Here are some more updated interior photos….. and it’s all stuff that is starting to make the barn feel like a house. In particular: drywall, spackle and flooring. And not just any flooring….. there were weeks and months where we thought we’d never see the end of pulling down boards and taking out nails. But we think it was worth it, as all of those boards will be used as flooring.
Pretty awesome.
Here are some long overdue photos of the progress that has been made over the last several weeks. The hvac, electric and plumbing are complete. The spray foam insulation is nearly done (just a few areas need to be addressed). And we’re slowly chipping away at the exterior painting.
As promised:
Here are just a few updated photos, and quite a bit of progress has been made. We now have permanent (as opposed to temporary, make-shift) stairs, the exposed spiral ducts are in, and we’ve gotten a jump start on drywall.
Not pictured: electrical wiring and plumbing are also well on their way.
All very exciting.
So, it’s clear that we have been quite lousy at this whole blog thing. We have a bevy of excuses: our weekends have been filled with events, it gets dark too early to get over there after work and snap some pictures, we forget our camera every time we’re there to do work, the list goes on.
But just because we haven’t been posting, it doesn’t mean that work hasn’t been done. And just this past weekend we got there with our camera to snap some updated shots.
They will tell the tales of progress far better than my words alone.
So we’ll get them up soon.
Promise.
did a bit more staining at the barn this past weekend.
So we finally (finally!) decided on a heating and cooling option. Dan Ulrich of Green Way Solutions (www.gogreenwayhvac.com) has been awesome, and provided a terrific plan for a Geothermal System for the barn. And through those barn doors is the rig used to dig the wells / trenches / whatever.
Who knew we’d be so excited about a couple of holes in the backyard?!
here’s another look at our new barn door / windows, from the inside out.
so I just got this text (verbatim) and the above photo from Billy:
“Hey lady, put this in your blog!!”
(pretty awesome, huh?)
We were quite busy this weekend, and the primary focus was the exterior. We did a bit of staining and painting. We just barely put a bit of stain on the
front porch, but we did stain a large part of the front of the house, and painted the trim as well.
On Thursday, though, Billy and I had taken the day off of work. We were fortunate to spend quite a bit of time at the barn with Tom. He got some more windows installed, and we also repaired a few of the floorboards. So it’s official: people can no longer plummet through cavernous holes from the main level into the basement.
Hooray for tiny victories.
As this project progresses, we are finding such joy in each little piece.
It was very, very cool to see the latest update.
Tom cut a hole where a window once was and installed the front door to our home. Once that was completed, he put in the treads to the front steps; (he waited until there was a door, of course: why would we have needed steps if we couldn’t enter that way?!).
And weeks ago, Billy and I had pulled out one of the stanchion posts from the horse stables; we want to reuse them elsewhere in the house, since the stables will one day be our basement. We suggested that one be used out front for the main entrance, and Tom made it happen.
Exciting stuff (for us, at least).
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