Who sings that country song with the line..."it's getting better all the tiiimeee"? Anyway, I often hear that line as I look through our progress in pictures on This Old House. We're making progress but it's SLOW. I suppose that's how it goes when it's old house construction. Right now we're ready to add siding to the 3rd side of the house (the back) and have only 1 more new window the put in for the house. The new back door just went in last weekend (thanks for helping Brian!). John's still framing one side at a time and we're moving ahead slowly but surely. I've still been working on the project here and there, but some shoulder tendinitis is limiting my projects these days. Lots of window taping and caulking for this chick, then siding, siding, siding. Estimated date of completion? Let's just try to get the outside finished before it snows... :) Ugh, don't think about the snow. :)
Here are the most recent pictures!
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| Our dining room with bay windows and the new window on the left wall...looks out into the backyard! |
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| The dining room and living room. I'm excited about all the natural light! |
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| The living room and stairs up and down |
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| The dining room (love the new window with the view of the back yard) |
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| The kitchen addition (just 4' x 4' but it adds a lot!') and new back door. Love it! |
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| The front porch with new living room windows (also love them)! |
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| My sweet Samson prefers to be right in the action. |
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| Stairs up (the last window to replace is that square hall window) |
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| Good company :) |
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| Shop vacuuming away the last of the insulation and stuff upstairs! |
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Framed up the new master bedroom and closet space. Finally got rid of the ugly door to the roof!!
(Remember that thing?) |
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| Master bedroom walk-in closets....eventually :) |
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| The front of This Old House. Still needs siding on the porch and painting, but much improved! |
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| Starting to look like a nice place to live eventually...our neighbors think it's a great improvement! |
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| Close-up of the east side and bay windows. |
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Back side of the house. Still has the old rickety back steps, but it's ready for siding.
(I think the house looks like it's winking at you!) |
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| Loved seeing our yard bloom this spring and summer! Lots of Lily's! |
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| The kitchen is on the west side and yet to be framed up and ready for siding...it's our last side to go! |
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Close-up of the newest window in the dining room. The view will be pretty once that storage tent is gone!
That's all the pictures and updates I have for now. Can't wait to finish up siding and windows, especially once we paint the house! It'll look good. You'll have to wait for the pictures to see our color scheme, but it's going to look sharp!
Till next time! Happy project working :)
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If you forgot what TOH looked like last time, you can revisit the update
here. or
here!
