1. It’s June 2005, and the side walls are up.

2. By the next day we’re installing the ridge beam, which the rafters will be nailed to.

3. The rafters are going up!

4. It’s looking like something…

5. Remember picture number one, under “Preparing for the Upstairs Addition? The room Brian and his dad are standing in is […]

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1. We demolished all of the sheet rock in this miniature upstairs bedroom. The rafters you see on the right will be removed to make way for the addition.

2. We removed the tar from this flat roof covering a downstairs bedroom. The addition will be built here. Notice the sloped roof coming down in the […]

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Our laundry room used to be an old porch. When we moved in, the porch had long been enclosed, but the floor was still concrete. Very unlevel and cracked concrete. So how do you level it out to put down tile? Brian learned this trick from the television show This Old House. Take your wood […]

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1. On a rainy day in April of 2005, we broke ground on our remodel. The first step was to dig out this small L shaped area to pour a new foundation.

2. Area to be filled by concrete and blocks. This will straighten out the foundation, so we can build a square room above.

3. We […]

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