Posts from the ‘sleeping porch’ Category
- On the hunt for antique window trim and making it up as I go along on September 6th, 2012
After a week away, we’re back online here at the Old Rowhouse. After the week of Steve came to a frenzied close, I left to join the ladies in Atlanta with her family before leaving for South Carolina Saturday morning for a weeklong vacation with all of mine. Thirteen of us under one roof in [...]
- In which I learned that I was actually building a boudoir on July 2nd, 2012
At some point during the long slog through this upstairs sleeping porch project, maybe while picking out light fixtures for the ceiling, Rachel let me know that this was no ordinary dressing room/storage area/place for clothes and stuff. It was to be a fancy boudoir. And though I nixed the idea of dual chandeliers in [...]
- What to do? Insulating and covering up the roof hatch on June 6th, 2012
Things are nearly ready to reveal on the upstairs sleeping porch, but the last major remaining item (other than installing the light fixtures and fan on the ceiling and casing the windows) is figuring out how to insulate and cover the roof access over one of the closets. And once again, I turn to the internet [...]
- Checking in on the upstairs porch project on May 23rd, 2012
If you’re like me and you prefer books with pictures, you might want to go ahead and quit reading this post. Nothing else looks real different just yet on the upstairs sleeping porch — though things have definitely changed! Here’s where we stand on the updated list of jobs and where they stand. And yes, I [...]
- At long last, insulating the porch ceiling on May 15th, 2012
About ten months ago, I was trying to figure out the best way to insulate the ceiling of our upstairs sleeping porch. Our upstairs sleeping porch was once just a porch, so it has no attic space. After tearing down the old dropped ceiling and pulled out the old insulation, all that’s left between our [...]
- Wrapping up the new closets on May 10th, 2012
Honey needs some closet space! For a year and a half, Rachel’s been using these sad Ikea wardrobes in the sleeping porch for her closet. And the closet in the 2nd bedroom, when not under construction. And I should mention, this porch is blazing hot all summer long and freezing in the winter. I’ve had [...]
- Building the new porch closets, part deux on May 8th, 2012
After just two full weekends and a few odd nights here and there, the new sleeping porch closets are about 75 percent done. When we last left this project, I had framed and drywalled the first closet, but hadn’t put in any trim or doors yet. We were out of town this past weekend on [...]
- Getting started on the sleeping porch project: building a closet on April 23rd, 2012
I don’t have a long step-by-step story about this one yet, because I’m going to break my own blogging rules and publish photos of a half-finished project and let the cat out of the bag before I’m done. Here’s the progress on the closet I spent the weekend building in the sleeping porch upstairs, which [...]
- Even our finished things are never quite finished on October 19th, 2011
As you might remember, we’re furiously working to finish a few key projects before my brother, his family and my mom come for a visit in a week and a half so my brother can run his first marathon — the Marine Corps Marathon. The most crucial part is the guest bedroom, which still has [...]
- Help! My ceiling insulation dilemma on August 23rd, 2011
Ok, before I drone on and on about it — and I will — let me just get my problem out there and sum it all up. I need some advice. Our upstairs sleeping porch was once just a porch, so it has no attic space. After tearing down the old dropped ceiling and pulled out the [...]
