Thursday, December 11, 2008

...and the roof goes on... the saga of an old house...

I awake every morning to the sound of hammers pounding and saws roaring. Ahhh, the sound of progress!! Here's some shots of my poor old house getting a bit of a facelift...

The old box gutters being removed and making way for a new roofline and gutter system...

















The new roofline is starting to take shape...
















the back of the house where our 3rd floor deck will be (yeah- up there!!! sooo awesome!!). We will be able to step out of the 3rd floor guest room onto a totally private, sky-high deck!























Hubby just needing to be part of the action! :-) (actually, they wanted to show him something so he got to ride the bucket up!)
That's him leaping tall buildings in a single bound. My Superman. ;-)


2 friends have said...:

Ronda's Rants said...

Ohh...what a beautiful home...we would like to buy an older home and restore it...haven't found quite the right one yet!
Yours looks amazing!

Gina said...

Don't do it!!! Step AWAY from the old house... if you know what's best for you. It will eat you alive.
;-)
I don't know that mine's the "right one"- but it's the one we got!! It could be 10x prettier- but it all takes so much WORK. NOTHING is easy. NOTHING.
Slowly but surely, as we go deeper and deeper into the hole....
;-)