hard to drill through). We installed two new bathrooms and plumbed for two more. Spring 2014 found us reconfiguring walls, repairing plaster, deconstructing windows (with original glass) for intense repairs and trying to reclaim a yard that was let-go for more than 25 years. End of April we made the move to "camp" in a part of our house as we rented our last finished project - to better focus on all of the work here. Summer 2014 was a bummer with the sudden and surprise loss of our two beloved Chesapeake Bay litter mates Wrecks and Gracie who we buried in our yard at our now home. The summer also brought a tornado touch down to our close-knit community very tragically killing four people. Fall moved swiftly with an early start to cold temperatures, pushing projects like the radiant floor install and the need to get the new boiler in and running. And now, three weeks away from the end of 2014 we're working on interior of our new kitchen space as we've tucked into the cozier and warmer parts of the house. Good-bye 2014 and here's to a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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