After the Vines and old shrubs and dying trees were removed… the house looked like this….
New foundation was built about 40 feet behind it because we really wanted to
get off the immediate roadside with kids and animals residing here, etc…
Then the painstaking work of taking down the house, saving it’s bones
and bits and pieces… thanks to the help of good friend and restoration
expert Jeff Klausen –
The old house rear view … with new foundation waiting….
Piecing her back together on the new foundation….
Before shot…
Same location now….
So, you may notice that we added a dog leg to the original house…
See LARGE WINDOW area.
THAT house.. was also an 1830’s federal that was at the base of the Chester Airport
runway and the new owners of the airport wanted it gone. Jeff took it down
in 2005 and stored it for a while…then Mike and Jeff brainstormed to make that house
our family room and loft/pool/bar room.
Chester house before take down.
And I just had to share this with you… how much we age in five years.
Below is a picture of Ben and I during that same summer of 2009….
*sigh*
Time flies, friends. Time flies.
