Winter House Project - A Good Stopping Place

I think this is as far as work on the house will go for this winter. Spring’s on the way and it’s time to move onto some more seasonal things. So here are two comparison photos – before and after.

It’s not finished, but we’re at a good stopping place for now. For those who are interested, here are links to all the steps we’ve taken over the past several years in our repair and renovation efforts of the front of our 1920s-built house. (All the posts are linked as a series, so you can start with the first and continue back to here.)

• Sept. 2014 – Assessment
• Sept. 2014 – Tearing into the old porch floor.
• Oct. 2014 – Idea for the front porch.
• Oct. 2014 – Old floor removed, repairing the crawl space foundation under the porch
• Oct. 2014 – assessing the porch foundation
• Oct. 2014 – total deconstruction complete
• Oct. 2014 – reconstructing the porch foundation
• Nov. 2014 – framing for the new floor
• Nov. 2014 – new porch floor
• Dec. 2014 – new porch posts
• Dec. 2014 – replacing the front door
• Jan 2015 – building a bay window for the living room
• Feb. 2015 – bay window interior
• March 2015 – making the window seat
• April 2015 – bay window interior trims
• Sept. 2015 – removing the second front porch door
• Nov. 2016 – preparing to replace the front bedroom windows
• Dec. 2016 – replacing the front bedroom windows
• Dec. 2016 – new siding for the front bedroom, window trims, and paint
• Jan. 2017 – making a decision about the front end gables
• Jan. 2017 – front gables makeover (how they turned out)
• Feb. 2017 – one more set of windows to replace
• Feb. 2017 - new window for the loom room

When we pick it up again we’ll do something with the porch ceiling and then finish up a little trimwork. Until then it’s on to other things.