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Hello there! Lots of pics from the new house today.   Here's what was going on last week:  *the framers tore down the old roof over the sun room and part of the kitchen *they re-framed the roof so that it would be more sloped to avoid water pooling in the flat areas *they ripped out any remnants of the existing walls so that the electrical and plumbing could be redone *the floor was ripped out and a new one was put down- this was a tremendous job because each different part of the kitchen/sun room had a different level floor under the hardwood floor *new heating system is also being worked on- old radiators being taken out *air conditioning is being added to the house  I know some of you will think that we are CRAZY to tear down this lovely space, but our house had virtually no insulation and it would have cost a ton in heating every month.  We also had no air conditioning and window units use a ton of energy.  So, even though it...

Update! Update! The stars have aligned and finally our contractor has started work on our house! Hoooooooray!!!! Sooooooooooooo excited!!!!! Can you tell????? I will post some better before, during and after pictures, but I was so excited to share these preliminary pictures with you.  Oh, by the way I didn't tell you what we are doing here... lol.  I'm so excited I'm losing myself here. The sun room is not original to the house.  In fact, while we were doing some work to the crawl spaces under the sun room and kitchen we discovered the foundation of what looked like a small porch off the back of the house.  Along the way, I guess the back porch, back steps and a small patio were removed to extend the kitchen and make a small sun room. See pictures { here } and   { here } . I guess, the architect/contractor that added the sun room to the house did not pitch the roof properly and therefore it was a bit too flat...