Great Room Project: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch…

Great Room Project: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch…

  October 13, 2006 The electrician finished his preliminary wiring! The left doorway in this photo shows the closet hallway before I started work on it. You can see the door to the Master Bedroom opened into the closet. The door on the right leads 

Closets Project: The Closet Hallway

Closets Project: The Closet Hallway

October 2006 At the same time I was remodeling the master bedroom closet, I performed the same tasks in the closet hallway. And no, I’m not dyslexic and really meant to say "hallway closet." "Hallway closet" implies a closet in a hallway. What we have 

Closets Project: Master Bedroom Closet

Closets Project: Master Bedroom Closet

October 2006 One thing bothered me about our Great Room Project: the closet hallway. This also corresponded with what bothered me about our previous Master Bedroom Project: the master closet. That is, we hadn’t included either in our refurbishing plans. My disturbance in this matter 

Great Room Project: Kitchen Door?

Great Room Project: Kitchen Door?

  September 2006 With the joist project finished, we found ourselves on hold for a couple weeks while we waited for the electrician to come do the wiring. So Monte decided that the back door in the kitchen–which was an ugly gray on one side 

Great Room Project: Ceiling Joists

Great Room Project: Ceiling Joists

  July thru September 2006 Monte put up insulation on the walls, and then started on the ceiling joist project.           First we had to buy the new 16′ joists–and cart them home. Since we didn’t have a trailer, Monte strapped 

Great Room Project: Help From Family

Great Room Project: Help From Family

  April 2006 We had help from family with our project. Dad came over to help Monte string up wiring.       All of their work was for naught, though. The house has had a hodge-podge of wiring over the years, and we ultimately