This Old House

Finally I have a chance to post some photos of our house. If you would like to see before pics go to www.adamriggar.com/newhouse/index.html. These pics are in progress shots, although it would seem like we should have some more shots of things that are completed. Turns out pretty much every time we go to finish something up we uncover another huge project that sets us back. Ah well, we did understand we were buying an old house. It will be FANTASTIC when it is done-if it ever gets done.

This is our upstairs bathroom. It WAS finished until Adam went to change out the light fixtures and found that the fixtures had no junction boxes. Upon further investigation no fixtures on the entire second floor had junction boxes. And several had been wired with speaker wire. The ceiling plate mount for one fixture was actually an industrial sized soup can lid from West Germany. That put us a couple of days behind as Adam had to rewire pretty much the entire second floor.

Here are a couple of shots of the studio. It still needs to be painted, which is happening tomorrow. Adam is still working on the built in shelves that you see between the two closets. We uncovered an old doorway between the studio and our bedroom. Adam is building 2 sets of shelves. They are gonna look SWEET!

This is our bedroom. It is now painted. Thank you Adam for doing that on Christmas Eve! Through the door that is nailed shut is our sun room. We are having all the windows replaced in that room as it is a HUGE energy suck right now. That should happen in a couple of weeks.

This is the guest room. It is a long way from being ready. I demolished the closet that Adam is working on in this picture. We discovered upon demo that the closet had been plastered in to the original brick facade. So we had to rebuild out the plaster where the closet had been. We are also insulating the open area in the ceiling. Also upon rewiring the second floor we discovered that the ceiling in this room is disintegrating. So we'll be doing a little work on that one too.

Last, but not least, our ever faithful Molly. Who has endured 6+ weeks of construction. By the end of it she was like Pig Pen with a cloud of dust following her around. You can see some of the paint she got into, but there was so much more. Luckily she got a Christmas bath and she's back to being as pretty as ever.

Well, the move is just a day away. I'm sure there will be more adventures to come!