Raising the Roof

The plan is to ultimately build a deck off the kitchen, with dutch doors like the ones in the basement leading to it.  

The back portion of our kitchen was originally a porch that previous owners had walled in, and the roof line was not high enough to accommodate doors that are tall enough for Rob to get through without having to duck.

In preparation for these future plans, the contractor raised the roof line of the back part of our house.  The tricky part was getting it to an angle the was high enough, but would still let rain run off of it.

We're supposed to have an El Niño winter, so we'll know then if we succeeded.

Peek-A-Boo

Our house gets more deconstructed every day!

Now that most of the siding is off, you can see under the roof of the front porch and of what used to be the back porch (now our ghetto laundry room).

Rob took both of these from the scaffolding.

Our Inner Ghetto Just Grows and Grows

The former owners put a new roof on the house...on all of the house but the bump out I love in the dining room.

With all the rain we've been having, we sprang a leak. Luckily, our contractor was on his way over and was able to seal it off for now with a little trusty visqueen. That stuff is my new favorite thing!