We've been missing! Work got awfully busy and we contracted everything out. No more home improvement mishaps and creative tinkering... probably a good thing!
I present to you... a lot of pictures that will make your computer angry.
Leveling the House
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| Our house getting leveled and inching closer to the pink goal. |
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| Part of the shim pushed into our joists by the jack! |
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| Even closer! |
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| The jack at work. |
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| The flimsy "frame" that they constructed to hold up the stairs separating as the house gets lifted! |
The Siding Project: The Beginning
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| Siding removed underneath a window. Ooh, that rot! |
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| Our patchwork house! |
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| Some water damage along the garage doors. |
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| Wait a second, this isn't wood! |
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| Welp, it'll be getting replaced! |
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| Pro duct tape. |
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| She's so bare and exposed in her shameful construction! |
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| All closed and gloomy. |
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| Foam is a bad idea. |
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| I always wanted to know what a house looked like without windows. |
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| Back deck partially dismantled for access. |
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| Chimney expertly capped against rain. |
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| It's more expertly capped than previously! |
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| Siding test. I like the dark colors together, but Sherwin William's Charwood on Charwood was vetoed :/ |
Time for a brief garden interlude
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| Life emerging from our winter landscape. |
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| Magnolias? Some sort of white flowered tree! |
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| The geese have taken over. |
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| Tiny blue flowers on our forest floors. |
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| Tree! |
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| More plants I can't identify! |
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| Daffodils! That was an easy one. |
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| Water! I'm an A+ student. |
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| But our fields look so lovely as is. Just don't walk in it, you might disappear. |
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| Fields of green. |
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| Plant things! |
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| Such a bright green. |
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| Cones! Really close up. |
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| Dandelion fields. |
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| It's so purdy. |
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| It'll get purdy. |
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| Maybe I should just start over. |
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| We have a lot of trees. |
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| This trio looked snazzy driving in! |
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| A late bloomer. |
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| Branch is still hanging on, somehow! |
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| More white flowers! |
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| Peonies? They've wilted by now, sorry! |
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| Unknown shrub. |
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| Holy fungi! |
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| Creepily creeping up. |
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| Red bark tree blooming! |
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| Along with all the pretty irises. |
Back to the super serious business of siding.
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| Duct tape can only hold the house for so long. |
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| Our windows removed! |
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| Just look at that expert yellow foaming that someone did earlier this year. |
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| Glad to have the rotting sill gone! |
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| All stacked up for viewing pleasure. |
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| Ooh, new framing and windows completely boarded! |
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| My, you're looking handsome and sharp with that yellow furring on asphalt felt. |
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| Orange for a pop of color! |
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| I'm irrationally excited about the furring strips and incoming rain screen. |
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| It's so... symmetrical! |
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| I'm in love. |
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| But I guess the house can't stay like this forever. |
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| How long can tar paper last against the elements, again? |
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| Not long enough. It's really dark inside, btw! |
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| That's a lot of junk. Goodbye foam! |
Bullsh&$ Interlude
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| We made a terrible mistake with our tractor. It did not include pulley tensioner and router for the mower deck. |
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| Cue our new shiny Kubota tractor. All our monies! |
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| But so shiny! And so effective! |
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| It does driveways too! |
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| It tears up driveways too! |
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| There's always time for creative solutions. |
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| Look at it drain! |
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| Soon it will be smooth. By soon, I mean next year. |
I return you to the siding project
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| I present our siding color: Yankee Barn with Charwood trim! |
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| Front door with welcome mat on the inside! |
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| Cozy retreat. |
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| Painted garage doors! That are dark grey...Sherwin Williams Storm Cloud |
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| More siding! |
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| I promise, it's not a bright red! |
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| We're getting windows put back in again! |
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| They actually slide up and down! |
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| Chimney getting wrapped! |
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| The blocking for outlets and stuff are super cool. |
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| Protecto wrap around the new windows. This wasn't present before. |
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| In progress. |
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| Look ma, a DOOR! It was really dark inside all boarded up during the spring rains. |
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| And WINDOWS! |
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| MORE DOORS! Okay, it's the same door, but showing the shimming into place. |
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| The completed porch. Got my haint blue porch ceiling, also Storm Cloud :) |
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| Progress to date. She's looking so comfy already. |
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| Closeup of the true colors underneath the porch. |
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| Even CLOSER! Love the rough sawn cedar, so tactile! |
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| Our humble front door. Will most likely get painted sometime... on our list! |
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| A window. Self-explanatory! |
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| Chimney and side of the house. |
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| Back of the house with that new sliding patio door. |
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| Back of the garage and our new steel garage door. Also a broken hot tub. |
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| Side of the garage. Ooh, looking snazzy. |
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| Just can't get that color to show up correctly, but at least it's a bit darker here. |
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| Storm Cloud. Really! Not white. |
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| Our old windows! Anyone need kinda crappy windows that won't stay up and houses ladybugs in the valences? |
We're super excited and anxious.
