The fun continues...

Good as new

A day in the life...

Here's a glimpse into a day in the life of our home renovation... super glamorous ;) Meals are eaten outside on the deck on nice days, or on the couch in the dining room on rainy days, where all the furniture from the dining room and living room is crammed/stacked. View is the taped off doorway to keep dust from the work in the living room from spreading all over the rest of the house.

The good news is we should be moving back in to the living room this weekend! Stay tuned...

Looking good!

The exterior is looking great, pretty much done. Just need gutters and brackets on the portico. Painters coming soon!

Moving it inside

Now that the exterior is mostly done, we've moved our efforts back to the interior. Working on getting the living room back together, including a new ceiling (with lights!) and fresh paint. Next up will be the kitchen. And then we'll start finishing out the interior of our new space upstairs. Whew! 

So close!

Check it out! The sunporch is finished. Just took three days and it's looking great! Now we just need to get brackets installed on the front portico and slap some paint on that guy! Whew. We also learned after the heavy rains this week, that with all the valleys on the roof, we'll definitely need to install gutters. We thought we might get away with another solution, but water was just pouring off the roof onto the porch. Stay tuned!

Metal roof - done!

The standing seam metal roof on the front dormer is in and looking great in musket brown. This is the view from up on the roof. The flashing around the chimney is a little awkward, but we'll revisit that later...

Sunporch update

Walls are framed and windows are going in!

Sunporch prep

The sunporch is prepped for its makeover and looking great! It will be getting new windows and a half-wall with panel accents. We're keeping it unconditioned since that's one of our favorite parts about the room now - it's warm just about year-round and a nice in-between the conditioned air or heat of indoors but not quite as severely warm or cold as being outdoors.

Exterior: almost done!

I'm trembling with excitement as I type those words... almost done. Just the exterior, mind you. But still. Whew! It's been just over a month, and we've gotten so much done!

What's left? As demonstrated in my very, um, 'rustic' photo here, we have selected the color for our standing seam metal roof which will cover the dormer there in the middle (color is musket brown for those interested), and it's being installed Thursday. 

All that's left is the sun room on the left - where you can see a super professional rendering. We're removing the louvred windows and doing a knee wall along the bottom, but keeping the sun room vibe with large windows on all sides. That should be done next week. 

And then it's paint time! And then we celebrate. 

We won't be moving upstairs anytime soon, but hopefully the hardest part is (nearly) over. 

Finishing the interior will take a good bit longer, since we'll be doing most of that work ourselves. But all in good time, right? 

In parallel, we're addressing our ceiling issues in the living room, dining room and kitchen and hope to have that all wrapped up by the end of this month. Whew!