We had a really wet and dreary week but I still managed to squeak in some good showings at The Neighbor’s House and get started on the interior reframing of Target House.
I had initially wanted to jump straight into some work on the bobcat grading the backyard for the room addition but the weather just wasn’t on my side. It’s nice though to see the existing house all opened up and our floorplan changes really make the home modern and functional now.
It was a big deal for me to commit to not having arches throughout this project as I’ve become really attached to them as most of you know, but with the prominent existing built-in having a square cased out opening, the arches would have clashed majorly.
After framing up all the openings this week I am really feeling the square lines now, another good call from our architect, DeWitt. Our website is getting switched over to WordPress as we speak and will be a true blog and allow interaction with our visitors through RSS feeds, comments and also be way easier for me to do updates.
With a full work week and toddler it was getting really hard to keep up with our web updates so now this should make our (my wife’s) lives much easier. Stay tuned for the new site and more updates!
tom,
not sure where this house is but sounds like a great find. that built-in is killer and so is the fireplace. we have a similar one in our house and is probably my favorite part of the house. good call on keeping those lines throughout the house. an architect friend of us did some preliminary renderings for us that put a huge arch in our kitchen remodel, and we were not feeling it so we went with square case openings with trim to match our windows and existing doorways. it makes all the difference. obviously, these kind of open floor plans are not historically accurate, but those little details can make it less obtrusive, and i think 99% of folks would rather have contemporary function over historical form. anyway, keep up the good work on these. i enjoy seeing the progress reports.
dave evans
Hi,
I am new here..First post to just say hi to all community.
Thanks
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