Sunday, January 5, 2014

Demolition Derby

We took one last advantage of Nana and Papa's stay with us to spend the night out at the Farmhouse -- and to look at the demo work we just had done.  We had the kitchen ceiling removed, the dining room ceiling removed, and both walls and ceiling in our bedroom removed.  No big deal . . .

Kitchen sans ceiling -- the wood you see up there is the floor of our bedroom.

The dining room ceiling -- the rough hewn beams in the foreground are at least 200 years old.  You may also be able to make out the dowels used to secure the tongues of these beams into the main support.  No nails involved!

Dining room floor -- that's mainly just dust.  The floors are in very good shape for their age.  You can see the divide in the room this side of the big vent in the floor.  Yes, that's a duct taped seam.  

On to the bedroom . . .

As you see, walls and ceiling GONE!

This is the attic space directly above the bedroom.  Plan right now is to put a small stair up to here and plant a bed centered between the windows.  The glazing on them is cool.

Chimney on the wall shared with Laurelea's room.  

Chimney has been knocked off and roofed in.  No telling the last time it was functional.

Other chimney up in the attic - also knocked off and roofed in.  These attic pictures are the first anyone but Cory has seen of the attic. 

A closer shot of the top of this oldest fireplace.  Its a good six feet across of roughed-in stone.

The pile of lath board.  You wanna watch it burn?  Let us know!

New toilet in - thanks to the first inaugural Will pallet!

This one's a little tougher to place -- we took out one side of that first, smaller chimney where it sits in the dining room.


It was exceptionally cold this time around.  15 is nothing compared to the -4 we expect out there this week.  All in all, we got a ton (well, 2, if you believe the scale at the dump) of work done and are very excited to get going even more!


Friday, January 3, 2014

Pallet and Floors

Dad and Mom came up to the farmhouse and helped us out tons. Cory and Dad took out the old sub-floor of the bathroom to find some beautiful pine floors. They also took out the old toilet and replaced it with a new one that Dad shipped from Bellingham. They shipped a pallet weighing over 1200 lbs. It contained all sorts of fun surprises. They shipped my childhood bed set, an organ, sewing machine, old clothes, toilet and lots of fun water toys. Unfortunately the truck would not come over the wood bridge down the road from us, so Dad, Cory and the driver pushed the 1200 lb load on a pallet jack for over 1/2 mile. It was quite the adventure, but we are thrilled to have all these amazing things out there.

Here is the sewing machine...
 We also had a light installed in the parlor
 the floors were removed from the bathroom
 Cory taking out the toilet
 The door to the bathroom was re-hung.
 View from the other side of the door
 Here is the organ that was delivered on the pallet
 We also brought out the secretary that my folks finished for us over the summer