Great Room Project: Taking Off The Trim

Great Room Project: Taking Off The Trim

Since I’m in the blog-posting mood, I’ve decided it’s about time I finished posting pictures of our Great Room Project. It’s only been 2+ years since I left off… To start at the beginning of the Project, click here to read my previous posts. I 

New Chimney

New Chimney

We hired a couple guys to tear out the section of chimney from the roof to the attic floor; they got that done last month. Today the chimney guy came and put an insert from the attic floor down to the wood stove, and put 

New Roof

New Roof

  August 5th the workers started on the roof. They had to take off 4 layers of shingles.         Working on the west side.         The finished west side.         The south side before they started 

Great Room Project: Rafters

Great Room Project: Rafters

Until we started this Project, I’d never seen our attic. I’d wanted to see it, and had attempted a few times to do so, but was hampered by this pesky little quirk called “fear of heights.” Actually, it’s not so much a fear of heights 

Great Room Project: Deconstruction

Great Room Project: Deconstruction

I hid in the pink room while Monte pounded and pulled on the ceiling in the next room. After much crashing, thudding, and dust–lots and lots of dust–the majority of the plaster was down. Monte looked like a coal miner afterwards, and a couple days 

Great Room Project: Before the Demolition

Great Room Project: Before the Demolition

We’ve been at our Great Room Project since November, so I suppose it’s about time I posted some pictures of it. After we got our Master Bedroom (sort of) finished in November ’05, we moved into it with the plan of living in just the