The demolition on our porch is now complete and we’re quickly moving into the next phase. Let’s hope the weather holds for the week so we...

Demolition started yesterday. It was pretty awesome to come home to work and see this... When we saw this corner, we knew we were...

I have added a new page for house pictures .  I will add more over the next few days, so keep checking back.

We have now been back in our house for 6 months and are still thrilled with the results. I still think it has been a great investment. Th...

Although we had been planning for about 2 months to move back to our house on Wednesday, we are now delayed until Monday. Unfortunately we ...

Just 7 days until we move back in and it's full steam ahead at our house. Although some things seem to be taking forever (master bathroo...

We have completed our mechanical inspections and will start insulation tomorrow. That will probably take 2 days and we'll get our insul...

Well, another week of rain ahead but fortunately most of the work that needs to be done is inside stuff. Plumbing is underway and HVAC will...

The exterior window trim is going up this week in preparation for siding later this week or early next week. There are some other exterior d...

Lots going on at the house these days. The old stairs have been removed giving us a much clearer view of the space between the living room a...

There has been a lot of progress in the past couple of days. We have now have all of the windows installed (except the basement windows whic...

We were pretty surprised when our contractor called on Sunday to see if we had picked out a trim color - especially since we don't even ...

The kitchen cabinets have been ordered! We went with Kingswood Kitchens out of Danbury, CT. Their cabinets are beautiful and reasonably p...

The laborers are working on breaking through the brick walls between the old and new parts of the house. There will be 4 openings between th...

We finally have new shingles ( Certainteed Independence in Charcoal Black) thanks to hard work over the mostly dry weekend by our builder a...

Finally we have a stretch of sunny days so work is moving along on the roof. We're hoping the roof will be completely framed and covered...

Although we lucked out with beautiful weather on Friday despite the forecast for rain, it looks like we have 2 days of straight rain ahead o...

After about 5 work days of rain, the roof is going onto the house. It really gives us a good idea for the size and shape of the addition a...

Progress continues pretty quickly on the framing at our house. The decisions are coming fast and furious now. We have finally settled on Har...

The walls for the first and second floor are pretty much up. It looks great and we are really excited to see the progress. Next is the s...