Wall and Shed Doors Weekend

Rebecca and I worked in the backyard all weekend. It was a completely different end of the week than last weekend's VerMontreal Bike Tour.

Having watched the expert mason Eric Mach, Chapin attempts to replicate Eric's work.



The completed wall with some lillies of the valley.



Here's our shed in 2004.




Here's the shed in 2009. Rebecca, always wanting a round hobbit hole door, settles for a round design on our shed doors. All of the materials for the doors were left over from our house renovation...well, except for the hinges.

Finished 56 Conger Photos

Rebecca, Laura Rose and Chapin finish at midnight on leap day 2.29.08

The dogs move in

56 Upstairs Bathroom - thanks to Eric for picking the slates out of the Fairhaven boneyard

56 Living Room

56 Kitchen and First Floor bath

First Floor

56 Conger Second Floor Ready

Master bedroom


Finishing touches on hallway


West Bedroom


Rebecca pulls up the floor covering

Painting 56 Conger!

Sarah swoops in from Maine to help us paint!

Laura Rose was our detail painting friend extraordinaire.

Rebecca pauses for a moment in the 56 sunroom.

Stove

Siding the House Begins!

Ben and Ben enjoy a 55 degree day in January (a daily record) to start siding the house.


Ted trims the front porch.

Joy and Chapin prepare the back side of the house for the future patio. It's Chapin's last day on sabbatical. He heads back to Local Motion tomorrow.

Rebecca refinishes three old window frames from Mason Brothers in Essex Junction for interior transoms. Reuse rocks. All of our interior doors, except one, are salvage doors from Recycle North and Mason Brothers.

Chittenden Bank's Spiral Stairs

We removed this old spiral staircase from a house in Bellows Falls. Originally it was a staircase at the Chittenden Bank's Essex branch office. We're rehabbing and planning to put it in our unit.


After the Oak treads were removed, we sanded and prepared to refinish them.