The painters spent about 4 days prepping and then painting the bead board ceiling above the front porch. Boy does it look good. When I first saw the painting bid, I thought it sounded like a lot. However, seeing the quality of work that is being done, and all that goes into it, it makesRead more about Bead board ceilings[…]
The property next to us came on the market last year. It is a large 1/2 acre property, like ours, with a 3,000 or so square foot house close to the front of the property. Much of the yard is unfinished (and old dilapidated tennis court) and the house hasn’t seen a remodel since theRead more about Neighborly luck[…]
The excavators came last week to start the back yard grading. From the back of our house to the back lot line, we have 2-3 feet of elevation gain that we have to account for. In our case, we plan to break the elevation behind the pool, but in front of our back yard poolRead more about Back yard grading[…]
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last update, but there have been no major change, just slow progress. We are in the nebulous zone between finishing everything in the walls and getting our inspections so we can then insulate and drywall the interior. There always seems to be a few more things toRead more about Update 9/8/17[…]
The front door went in today, and it looks just as spectacular as we envisioned. As a comparison, here is the design I did for the door. The glass panels will be some kind of stained glass, which we haven’t designed yet.
But for the stone cap, the stone work on the front porch columns is almost complete, and boy, does it look stunning. Typical craftsman columns would be made of wood above the stone, but, such wood cladding would be prone to water intrusion at the corners. Instead, we are going to put on a smoothRead more about Front porch columns[…]
We’ve opted for bead board ceilings for our outside porches and our kitchen and family rooms, a nice craftsman touch. The installation process is actually quite tedious, as the boards must be precisely cut around each opening for lights, sprinklers, outlets, and speakers grills. But the results are outstanding. Here is the back porch. YouRead more about Bead board ceilings[…]
It happened in some fits and starts, due to obstructions like the scaffolding, but the roof is completely on now, sans gutters. It looks pretty nice. With the great views up there, I sure wish we could have a roof deck.
During the planning process, we made sure to convince the planning board that our house, despite being bigger, would not appear abnormally large from the street, as compared to the other houses on the street. We went as far as to prepare this top and street view drawing to compare our proposed house against theRead more about Comparing our house to the others on the street[…]
Over the last few days, all the scaffolding hiding the exterior of the house as been removed. While you could kinda see how the house looked through the scaffolding, it is a much clearer picture with it gone, and, it looks pretty outstanding. Once the foundation stone work is done, the columns are complete, andRead more about Good by scaffolding, hello exterior[…]