If you remember, the third floor of Woodside used to be a little creepy. For the first year or so after we bought the house, I would refuse to go up there alone. The practical reason was because there was a family of raccoons who had taken up residency in the attic, and I was certain they were going to attack me. The less practical … Continue reading Third Floor – Before & After
Woodside has been buzzing with activity the past few weeks! The entire interior is now painted, light fixtures are up and our HVAC system is running throughout the house. All of this needed to be finished prior to our flooring company beginning their repair and refinishing work on the wood floors. They used a combination of old wood we pulled up in other areas of … Continue reading Flooring
We have WALLS! After looking at blueprints for nearly four years, it’s so exciting to see the plans come to fruition. Walking the house is much different now; you can get a true sense of the room sizes and layout, and notice things like how quiet it is and how the natural light falls in the rooms. Our amazing drywall team hung the entire house … Continue reading Drywall
Woodside has been bustling with activity over the past couple of months! After we finished the second and third floor framing in January, our HVAC company, electricians and plumbers spent several weeks here completing their work upstairs. Our fireplaces were also installed, and we’ve been working on the blocking to get ready for drywall work to begin. Now that all the “behind the walls” work … Continue reading Second & Third Floors
In keeping with our post-Thanksgiving tradition, we spent that weekend doing exterior work at Woodside. Like most things around here, in order to get one thing done, you have to do about three other things first. We wanted to get our new roof installed before winter, but needed to rebuild the third floor dormers and frame out the chimneys inside the house first. After we … Continue reading Roof & Dormer Work
