While The Cat’s Away…
…the mice will play. Last week I went away to go visit my family for a couple of nights and whenever I do this Pavlo works extremely late nights on the house. Of course I talk to him several times a day while I’m away …
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In Good Company
We knew we were in good company when we pulled up to the house one day and saw this beautiful sight fluttering in the breeze: Yes, that happens to be one of two neighbors (both directly across the street) that are proud UVA grads just …
Window Switcheroo
As mentioned previously, our house still had it’s original, charming windows that we really liked and were thrilled that we’d be able to keep (well, keep all but 3). One window in particular made me slightly weak in the knees and sadly we were going to have to remove it because of plans for a future addition. Although just the thought of removing this window made my stomach churn, I knew that in order to make our future addition work it was going to have to be replaced with a larger window. Here are pictures of the window I’m referring to:
This window is actually located in the third bedroom that I wrote about in the last post. I loved it before we even closed on the house so the second we realized it was going to have to come out, my mind started searching like crazy for a place to put it. I just HAD to keep it!
Pavlo and I threw several ideas out there and finally decided that the mudroom addition was going to be this awesome window’s new home. Remember these pictures of the mudroom newly framed out and insulated?
Yup, that rectangle framed out with 2×4’s was done specifically for our sweet little window and I must say it looks amazing there!
Then came the trim…oh yeah, and the rest of the siding too!
You may be wondering what happened to the hole in the wall that was left by removing this window? Well, the opening has been expanded given a brand new window. We needed a larger window in this spot because there’s only one other large window in that third bedroom and it’s going bye-bye with our future addition. In order to keep it a legal bedroom we needed a large window, otherwise it’s considered a safety hazard and it’s against code.
In don’t know where my mind was when I was snapping pictures of these windows. This window (above) is actually trimmed out on the outside, I just never took a photo of it! I’m also going to get a better picture of the casement window from the inside, the one above just doesn’t do it justice. No worries, I’ll get them soon and add it to this post! For now I just thought it was more important to give you at least some sort of an update after a multiple day blogging lull.
Anyways, not only is our third bedroom one step closer to being completed but now I get to look at this amazing window in my mudroom multiple times a day!