Month: July 2018

Getting ready to frame the final wall.

The soil pipe has been buried under the basement floor, possibly since the house was built in the 1880s.  It has reached the end of its

The back door will open into an entryway, with stairs down to the basement, and hallway to my office and the kitchen.  It’s starting to take

As the exterior framing goes up, one starts to get a sense of how the back of the house will eventually look.  Here’s where the windows

Here is Carolene helping me celebrate the fact that the master bedroom has a floor again.  And here’s what it looked like moments before, as viewed

The plywood base is going down.  I can no longer see into the basement from the kitchen.  Yay!

This is where the stairs from garden to basement used to be.  Nearly impossible to tell, isn’t it?  First, the doorway was bricked up and cemented

The garden access to the basement has been the one remaining carbuncle disturbing the house’s lines since the pantry came down several weeks ago.  With the

We used to access the basement this way, but the stairs have now been removed!  These pics give a bit more perspective:  

A nice flat base for the stairs.  It will be wonderful when all the basement floors look like this!  In the image below, you can also

Floor joists have started to be put in.  It feels like we are starting to move from “things coming down” to “things going up”.

I love this image of broken bits of the old wood, and offcuts of the new, collected in a gulley between the original and newly constructed