Restoration I've been working on last couple of years

[m22mike]

Geeez Donie, I bet your ready for a break ? Nice job .
Mike

[Charley Lillard]

Amazing. Looks good. Did you ever second guess on if you just should have started from scratch ?

[wheelhop]

Beautiful job Donnie, I think I visited your project about 3 or 4 years ago maybe?
Isn't that your grandma's old house?

[BJCHEV396]

Kudos Donnie....great job!

[mockingbird812]

Wow, what a huge job the two of you took on! That’s fantastic! Congratulations!

Your pretty white L78 will look just right in front of this beautiful home!

[TimG]

That looks great. Someone in our neighborhood did a similar thing with an old house and at first everyone questioned what he was doing. The final product turned out beautiful, like yours.

[A12pilot]

That is FANTASTIC!!

You gotta be very proud of that for sure. Very nice!!

Cheers
Dave

[Postsedan]

I have been watching this project from afar.

Donnie - You should be extemely proud.
As I am very proud of you.

I know it was a long long project....but now you can enjoy all your hard work.

Well done my friend

Dan

[Lynn]

As a guy who lives in a 1902 Livery converted to living space in 1994, and is working on restoration of another 1902 building (publishing museum) AND is working to convert a 1919 warehouse into my workshop/storage area, I can say: congratulations!!! Lots of challenges and road blocks. Looks great. Are you in a historic district? If so, did you have any issues with the preservation commission?

Charlie asked: "Did you ever second guess on if you just should have started from scratch ?"

For me, there is no second guessing on the museum project (can't really start from scratch when the building is PART of the museum) and not often do I second guess our home. But there have been many times when I have second guessed myself on the workshop. If I had known some of the issues I would have run into, I would not have attempted this. I keep telling Sherri: "OK, this really is going to make a great workshop, right?" Building from scratch would have been much easier. But, I never would have ended up with as much square footage as I will eventually have from the warehouse.

[Donnie]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

Is a portion of the new house still the old house? If so, I sure can't tell it! Looks great.

Bill, from the garage forward the main floor is original built sometime in the 1880's. the basement was about 12'x12' made of stones that they plowed up working the fields.
the rest was crawl space. had to pick the house up and dig it out now I have a real basement.
but I did keep two and a half walls of the original stone basement.

we had to sawzall the second floor off. only had 5 3/4" floor joist no way to run duct work for heating.
by keeping part of the original structure its only considered a remodel not new construction for tax purposes.

Charley, you always second guess yourself on some part of a project. but for me it wasn't the restoration part its the interior layout that I sometimes think... should I have done it different.

TimG, from what I understand lots of people thought I was nuts. but now that its almost finished there's no talk about it anymore.