Our house had pretty humble beginnings that did not include a designated dining room. The layout on the main level was very, very simple – just three rooms in total. The house did not have indoor plumbing when it was built in 1885, and the kitchen in the rear room was still very simple and…
Category: renovation
project files: goodbye old tree
Photo above taken January 31, 2000 – the day our offer was accepted on this house. The fence installed by the previous owners was nice and straight, and the retaining wall was in decent shape. You can see just how many trees were located right along our property lines on both sides – most of…
project files: lateral lines
I’m excited because this post on the his coordination piece can be a short and sweet one! We revisited our initial bidders from 2020, and had one taker who was ready to go. We needed to reroute our sanitary and storm sewer lines, and the new ones had to drop down earlier in the yard…