Renovation Pics Pt. 1

Let the renovation begin!

We are adding on to the house to allow for a more spacious kitchen.

Minus a few windows

We have decided to keep the pitch of the roof. We think it will add some interest to the kitchen.

Kitchen window to be mounted above the sink

The porch floor had to be built up to the rest of the floor in the house.

Front door and new addition. If you think that your eyes are playing tricks on you and the door looks crooked, you would be right. The door isn't crooked, however the vertical corner piece of siding to the right of the door is. Our contractor realized this but we weren't sure how apparent it would be until the addition was closed in and the door installed. We will be making changes. This would not be a good first impression.....entering through a crooked doorway!

We found this beautiful door and I just loved it. We will put some nicer hardware on it, but I loved the look of it!

Inside the new addition (view from standing in front door). Mike removed the siding on the soffit above so that we can sheet rock the ceiling. He also removed the windows from the old exterior wall to the right. You can see where he's been removing wood siding. We will eventually remove this wall entirely with the exception of an engineered header and a few columns.

This shows you a little about the wall construction of this old house. When it was built the studs extended the entire height of the house. This makes for a very tricky renovation. If you can see the two layers of wood that are jutting out perpendicular to the wall siding, the top layer is the second level floor, the bottom layer is the ceiling of the first story. And then the stud continues straight from first to second story.

Another view. I am saving several of the old windows for a few projects I have in mind.

This week's project ~ new windows!

Upstairs windows.

All of the windows were custom made, we are very pleased with how they came out.

Window man doing his thing!

Something look odd? We are waiting to replace the a/c unit windows until our tenants are out and we install central heat and air.

We've been so excited about getting this ball rolling! I will post more pics as I have them. Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement! We know that God is going to use this home for His Glory!