The carriage house

Just wanted to show a photo of the exterior of the carriage house. It's kinda like a garage..only it used to hold horses and buggies in he past.

New Photos!

I wanted to share photos of the top of the carriage house, it's enormous! For starters, we hope to make it a work shop and if you look, we have the wood moldings that we have to strip lined up there.

Here is facing the back of the yard:

A picture facing the front:


Two photos letting you see the span along the walls.. it is quite large!





Now a new photos of the kitchen.. those are the walls where the cabinets will be.. we have the soffits all set, we plan on decorating them with the pattern from the front staircase..to make it all belong.


Here is the view opposite the kitchen cabinets. You can barely see it, but there is the rear staircase on the right. The left takes you into the living room.


Now a view facing the back door (mud room) the rear staircase is more visible.


To the right of the back door, is where the small kitchen table will be. We have the old built in China Cabinet that should fit into the right corner. (click link to see cabinet )


Now the view of the living room. The carboard box is covering the wood stove to protect it from plaster.


The living room, facing the Sun Porch.


I think hubby was just showing off all the plaster on the walls for this.. it's the wall on the kitchen side.

And last for this week, is a photo of the living room facing the arch to the parlor, and the foyer.

Going slow ....

Seems like things take forever.. but I realize how much effort is put into it. I look around, and can see the makings of a house.. it's so cool! When we bought it, it looked like a house, but then we did all the demolition, and I lost that perspective in the work process.

Here is a photo looking toward the front door. The doorbell was hung in place, just to get it off the floor.. I know, it isn't new, but I didn't want a new one.. this is original to the house, and I am trying to preserve that as much as I can. All we did was relocate it. It originally hung on the wall in the foyer, near the door.


As you could see by the picture above, the parlor is loaded with "stuff" we had to empty the sunporch, so we could hang the left over sheet rock to get it out of the way. Emptying the porch, was a major job.. it was loaded up with furniture, the kitchen cabinets, the corner china cabinet that came with the house...and my little refrigerator.

The next two pictures are of the sunporch, with the sheet rock hung on the ceiling. It was just short of completion.. we didn't realize what was left would go so far! Hubby figures he needs another 20 sheets, 4 x 8 to finish.. ~sigh~ so close yet so far!

Facing the back of the house:


Facing the front of the house:



These photos (below) were taken just so I can appreciate the green grass growing! Last trip there, there was snow on the ground. This is my back yard (postage stamp) As you can see the carriage house has some issues.. but we are hoping to help it out in the spring time.



Here is a view out my closet windows (second floor). I love the house across the street.. it has a lot of fancy woodwork on it, I am not sure if the photo shows it enough, you may have to click the photo to see it enlarged. The biggest problem with that house, is the space between it and the neighbors! OMG I could not be that close.. I am close enough.



Anyway, this trip, hubby came home with a little bit of a chip on his shoulder. Apparently sis-in-law had some things to say to him, that she really had no knowledge of, and angered him. Thank God it's his sister, not mine! It centered around me, yeah I know, I am in the middle again.. always me.. my fault.. but, he was able to put it aside for now.. but if she ever brings it up again, I know she will be sorry.... he won't hear it again. I don't want ill feeling, I am hoping to make this my home, and I want peace with my family members in the area.

First floor..work is started!

I know, more pictures of sheetrock.. but now it's the first floor! Here is one of three shots of the parlor.



Second view of the parlor facing the living room..




Third view, facing the foyer..



Here is the old kitchen section, off the new kitchen..


A view facing the back door, the bathroom, and a closet, and the door in the back is the basement door.




Standing near the basement door...



This photo is of the new kitchen area.. getting set up to start applying spackle.



So far, the rooms have only one coat of spackle, and it needs two.. so a little more left to do, and a second coat can be applied.

Putting it back together.. slowly

It's nice to see things going back together.. here is one window frame all back, and looking real good! It was stripped, and all the imperfections were filled, and put back up.. it's really starting to loook like something!


OK another photo of the same window, but it looked so nice, I couldn't decide which photo to use..


I just thought maybe seeing it in different views would show off the details of it more, it's actually a nice frame..

There was a lot of stripping involved, but he did a lovely job, we have a lot more stripped, except he forgot to bring home the sills and window stops.. so this trip this weekend, he will gather them up, so they can be cleaned up also, and reinstalled. I should have more pics Sunday, if things go right :)

Spackle, spackle, spackle...

Well, I didn't think I was gonna put up photos, but it's looking so nice, I decided to. First a look at my peony... nice to see something bloom.



Now a closeup of one flower...

Well, of course I messed up the loading of the pics, so they are out of order, but here is bedroom #2 looking out toward the hallway.. almost all the rooms upstairs, have a first coat of Spackle on them.


Here is a view of Bedroom # 3 ...



The hallway, looking toward the rear of the house....and the rear stairs.



Now a look from the rear stair landing facing the front of the house.




Bedroom #4 facing the steps.. it' snot actually a bedroom anymore it will be a sitting room, unless needed.


Same room, facing the laundry room.. you can see the access stairs for the attic in the ceiling.



Here are photos of the master bathroom. The Father-in-law came over to help Spackle, so some may not look so pretty but he did help (argh) He enjoyed working on the house, so who can argue?




Different view of same bathroom.


Once the Spackle is done, and all the sanding, the tub enclosure can be made, and then the floor can be laid. then the doors for the shower stall can be put on.

more work!

Well, a couple of views of the parlor.. this one faces the foyer, and on the far right, the living room.


And then this view is of the front of the house.. he only had a small strip on the bottom to finsh all the way around.


Here is a view of the living room hubby straightened out the far wall, took away the bump out behind the fireplace, he thought it would look nicer level, besides the wall by the left window was messed up.


Two views of the wall one by each window. The holes above the fireplace are for wall sconces, and in the center an outlet so "I can decorate for the holidays" The contractor insisted I needed it.




Well, that's all for this week, he insulated and sheetrocked the downstairs bath also, but I didn't put those pics up, as well as the small closet next to the bath.. he did get a lot done by himself.