Restoration I've been working on last couple of years

[Bill Pritchard]

Is a portion of the new house still the old house? If so, I sure can't tell it! Looks great.

I see an empty Monster Energy drink can in the dirt under what I think is the new garage. I think I'd need about a hundred thousand of those to do all the work you and your son have done!

[Donnie]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

Is a portion of the new house still the old house? If so, I sure can't tell it! Looks great.

Bill, from the garage forward the main floor is original built sometime in the 1880's. the basement was about 12'x12' made of stones that they plowed up working the fields.
the rest was crawl space. had to pick the house up and dig it out now I have a real basement.
but I did keep two and a half walls of the original stone basement.

we had to sawzall the second floor off. only had 5 3/4" floor joist no way to run duct work for heating.
by keeping part of the original structure its only considered a remodel not new construction for tax purposes.

Charley, you always second guess yourself on some part of a project. but for me it wasn't the restoration part its the interior layout that I sometimes think... should I have done it different.

TimG, from what I understand lots of people thought I was nuts. but now that its almost finished there's no talk about it anymore.

[Bill Pritchard]

Originally Posted by Donnie

by keeping part of the original structure its only considered a remodel not new construction for tax purposes.

Smart idea......no place I've ever lived made any concession for something like that.

[Charley Lillard]

Amazing. Looks good. Did you ever second guess on if you just should have started from scratch ?

[wheelhop]

Beautiful job Donnie, I think I visited your project about 3 or 4 years ago maybe?
Isn't that your grandma's old house?

[BJCHEV396]

Kudos Donnie....great job!

[mockingbird812]

Wow, what a huge job the two of you took on! That’s fantastic! Congratulations!

Your pretty white L78 will look just right in front of this beautiful home!

[TimG]

That looks great. Someone in our neighborhood did a similar thing with an old house and at first everyone questioned what he was doing. The final product turned out beautiful, like yours.

[A12pilot]

That is FANTASTIC!!

You gotta be very proud of that for sure. Very nice!!

Cheers
Dave

[Postsedan]

I have been watching this project from afar.

Donnie - You should be extemely proud.
As I am very proud of you.

I know it was a long long project....but now you can enjoy all your hard work.

Well done my friend

Dan