Exterior Shots of Windowseat, and a Winner...

{painted T-111 ("Texture One Eleven") grooved plywood siding, James Hardie Fiber Cement trim and wood sills}

Finally, some outside shots of the windowseat...

One thing I am SO HAPPY about was to enlarge the overhang on the windowseat, and also thrilled to add the expansion of the roof overhang over the existing deck in a change from the original construction plans.

Do you see in the photo above to the far left what a skimpy overhang the roof on the house has? Yes, only a mere nine inches.

{painted Georgia Pacific Plytanium Ply-bead plywood sheet paneling on the soffit}

Not only did the new windowseat roof get a more substantial overhang then we have on our existing house,  I expanded the overhang over the deck from 9" to  2'-6"! It's now the only place in my house where I can walk outside and not get wet when it rains!

The overhang protects the doorway and makes it so easy to shovel the deck when it snows. No longer does snow build up in front of the door.

I have to thank the talented and insightful Kim and Jack Alvarez of Landmark Consulting in Albany, New York for their advice on handling the overhangs for this project. Kim and Jack's specialty is historic and landmark buildings and interiors, but their knowledge of material and proportion helped guide me on this "young" 1978 house!

See Landmark Consulting's website here: www.landmarkconsulting.net

Loretta

p.s. Congrats to the winner of my jewelry and chocolate Valentine's giveaway, Grace Fecher! Thanks to all who entered!

More Paper Model - and Demo Is Done!

{done!}

Here's my paper model completed with it's roof on! This shows the new windowseat and the larger roof overhang and a 18" roof extension over the deck. (The construction drawings done a year ago had shallower overhangs.) This past Spring a friend told me I needed heftier overhangs if I really wanted to change the style of my 70's "modern" house to something more traditional, and I have to agree. See the shallower roof overhand here.

Another project is on this paper model, too. Wouldn't this new french door and circular window look great to replace the existing ho-hum sliding patio door? I think so, and maybe it can be done in a year or two. Always dreaming! My budget calls for renovating in stages.

  

The demolition of the old fireplace chase is done and work building the windowseat should start this week, weather permitting. Here you can see the old steep staircase removed and the ladder up the chase...

{an octopus revealed!}

Always surprises during demo. I never knew the old fireplace had all these vents attached to it! We have four vents in the house that I though were HVAC, but were really a forced air complex heating system with this old fireplace we never used! Weird, and looks like an octopus!

 

Fianlly, all torn down and ready for the new construction. I am SO excited!

Loretta