This Old House
A couple days back I shot this as Ken was working on the roof of the new porch. Its further along now and starting to look pretty good, unlike this creepy image.
This shows the personality of the house well, I think we aren’t the only ones currently living here. This house talks to us, the occasional nighttime doorbell ring, knocking on the ductwork, that kind of stuff. The dogs seem to watch things that we don’t see. I guess after 125 years a house like this takes on its own personality.
-T.
Early Bloom
The latest product we are developing are turnout plants. The first batch that I planted earlier this year have come up well, although its been difficult to control which scale the blooms will ultimately be.
-T
This old Money Pit
The absence of posts to the site lately can be explained with the image above. With the arrival of summer I decided it was time to start work on the exterior of our old (1890) farm house. The porches on the front of the house were in pretty bad shape when we bought it. The main porch at the front door was crooked and starting to rot. The porch on the side had a new floor built, but the roof was falling off.
By an incredible stroke of luck, a custom carpenter moved in next door and set up shop (literally, 2500 sq. ft. worth). That helped quite a bit as I prefer to have the main structures built professionally so they don’t end up crooked or something. I am doing all the grunt work tearing off the old porches and trucking them away. That was finished over the weekend.
When Ken (the carpenter next door) finishes all the main construction I will do the finish work which will include adding on new gingerbread and cladding the pressure treated posts. When done it should look pretty good. Check back in two years or so…
This is the condition of the porches before starting last week. The new designs will be quite different as we will be using a traditional spindle handrail along the fronts, which will help show the front door better, which is quite nice, but buried under the old design.
This was what the front of the house looked like when we bought it two years ago. Stunning isn’t it….
In addition to all that we will be redoing the roof, rebuilding the chimneys, adding new shutters and painting it.� Oh, and the landscaping.
Check back in 4 years….
-T.
