Clean Up and Bid Day

My trip has been postponed a week, so I was here to take pictures of the house tonight after work. My head-on shots turned out too dark, but the house looks most impressive with the debris gone from the front.

You can see a lot of the potential I saw in the house with the yard clean. You can tell that something is happening, that someone cares.

And you can see the front porch in its new form. Its been months since you could actually walk on it and it wasn't used as a place to store things.

It's quite a nice front porch. It's about 8 or 9 feet deep and 24 feet wide.

Still plenty big enough for a nice seating area. A good place to sit and watch the world go by.

Or to wait for someone to come by and visit. And the Foyer addition doesn't really take much away, as far as looks or space.

I asked New Guy to add another layer of trim to the door. He just beefed it up so that the moulding stood out more instead of being flush with the siding.

And they also added a little bit of quarter-round up at the ceiling to finish the transition.

I also had him add a 'drip edge' up top to match the rest of the windows. It's just a little detail that, once painted out, will really make the door seem like its always been there.

See it above the double windows on the porch? It's actually a drip edge for rain water, which won't get under the porch, but all the windows have it. And now the exterior doors do, too.

Here's the top of the original post we incorporated into the new wall of the door and foyer. Still a few mouldings to be replaced or refitted.

And look how they finished off the brick base of the column. They still have to piece in the green part somehow.

And they took down the funky board running vertically behind the post, in between it and the new siding of the closed in foyer. They trimmed it, making it follow the angle of the post.

From the back it still sticks out a bit, but it looks more finished than before.

And here are the remaining refugees from the demolition that were camping out on the front porch. I may be looking to sell some of this. I'm thinking about saving one of the mantels for decoration.

New Guy's crew cleaned up today while New Guy met several sub-contractors at the house, taking bids on the rewiring the electrical system, completely redoing the plumbing, and installing the new HVAC system.

And actually, along with another side project, all those sub-contractors will start tomorrow, simultaneously! They might even be done by Friday, depending on how everything goes.

So much to look forward to! And so much happening at once!