Project Gallery

August 11th 2015 – Hi all! Check out the new gallery photos of the completed project, courtesy of Jason Wessel of JWessel Photography!

Photos from day one to project completion!

Closing Day!

Champagne surprise from the ladies

The Official “Before” pic.

Future kitchen

Insert kitchen table here.

Not too shabby for a front door

We had way too much fun with the old arts and crafts room

Katie takes the former arts and crafts room to new levels

Best. Stickers. Ever.

Scraping Begins

Bookshelf Reconfiguring

Reclaimed Doors in their new home

Weston and the super toliet

Melanie = amazing at demo

Window restoration fun

Hello brick wall!

Future master bath

goodbye dropped ceiling

Lenny, always happy

More antique doors come home

Cleaning up the bricks to reuse them

melanie loves pulling nails from reclaimed flooring

Reclaimed new back door!

Fence day!

Josh and John smiling through the ice rain

Cookie is already figuring how to escape

FINALLY!!!!!!!

Carpet removal begins.

more carpet fun

Cassie loves carpet

I hate carpet. (one month later)

Weston hates it more.

Cookie even pulls off diva on old carpet mounds

Last. Piece. of. Damn. Carpet.

Done. Happiest moment of my life.

My first piece of mail! Thank you Shannon and Casey!

And the dumpster arrives

Melanie and Wes make demo sexy

so many antique tubs so little time

My choice – future master bedroom wow factor

letting in the light

My dad and Weston prep the new back door opening

New back door! Letting the light in 🙂

conquering my fear of heights!

Christine helping with paint choices!

vintage pieces I have been saving forever

future guest bath finishes

cold, tired, but happy ~ i.e. margarita time

Kitchen Cabinets 🙂

Hugging my kitchen cabinets hello

Painting bookshelves is … fun?

Found. My longtime DREAM Moroccan tile

Future Dining Room Light!! (now we just have to figure out how to get it in the building! It does not fit through the door!

And my kitchen cabinets are turning out … HUGE

HELLO Kitchen

Welcome Home reclaimed flooring!

#where’scookie

inlaid reclaimed flooring fixes this unused register

Another John butt shot for his fans

New home for my Maple Floor

Dave is saving every single piece of my maple flooring

New Master Bath Window! (Period Window Sashes from 40 Grotto) 🙂

New (reclaimed sash) Bathroom Window!

Yup. Adding MORE bookshelves of course.

Hello cute reclaimed door, goodbye ugly commercial steel door!

The Window Rehab Center

Melanie is freakishly talented at window glazing!

did I mention that I love my sister? 🙂

antique tea tables…soon to be bathroom vanities

Master bath Vanity – part antique table, part Shelburne Falls Artist’s clay sink

2 fireplaces = I should learn how to open a damper?

Literally pulled this antique brass fixture from a trash can in a salvage yard in Asheville, NC

My Dad is AMAZING.

Masonry work before and after 🙂

Italians on the job.

Saving small amounts of pretty tile for YEARS = worth. it.

Wall Up!

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Ellen Auger-Gordon says:

November 13, 2014 at 3:18 am

I am so happy for you and thrilled to see your progress. I spent countless hours at the library as a child and through high school. I wish you all the best as you enjoy your new home!

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