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
Can you believe it’s been three years since we started work on Woodside? The progress isn’t as noticeable when you see the house every single day like we do, but when I look back at pictures from the first year and second year – WOW, we have come a long way! The biggest change (for us, at least) is that we now live at the … Continue reading Woodside: The Third Year
Thanksgiving: Eat a ton of food, take a nap and then get up early to shop climb onto scaffolding 30-feet in the air. At least that’s how the Papineaus do it. Last year our Thanksgiving weekend project was building the porches; this year, we tackled exterior work on the opposite end of the house. We started by setting up scaffolding to pull down the rest of … Continue reading Exterior Work
I’m self-admittedly not a very visual person. I’m bad at hanging things on walls, I can’t tell if something is 30 feet vs 300 feet away from me and somehow I mess up drawing straight lines even with the aid of a ruler. So even though we have blueprints, it’s still been difficult for me to envision how everything is really going to look. Now that … Continue reading Framing – First Floor
