March remodeling

Yes, it’s been quite a while since I’ve revisited what’s going on at Chez D&D. Work has continued apace, although it’s been somewhat slowed down by the rains, and apparently early demolition took longer than they planned. Yeah. I know, I’ve heard it already, okay?

Let’s recap: This is what the house used to look like:

This is what it looks like today:

And here’s a bit of the side of the house. You can see the new bay window over the kitchen sink peeking out:

Half of our new living room (fireplace is the same):

(Apparently I took no good pictures of the old living room. Which should tell you how often we used it. Oh well.)

And here’s one of my favorite new bits. Remember the old stairs?

We ripped those out entirely and put in a new staircase (the only addition to the house) that’s filled with windows to let a little bit of light in:

Here was our bedroom—that would be with all the furniture and bookcases removed and some detritus left:

Here is the new room, which swapped sides of the house with the bathroom, so as to take advantage of the light. Which is why we have these gigantic windows. Yes, we’ll be getting curtains: stop that.

While we were there for a remodeling meeting the construction guys discovered they couldn’t get the big window up the stairs, so right outside the kitchen they built a scaffold on the fly (seriously—one guy held up a 2×4, the other guy banged a nail into it without even looking) and hoisted the window up the side of the house. I turned to Darin and said, “We should get getting a police chase through here any moment with a window like that around.” And then they installed it:

I am still completely stunned that something as big and permanent as a house really turns out to be nothing more than extraordinarily expensive Silly Putty (well, in the right hands).