A Little Catch Up

There have been a few projects around the house that I have neglected to blog about. A lot of these involve the upstairs so I'll start from the bottom up. You may recall that we have (or had) a door at the bottom of our stairs. We also had a bulk head right after the door that you would hit your head on every time you went up the stairs. These two things made it impossible to get anything bigger than a twin upstairs which to us wasn't reasonable. After checking to make sure that there wasn't a reason for the bulkhead, which there wasn't, we took them both out. Now we can easily fit basically any size mattress upstairs! Here are the before and what it currently looks like.

 And this is the disappearing bulk head

Our next neglected project is the whole house fan. Our upstairs geats REALLY hot when it's hot outside and so we installed the fan to relieve some of the heat. It works really well and was actually pretty easy to install. It basically turns any windows that are open into fans so when it's cool outside you get all the hot air out and the cool air into the house.

 

 

 Our next stop is in what has become my favorite room in the house. Our guest room is in it's final stages of finishing touches. In my opinion it is very comfortable and now that we have window coverings, our guests can sleep in!

Before

After

So that is the update on some of the neglected areas of the house. As for the areas we are actively working on, we are making pretty good progress on the back porch. The support beams under the entrance of the porch were no longer really supporting anything so Nate made a new footing and ripped out and replaced the retaining wall that had been damaged. He also finished framing out the back of the house so now you can start to see what it's going to look like!

New retaining wall and support beam

Outside view

Inside View

We have a tarp over the door area so water doesn't get on all the wood stored in that area so you can't really see that area. We also found out that we get to pick up our windows and doors tomorrow so hopefully by this weekend we will have those installed and it will look closer to a room!