Tag: barn

Maybe I lied; a little more demolition.

So this week, Tom was down to make a bit more progress. The next step was to tear the roof off of the milkhouse, in order to make way for a rooftop garden. (So I guess we technically weren’t done with demolition, huh?)

Anyway, the local wildlife makes a habit out of dining on our vegetation (as evidenced by the current state of our hostas). The entrance to the house will be an elevated porch over the ground level horse stanchions, to the right of the milkhouse. Instead of leaving the pitched roof, we wanted to flatten it, install some sort of tray and drainage system, and start a garden far out of the reach of our neighboring deer and rabbits (squirrels, on the other hand, are a different story).

And now the roof is no more! To see a before picture, check out the post about the barn exterior; it’s the photo of the east elevation.

No more demo.

So remember back in April when I said we hoped to finish demolition that weekend?
Yeah, well, that didn’t happen.
But eventually it did…. a couple of weeks ago, actually. The last remaining room that needed to be torn out was the old work room, which makes up part of the great room. It had a sagging hayloft above, and paneling on the walls, none of which was salvageable.  We had actually been storing salvaged lumber in that room, so we first had to tear all of the nails out of those boards (which was tedious and time consuming).  Once that was done, we tore down the rest of the room.
And, finally, we are finished with demolition.

completed demolition.

(hooray!)

And some more framing.

master bedroom, from barn doors.
master bath, from barn doors.
master bedroom, from bridge.
master bath, from bridge.
from bridge: office left, living right.
midlevel bedroom interior window.
midlevel landing, into living room.
midlevel landing, office on left.
view from where the front door will be.
same photo, with descriptions.

These photos are from just yesterday, 3/26.

A note about the living room: it appears in several photos, and looks like a big mess.
The future living / great room is where the old work rooms and hay loft were. Some of it remains (the hay loft, in particular), as it has been used as make-shift scaffolding.  It will all get torn out eventually.

So exciting.

First framing.

first floor bedroom 1.
guest bathroom.
first floor bedroom 2.
a lousy picture of all 3 framed rooms.

Needless to say, we’re a little anxious to get started on work.  We couldn’t even begin the application for the construction loan until the farmhouse was sold and out of our names.  So there’s a bit of lag time…… and we’re getting restless.  In the meantime, Billy placed our first lumber order with Tague Lumber (http://www.taguelumber.com/).  They were great: had everything in stock, delivered quickly, and came with a forklift so that they could distribute our order to the locations we need it.  Awesome.

Tom (TGWoodruff, LLC) has also been eager to move forward.  So, on Sunday morning, Billy and I got call call that he, and my father, were on their way to us.  We were going to do some preliminary framing!  So exciting.  Since this process has entailed a lot of waiting, it’s nice to see some progress.

We framed out the two first floor bedrooms and a bathroom; they are in the space over the garage.  One we call my parents’ room, so that they have a place to stay when they’re visiting us in PA.  The other is an additional guest room.  Those two rooms share the full bathroom in the hall.
The remaining space over the garage has been dubbed the “pool room,” since Billy acquired a free pool table (thanks, Andy!).

Here are some photos of the finished products from that day!
(Please ignore the trash piles, (as we didn’t have a dumpster yet), and the lousy photo quality.)
How cool is this?!
We’re on our way!

Demo

big wall BEFORE demo.
big wall AFTER demo.
mud room BEFORE demo.
mud room AFTER demo.
middle room BEFORE demo.
middle room AFTER demo.
work room BEFORE demo.
work room AFTER demo.
work room / middle room AFTER demo.

While we wait for our construction loan to go through, Billy and I have been busy with demolition.  It’s not demo in the traditional sense, as we’re trying to salvage all that we can to reuse it elsewhere in the renovation.

Towards the north side of the barn, there was a giant wall of 11″ wide planks, separating the main room (by the hay mow) from the room that’s over the garage.  We’ve taken out that entire wall.

On the south side of the barn, there were three rooms below the hay loft.  The side entrance led into the mud room, there was a room in the middle, and then a work room towards the front of the barn.  In our drawings, the mud room will remain in roughly the same place, but the other two rooms will come out to form the great room.  So, board by board, we tore those out as well.

Here are some before-and-after photos of demolition.