I’m sure you’re getting bored with my little progress reports on the kitchen, but, well, tough nuggies. Ain’t it purdy? I’ve outlined, in sloppy red Photoshop ink, where the openings for the french doors and a window will be. We’re doing a matching window on the other wall, too. We ended up getting plain vinyl […]

We can get rid of one of our little progress tracker bars, because all of the demolition work on the back of the house has finally been completed! The dumpster was a very worthwhile expense; we filled it twice, and if we had any more room in there I’m sure I could have found more […]

is now lying upside down in our back lawn. Teague is pretty sure the neighbors watched with bated breath while he pushed and pulled and cut and chopped, hoping the whole house didn’t collapse on top of him. As you can tell by the photo, he put in another LONG but productive day: It’s quite […]

This handsome, extremely dirty guy has a proud look on his face because he’s pointing out his latest work – the framing for the back wall of the kitchen. It’s so exciting seeing where the new wall and doors will be! Teague and Don (his father) were out there like little worker bees the other […]

When we decided on french doors for the back wall of the kitchen, we went to Home Depot to check out their stock. I looked online at all the likely places, and found a few I liked in our price range. But none I LOVED. Nothing that would really look right staring back at me […]

Our kitchen extension project is moving along well thus far. No big snags, other than a few very soggy days. April in Upstate NY is extremely rainy. Although, this past week was beautiful and yesterday I actually broke a sweat while outside in a t-shirt! (I was raking leaves, but still…) The drainage system is […]

One of the hangups we have about the kitchen door/window issue is that a regular sliding glass door, while adding a tremendous amounts of light, wouldn’t look right on our house. We definitely need something a little more “historic”, so I went looking online to see what dreamy options exist (all out of our price […]

Teague is my hero. He spent yesterday, his only guaranteed day off of work this week, digging a huge trench for the new foundation wall we’ll be needing when we extend the kitchen out 6 feet. He was out there past sunset – what a hardworking guy!

Ladies, the “But I have no upper arm strength!” excuse has just been blown to bits. It turns out a jackhammer isn’t as heavy as you might imagine….. For weeks, we’ve been talking about getting rid of the concrete porch foundation that lingered outside the kitchen door. It was the last piece of the porch […]

It has become evident that since we’re already planning to rebuild the back wall of the house, we could extend the kitchen a few feet while we’re at it. The back annex we’re removing butts up against the kitchen – all that seperates the two is a false wall. At some point, a few feet […]