Things are progressing fast at the Ferret & Hound Homestead. While for the first couple of months (the design phase) it seemed like this project was never going to happen, for the past 2-3 weeks the "landscape" has changed substantially.
As I have mentioned before, we bought our property mainly for two reasons - we loved the land and the original horse barn, and while we utterly disliked the existing house, it had the advantage of having a full basement that we could build on.
These two panoramas were taken at the end of April, as you can tell from the brown and leafless landscape. The first photo is taken from the road. The house is a little bit too close to the road for our liking but we are going to change the driveway and plant some trees which will more or less hide the house, even though it is a quiet scenic country road. The second photo is taken from the back end of the property and shows the back of the house and about 2/3 of the total width of the property. (Click on the photos to see an enlarged version).
Then, about 3 weeks ago, demolition finally started... the front:
The back:
And this was yesterday. There is still some demolition to be done, like the stairs, the back exterior wall and all the siding but this is pretty much the structure that is staying.
After that, excavation for the new part on the back of the house starts early next week, as well as the pouring for the new foundation and a concrete slab for the new garage. Stay tuned...
1 comments:
Looks like its moving right along.
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