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Big day!  This is a great new project and we're just about to break ground.  It's a 1500 sqft, 2 bedroom, 1 bath tudor on a double lot.  The family who built the house had a daughter who lived her whole life here.  The house is v [Read More]

Please forgive my recent absence from the blogosphere.  Not only have I neglected my posting, but I have also been horrible about following and supporting my fellow bloggers.  (I’m almost scared to open my Google Reader.)  My apologies!  Th [Read More]

Here's the house with the stone work on the front, and most of it's stucco. This was about 2 years ago when we started removing the stucco.Here's a similar angle now, well in the summer, there's over 30cm of snow on the ground now. This year we're go [Read More]

We managed to get all the stucco off by the 27th of June.It took over 3 trailers full of stucco to the dump!The house looks totally different. [Read More]

Well it's kind of the opposite actually, I don't know who in their right mind would stucco a ceiling. I thought it would be easier to remove, I thought with gravity, it would just fall down. I guess they used extra nails or something, it took me a w [Read More]

I got some plywood last night to repair the sheathing on the front of the house. The sheathing was repaired before, I'd say maybe 10 to 15 years ago, only they redid the stone the same way, which just let the water in to the wall again. I was going t [Read More]

We're working on the inside of the house most days, and the outside of the house is likely to look like this for several months, so I thought I'd post a picture. You can imagine what our finished house will look like if you... replace the road cone [Read More]

The stucco is up; the kitchen nook looks great...but the brick is ugly. From the side: From the back: In the kitchen: One of these things is not like the other. Unless you're colorblind or reading this blog on a b&w computer, you'll [Read More]

The onset of winter has greatly elevated our desire to seal up the exterior of our house. Most of the house is covered with SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels) - they are airtight and provide great insulation... no drafts there! But for one area of ou [Read More]

Today we had the pleasure of seeing most of the natural split limestone go up on the house.  The mortar gets lighter as it "cures" - but I believe it looks good in any light.  We'd thought the limestone would be from Kansas - we have plenty [Read More]

We've been chipping away at it again. With the deck structure and part of the stairs in place, we can access the main floor. I screwed a piece of plywood to the deck structure, and started ripping more off. We want to do it before we put on the new [Read More]

derek is sitting beside me, too exhausted to blog. and it's no wonder when he's spent his time off working on the house. the best part was today when we got our first look at the shingles. here's a quick video of how he's taking the stucco off. (ther [Read More]

We've been busy removing the stucco from the back of the house. It's a little easier with the air chisel, it sure makes a lot of noise though, so I can't really do it in the after noon. The plan is to finish the band around the bottom of the house, o [Read More]

We drove past this house in Bemidji and I had to stop and take a picture. It has a lot of nice historical details and I love the paint scheme. The cranberry color would look nice on our house. I'll have to photoshop some cranberry trim on my house an [Read More]

It's no wonder the kids are going stir crazy -- there's nowhere to play at the Park house. Thankfully, we can all retreat to our personal Virtual Reality immersion chambers when need be. Glad I built those. [Read More]

trowel for stuccoing Ohhh details. Yeah. I completely forgot about those. I got all caught up in the joy of being finished with the project; the heaven of not squatting on a bucket-bottom; the thrill of being able to stand upright and not lean over [Read More]

newly stuccoed wall old tatty wall In my other photos, the angle, light, shadows and dog all conspired to downplay the true hideousness of the weathered concrete walls.  This weekend, though, I got before and after pics of the last section. Now [Read More]

What We Did This Weekend...Coated burlap with clay slip and hung it for the wood to bale transition...added bamboo to a corner transition (stencil will come later)...cleaned up the cement stucco...and took all that disgusting plastic off the windows [Read More]

The North PatioI love Craigslist. This was listed on Friday evening, I emailed "The Guy" about it on Sat morning and within 30 minutes we were the proud owners of this beautiful slate. We went to pick it up yesterday morning. Did you know slate is qu [Read More]

Okay… no… we’re not dead. That would be a crying shame right after finishing our kitchen, I think. We merely took a very lengthy hiatus for a while to allow ourselves and our bank account time to recoup after that adventure before t [Read More]