It is finished

It is finally done. Many of you who frequent this blog have likely heard about the "8th St" house. Well this is it and it's all done. This is where a good portion of my nights, all my weekends and holidays have gone for the past 11 months. It has been a good deal and truthfully it would have been done 2 months ago if it weren't for a certain plumber. Anyhow I know I've posted the "before" pictures previously but it's usually more fun if you can see the old and new side by side. In every case the pictures are of the same area of the house but maybe from a slightly different angle.

It's difficult to see in the new picture but the bathroom is 2' wider and has a closet area not shown.

when I got in to the framing of the kitchen I found that most of it was arbitrary so out it went. turns out there was about a 20' vault that was hidden so we opened it all up and now it has a lot of cubic space. also it was in the exterior kitchen walls that I found some newspapers from the early 1880's. There was also a full Ogden Examiner Sunday paper in one spot of the kitchen floor used to shim it up.

The house was not trashed like this, well it was, but there wasn't literal garbage on the floors. I just got ahead of myself with the demo before I got the camera out. You put a sledge in my hand and things happen, I can't help it.

This is just a bedroom. The house must have been remodeled in the 60's or something when the mid-century modern windows were the cool thing to do. We made them big...again.

This shows how the kitchen and dining area were 3 separate rooms and are now 1 big room.

This was essentially a closed porch which we closed even more and made it usable footage. We also did this with what used to be the front porch, we changed it to an entry.