KY Farm House ~ Improvements As We Go

January 2014

That structural nightmare of a wall has been completely fixed:



There were some serious structural issues that J had to address, along with making the house airtight.

 January 2014/December 2013 ~

Even I can see that these studs are totally wrong!  They don't go from floor to ceiling in a straight shot.  Someone cut notches out of them and/or cut the tops off and added different boards in a not structrually sound way:


A closer look at that door framing - who uses all sorts of different boards in this mismatched way?







Here the former constructor used some plywood in the wood framing! Crazy, careless and dangerous :( 



A temporary wall so that the load baring wall can be re-made:



J made a new doorway from the master bedroom to master bath:



The kitchen where Emma and I tore out the old linoleum (what a pain!):




The living room - less clean now that construction is in full force:



New electrical box, and walls framed for a mudroom (to the right of the front door):



Redone window in the dinning room:



New window for the kitchen:



Emma's room with new walls and the ceiling fixed (there were eaves pointing into this room):



 No eaves inside the house anymore! 



After the tub was taken out of that "bathroom":

 

This will be 2 bathrooms, one on the lower level, one on the higher level (master is the higher one):



Outside walls and roof are done, but still need house wrap:



Outside walls redone, where the windows were put back in:  (Emma is in the kitchen window, J is working on the window in Emma's bedroom)



From the back of the house, now that the outside walls are done with house wrap:






Zack's spot, at a fishing hole:



A big backyard:

 


November 2013 ~

Picture from ontop of the biggest hill, looking across the street over other farms:

(our farm house in the bottom right corner)



Looking down the hill towards our farm house (see the camper, the chicken coop and the shed):



The Barn:



Re-doing the sheathing to make the house air tight:

(South side of house)






Back of house:




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