Two sledge hammers & A garage

Two weeks have gone by since our last update and a lot has happened! With the Thanksgiving holiday we didn’t have time to head over to the house much, so when we finally started documenting the process we were surprised by all the work. Since our last post the rest of the concrete went it, the basement was framed in, the interior demo was started and the garage and mudroom were framed in. In tiny fractions of space its looking like a new house. Its really transitioning in my mind now, so much so that the old house barely exists anymore.

When I see the space now I feel like the old house has been totally demolished. I my mind’s eye, its hard to recognize the boys rooms as their rooms anymore, and as I’ve talked about before, that’s a little bit hard for me. The excitement though is starting to really outweigh the sense of loss and as we move forward our anticipation of the new build pushes us toward bright, happy, new beginnings.

While all this magic is happening at the house, our responsibilities in making choices has really been increased. This week we have to pick the siding color, the shingle color, the fireplace and the front door.

That’s a lot.

It’s really hard to pick siding colors. Really really hard. They are permanent. There’ no saying “eh, bad choice. Lets change it.” So we keep going round and round: bold, and dark with some dark color door (maybe red), or muted and more subtle with chocolate or dark stain wood door. White trim (at least one thing is decided), white windows, greying shingles.

We’re sort of wandering between dark green and dark grey at this point I think. The thing is we’re not sure if we want dark bolder green, or middle of the road grey. Its really really hard. I’m leaning toward the dark grey with a red door and white trim. But who knows what we’ll come out deciding on next week. Its changed about 10 times already.

The front door is fairly easy. We’re all craftsman-ish around here, so it will fit in that line, and the fireplace, well, we really haven’t even started looking at fireplaces yet, but at least its on my radar. Add one more ball to the juggling act.

Anyhow, decisions are everywhere, but at least the boys are having fun! They love the construction crew, which they know by name now.

 So here's the basement floor.

 The mudroom, garage and workshop concrete

 The new addition main floor (over the basement)

 The garage walls, being assembled, laying down

 Main floor garage and mudroom are up!

 There are two doors that go straight across, you can see straight through here.

 From the other side of the garage.

 There will be a deck that comes from the house wall out to where the woodshop ends on the far right.

 The new basement

 Running about in the garage

 Demo.

 Main floor demo. Current kitchen.

 Current living room

 Owen's room

 Collin's room

 The upstairs window looking down on the garage and shop.