Fountain


Here is a fountain that we installed a few months ago. It’s probably spraying about 8′ in the air. They could have gotten away with putting a bigger pump in because they had the room, but this looks really nice out there and the community loves it.

The green base is 2′ round and the pump goes down about 4′. Red lights were installed for the Christmas season. It was a scary mess to install. The 12′ jon boat was loaded full of electrical wire, the pump assembly, and cinder blocks to anchor it. This was installed at a retirement center. People were bringing there chairs down to watch us put it in. I was just praying that we wouldn’t give them any entertainment by falling in or tipping the boat, because it was overloaded.

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Curb Appeal


This is a job from this past summer. Again, I don’t have a before picture. This updated front totally transformed the look of the house. The yews on the right was already there. They were just trimmed (a lot) and shaped.


“Buff colored” concrete curbing was installed around the existing yews and then around the side of the house.


This area had many different plants. They were removed and three maiden grasses, two knockout roses, a magic berry holly, a lirope, and a crimson barberry were added. The bottom left is a (green) pop up emitter for the downspout behind. In the flower box area, purpleleaf wintercreeper euonymus‘ were installed. They are very invasive and will fill that area very quickly. They are 12″-18″ evergreens, while in the winter they will get a shade of red on them (easy to grow, hard to kill).
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Victorian Farm House


This is our old house that we sold a little over three years ago. It is a 1880’s Victorian farm house. We had to restore most all of it. The front balcony was nearly falling off when we bought it. The right corner of the balcony had to be rebuilt. I didn’t get to finish the railings on the balconies, landscape, or redeck the roof and install timberline shingles on it like I was hoping.

Cedar lap siding with wide trim under the soffits. The house had to be completely scraped and I think that it never had a primer on it, because the bare wood just drank up the primer.

The second story windows actually sat on the floor and they were a little under 6′ tall.

As you can see, the back corner shed roof was redone. The shed roofs on each side use to be porches many years ago. The height of the wall there started a 6′. The old door there was cut down to fit, so I added the gable above to accommodate the new full glass door.

This is the north side of the house. The left shed roof was the laundry and the right side was the bathroom. The four windows were in the kitchen (16′ wide), it was unique to have no upper cabinets because of all these windows. Above is a little balcony for the master bedroom.

The skylight was installed in the master bath shower so you could stand up in it.

We used the side door here as the mudroom/main entry. That room was the most transformed, because I wanted it to look sharp when you came in. That door there was a ten commandment door (door with 2 glasses in the shape of the ten commandments).


The front door is inset about two feet with glass side lights and a transom above. The house also had 9′ ceilings. I’ll post more pictures of the inside later on. In the background on the right you can see our general store chicken coop. I was wanting all of my outbuildings to have the 1800’s theme.

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Bath update


Here is a before and after of the main bathroom in a house that I rehabed. The medicine cabinet was removed. Notice above the window that goes to the master bathroom. I think that the idea was for the natural light to go through the master bath window then through this window to give it a little light. (????) Weird! Well…, it got removed.


I thought about painting the bath tub, but a new tub was only $109.00. It was cheaper and easier to replace it.

The 18″ vanity was replaced with this 24″ vanity. A new tub and toilet was installed. 12″x12″ tile was added on the floor and around the tub.
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Kitchenette


This is a basement remodel that we did. Under the light is where the homeowners “game table” is going. You can see the kitchenette in the background. I’m standing in the living room/TV area.
I had to fir down the ceiling because of all of the existing vents and pipes, so I firred down the entire area here and inset the fan/light combo.

Nothing fancy, but very handy to have in a basement. There is a 3′ counter top with a bar sink. To the left was some wall space for a microwave. The door on the left goes into the bathroom.
Also there was room for a 32″x48″ shower.
Thanks for looking!
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