My Home Rehab – Plumbing/Electrical Rough & Framing

The rehab is moving right along. I went by this morning, and there was something wrong w/ my camera flash so most of the pics didn’t come out. It doesn’t really matter that much, though, because pictures of plumbing & electrical aren’t really worth looking at.

Here’s a pic of the kitchen bar that’s been framed in. You can see to the back & right of it that a lot of other framing work was done. The framing behind the kitchen bar is the master bathroom – it turned out to be pretty huge, which was a very nice surprise. Oh, one other surprise we had was when we demo’ed the half wall on the loft – you can see here that the original builder/architect used a steel I-beam to support the loft. He was pretty serious about this home when he designed it.
Here’s a photo of the front closet. Nothing really much to see here, but the plumbing has been run to convert this to the half bath. Again, plumbing rough isn’t a lot of fun to take pictures of.

So…that’s where we are right now. We’re about 2 days ahead of schedule & slightly under budget. I’m meeting with Lane, the welder, this evening to talk about the loft rail design. He’s going to start fabricating it this week to install next week.

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September 12, 2007

Looking good Eric. Are you adding additional square footage to your home, or just rehabbing what’s there? Good luck staying under budget. Your wife must be nothing like mine. :)

September 12, 2007

Thanks Barry! The home is already 3000 s.f. & it’s just going to be my girlfriend & me, so we’re not adding anything on. We’re doing some major re-working of the interior structure – architecturally, the interior design was not functional at all. Luckily, we’re staying at my girlfriend’s house until the work is complete, then we’ll rent hers out & move into mine.

September 13, 2007

Awesome. Can’t wait to see the finished product. Were in the same boat. I can’t figure out whether I want to rehab our house, or just move on to a house that is better suited to our needs.

April 12, 2008

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