We live on the corner of a fairly busy
residential road. While we generally ignore the traffic, we realized as we worked on the house this summer that they do not ignore us. Initially we noticed that people would slow down as they passed the house. As we took more notice of the
gawkers, we found ourselves giggling when we'd see them, mouths open, trying to figure out what our overall plan was with our house. We'd already had a plethora of comments about our fence, and they didn't stop once we started working on the house. I posted a previous blog post about the guy who told Jarred he could have really screwed the fence up, had he not had an eye for design. He came back once we had the siding up and spent about a half an hr. grilling Jarred on siding. Upon
returning to work, I received a number of questions about our overall plan for the house, why we picked the materials we did,
ect....I'm not sure if everyone liked what we were doing, but they sure were curious.
As most of you know, Jarred is a busy guy. He's so busy and sees so much to do in the world, he's notorious for starting one project or hobby, doing it for awhile and then just moving on. This habit has allowed him many adventures, but it doesn't bode well with large house projects. We knew that ripping the siding off the house would be a big project as we would need to replace rotten studs, the windows we were putting in were not the same size as the old windows, we needed to put all new
soffits in and replace a good portion of the
fascia boards. We also needed to re-do the interior dining room and had aspirations of putting a climbing wall in, instead of boring old sheet-rock. I was a bit worried that we'd get a week or two into the project, Jarred would get bored and we'd have a half finished house for the next year or so. Luckily, for some reason, Jarred got into this project. He was
diligent and worked super hard all summer. He also proved his stellar skills as a carpenter and made me appreciate the fact that I live with someone who isn't afraid to dig in and do it himself. Overall, he managed really well. Nothing on our house was straight anymore (if it ever was) and I think that and the negligent past owners, practically drove Jarred crazy but he persevered and we actually had most of the siding done by the time school started.
I like this photo- shows the true ghetto of the old siding.
I also appreciate Jarred's eye for design. He's constantly thinking about design and new ideas and while I complain that most of them don't come to fruition, I guess I should appreciate the ones that do, because they're usually great.
As most of you know, Jarred is a busy guy. He's so busy and sees so much to do in the world, he's notorious for starting one project or hobby, doing it for awhile and then just moving on. This habit has allowed him many adventures, but it doesn't bode well with large house projects. We knew that ripping the siding off the house would be a big project as we would need to replace rotten studs, the windows we were putting in were not the same size as the old windows, we needed to put all new soffits in and replace a good portion of the fascia boards. We also needed to re-do the interior dining room and had aspirations of putting a climbing wall in, instead of boring old sheet-rock. I was a bit worried that we'd get a week or two into the project, Jarred would get bored and we'd have a half finished house for the next year or so. Luckily, for some reason, Jarred got into this project. He was diligent and worked super hard all summer. He also proved his stellar skills as a carpenter and made me appreciate the fact that I live with someone who isn't afraid to dig in and do it himself. Overall, he managed really well. Nothing on our house was straight anymore (if it ever was) and I think that and the negligent past owners, practically drove Jarred crazy but he persevered and we actually had most of the siding done by the time school started.
I like this photo- shows the true ghetto of the old siding.
I also appreciate Jarred's eye for design. He's constantly thinking about design and new ideas and while I complain that most of them don't come to fruition, I guess I should appreciate the ones that do, because they're usually great.
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