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When the contractor considers himself to be 99% done, we schedule a formal “final walk-through”. Jon, Marisa, the contractor, the interior designer, and myself spent over an hour this morning walking through the entire house to create an official list of remaining work that needs to be done. Marisa found a piece of trim under…

Today’s on-site meeting was exciting because the paint is done and they’ve removed all the masking! It’s so fun to see how everything is coming together and Jon and Marisa are so anxious to move in! There is still about a month left of finish work to do, but we’re definitely in the final stretch.…

The cabinet installation is complete and finish trim installation is in progress, including the new stair railing. The cabinets have all been covered in plastic as painting begins. All of the concrete flatwork has been poured and the bluestone is being installed on the front porch. By being disciplined during the design process and selecting…

The cabinet company has been busy installing cabinets and it is very exciting to start seeing some of the finishes that Jon, Marisa, and their interior designer selected many months ago! The cedar tongue and groove ceilings on the front and back porches have now been installed. Prior to their renovation, Jon & Marisa had…

The baseboard and window casings have all been installed except where they’re waiting for cabinetry which is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. I was very excited to see that a couple of the great room beams have been installed and they look great! This is one detail that clients sometimes choose to eliminate that they…

The finish carpenter is hard at work installing new interior doors and poplar baseboard and casing throughout the house. Cabinetry and paint are next on the list. Jon & Marisa have not been living in their house during the renovation, but are only a few blocks away in a rental house. A week ago on…

The brick window sills have been moved up and once the brick has been power washed it will look great! The painters have painted swatches of the selected exterior wall and trim colors just left of the new back porch for Jon & Marisa to review/approve. The hardwood installation is complete. The floors will be…

We did not meet last week due to the Independence Day holiday, so it’s been two weeks since our last meeting and great progress has been made! As a follow-up to my last post, the great room windows have been moved up and the interior drywall patched. The interior has also been primed. The exterior…

The interior drywall has been hung and on the exterior the brick and fiber cement siding & trim have been installed. It is exciting to see the interior spaces and exterior finishes take shape! Interestingly these two things also made an issue with the window height evident that no one had noticed previously. While we…

The contractor passed his 4-way inspection this week (framing and rough plumbing, mechanical, and electrical) and the benefits of interior designers and a well developed plan in place. This is post #9 in a series of construction observation for Jon & Marisa.

From the beginning of the project we’ve known that there was something funky going on with the floor but we didn’t know what was causing it. The original house was built in 1949 and the family room addition was constructed in 1989. During demolition they figured out that the family room floor was built an…

Jon & Marisa’s latest blog post on their home renovation in progress

Today was so exciting because now that the framing is complete they were able to remove the temporary interior walls and we got to see the new great room space – it looks amazing! The roof has been dried in and we confirmed the roofing color. We realized that the pantry pocket door was framed…

As far as construction progress goes, the roof framing should wrap up later this week and it was exciting to see that the Pella windows have been installed. With the framing almost complete, the rough plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and audio/visual subcontractors are all gearing up to start. The superintendent and I had a good discussion…

This week we had our first chance to stand in the new addition! The exterior walls between the old and new spaces have been removed, but there is still a temporary wall supporting the existing roof that prevents us from seeing how the space will look and feel once it’s entirely open. We did admire…