BACK TO WORK...

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  Workers are back and porches are coming along!  Here are some before and after pictures, or maybe I should say "before and during".

This is what the back porch looked like when we first saw the house. 

I like this one better!  Don't you?

Then we tore it all off so we could move the house...

 ...new porch!!

Notice the before and after pix of the upstairs.  There were four windows on the right side at one time, just like the four on the back.  The elevator will go where the  fourth window would have been.

The next picture shows the work being done on the front porch.  This is what I've been waiting for!!  Now it's beginning to look a lot like...

                                                                   its supposed to. ;o)

In the next picture, you will see the gable going up.  This is the one we took down and put in storage.

Now, it's really looking like it should!!  For a long time, until Rick started working on the roof and eaves, we couldn't tell what the gable material was.  It's concrete!  I guess that's the 1914 version of stucco.

Things are moving along nicely.  In the next couple of weeks, the siding will come off, and the plumbers, electricians, and insulators will begin working.

A NEW PROFESSION?...

We've saved the glass from the original windows, and Rick has been making stained glass for the transoms and other decorative items.  There will be one of these in each corner of the openings in the music room.  This is the first piece of stained glass that he has ever made.  It turned out beautifully!  Once it's cleaned up and put in the frame (which he also made!), it will be ready to hang. 

Rick's handiwork!!  Beautiful!

We bought these at an auction.