This whole-house remodel and dormer addition won a 2003 REX Award for Best Major Remodel.
We started by jacking the house up and correcting an 8-inch slope from the front of the house to the back. We reconfigured the kitchen, back door, and basement stair. We added a dormer to accomodate a second story bathroom. Then we completely restored the house, inside and out.
These clients have become good friends, a testament to how the project went.
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Foyer
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Master vanity looking through to shared portion of "jack and jill" bathroom
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Kids' vanity looking through to shared portion of bathroom
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Kitchen and office space
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Kitchen and back door (you can't really see the cool bench and shoe cubbies that serve as a mini mud room)
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Restored plaster cove
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Dining room before restoration - failing plaster, rough cove, peeling wallpaper...
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A dormer was added, housing the new jack and jill bathroom
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Before starting any of the fun stuff, we had to excavate around the entire perimeter to assess the soil situation, install drainage, and possibly shore up the foundation
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Since the house sloped eight inches, we raised the back twelve inches, while the front of the house, shown here, was lifted twenty inches to level it up.
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The front porch columns dangled for a bit before we propped them up
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Remodeling is dusty work. Here is the kitchen in the process of being gutted
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The kitchen was practically unworkable, with a narrow nook that wasn't good for anything
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We lifted the entire house, chimney and all. This is after the beams were removed but before the last bricks went in
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We fabricated a laundry chute out of 12" diameter PVC sewer pipe.
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