EPISODE 3 - A NEW HOME HOPE
As you recall from
last time, our home was in the
midst of fighting what seems a never-ending
battle to become large enough to hold our growing family
and library collections... Page down to see the most recent pictures.
Weather and the New Year (2004) slowed things down even more -- if that's possble. The guys didn't seem to believe me when I told them that I could only hold back the snow for so long. Fortunately, they got the shingles on just before the white stuff started piling up. You can see that in the first two pictures. The middle shot shows the framed-out live-in attic. (You can't quite see the skylights there, but you can see the very strange multiple lense flare I didn't notice when I took the picture.) In the third shot -- sure enough, snow. How odd for Wisconsin! Since the house was now enclosed, that means we had to knock a hole in the old basement wall to connect the heat, water, & electrictiy from the new to the old. To keep the dust out (a bit), we put up some plastic, and later some foam insulation.
The first, strange looking shot above is a view looking up from the new basement through the stairwell up to the top of the stair cupola. You can see the window into Kendall's current room (and the lovely old siding) in the middle. After that, we have a vew to the north in the new basement. There's a sheet of OSB over what will be a window. The straw on the floor is to protect the basement footing from winter frost. (We can't pour the floor until the heat is in.) The middle shot is looking from Kendall's new room, through his closet and into our new master bath. The windows to the right of that are in the new master bed. Before heat must come insulation, and the last two shots show that -- both in the attic (from the stairwell) and in the western basement wall. See those skylights now?
All the chaos to the north was bound to have an effect on the rest ouf our house. Here, we finally broke through the wall on the main floor in Kendall's current room. You can see the blocked off hallway on the left, and the look-through to the stairway on the right (behind the plastic). Not also Sean's old keyboard and the stairs up to Julie's current room. Main floor work finally meant the end of the north windows in our current bedroom. Now there's just a wall where you see the guys working. Then we have a view into the new addition. That's Kendall's new place on the left, the stairway on the right, and the master bed straight ahead. Finally, last week, they came to pour the basement floor. You get to see the set up (with insulation) and then the completed pour. The step/pad on the left is where the stairway will finally come out. Behind that is the pass-through into the old basement.
The first shot above is looking from the pass-through into the new basement. We've finally got a window where that sheet of plywood was! The second shot in the series is looking up the stairwell, now that the drywall is up. (Taping and mudding still to come.) The middle shot is looking from the old into the new. The master bed straight ahead (again), Kendall's room on the left, the stairwell (and look-through) on the right. Next up is the live-in attic. Julie's been clamoring to make that her new room -- though we'd thought of it as a play room. Now you can deifnitely see the skylights. The final shot is peering over the look-through ledge and down into the basement through the currently-empty stairwell. These shots were taken the week of March 7, 2004.
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