Friday, August 24, 2012

House update

It's been a while.

demolition looking at the south wall.
I'm now back from an amazing year of tree planting and have jumped right in to the reno process (with some time off for weddings and family/friend visits in between). So far we've managed to demolish the inside walls that are coming down to give us a better view of what the open concept will look like. In doing this the design has changed so that in the end I'll end up with a two bedroom house with a loft and cathedral ceilings. If all goes as planned.

The structure looks like it's in better shape than most anticipated. As we stripped off the layers of panelling we discovered that old raw wood was used as walls on the initial house (built in 1954). We also discovered that these walls were indeed holding the studs together and therefore were holding up the house. As those beautiful boards have to stay I've decided they'll be an awesome look for the walls and they'll be a focal point of the house. It mean insulating from the outside, but most of the outside has to come off anyways.
demolition of bathroom (new kitchen), notice the raw wood on the left.



I started pulling some of the chipboard off of the outside of the house. I started at the giant hole in the wall and found this less than gorgeous fake brick tar paper. It's coming off, but for now it makes the house look a little less ghetto.

I've had an amazing team so far to help in the deconstruction process. Ben, Gene, my mom and cousins Charlotte and Alicia have been an incredible help thus far. Feel free to come out too and help!


ghetto chipboard house.
home sweet home.
nice brick house.