With the brick off all the walls, second story windows out, and the interior non-load bearing walls removed, the house was ready to get a giant haircut. It was time to take off the entire roof! A crane arm greeted us as we drove to the acreage the morning demo was set to start. For the past two years, we’ve discussed plans for this house with people hundreds of times. Here’s how part of the conversation usually goes: Me: Yeah,…
Hey everyone! It wasn’t our intention to take such a long hiatus from the blog, but summer had us running this way and that. Aside from getting bank approval to begin construction, we’ve only had time to continue the yard cleanup and keep it mowed. That is until NOW! We are so excited to show you what’s been happening the last few weeks! YES! THE. BRICK. IS. COMING. OFF!! Our contractor, Matt, had angle iron hooks bolted onto…
Today’s post finds us outside once again. Now that the weather has turned drastically cold and it truly feels like winter, it was fun to look back (just a few weeks ago!) at some fun we had working outside. After getting many of the trees cut down and cleaned up, we still had lots of piles of branches all over the yard. So when the upcoming forecast was 50 degrees on Saturday, we were biting at the bit to rent…
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had time to relax and unwind during the Christmas break. We enjoyed time in Nebraska with my parents and were thankful for good traveling weather both ways. Speaking of great weather…we have really lucked out with some nice weather this past month. It’s enabled us to do some tree demo work to get ready for this spring when the second floor will be coming down. Ok, we won’t be doing any of the demo…
Knock, Knock. Who’s There? We told you about our plans to take off the second floor in this post. Today we’d like to share with you more about our plans to change where the front door was originally intended to be. As you look from the road up to the house, you can see that the builder had placed the front door to face the road. There really is no logical way for guests to arrive at the front door…
As the snow piles up in Iowa, the ability to get work done on the house each weekend gets hard. That’s why we thought it would be a great time to talk about what our plans are once we start construction. As you know, we’re dealing with a house that is much bigger than our needs. So our goal is to make this big house…a little less big. We didn’t make this purchase blindly. Thankfully, before any offer was made…