Neal laid out the backsplash. We purchased square tiles, so he made SOOOO MANY cuts!
He also had to cut around the electrical outlets, so more cuts! Those orange things are spacers; this is where the mortar will be applied after all the tiles are in place. 
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Month: August 2018
Building Our Boat House/Dock
Boat House
This is our old dock (and house before renovation). Neal added on to the original dock and added the steps when we first purchased the house. (This wood looks newer in the picture.)
Here is another picture of the old dock on a beautiful day!
Dock construction begins…
Interior Construction of Our New Addition
New Addition Pictures
Below is our new master bedroom. I like this picture because it was my makeshift office. It worked! Through the studs on the far right of the picture is the master bathroom, where the garden tub will be installed.
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Renovating Our Loft
Below is a before and after picture of my craft room in the loft. 
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Installing Our Heart Pine Flooring
In preparing for the installation of our heart pine flooring, we first, had to make the floor the same level. The contractor built a frame to raise the lower floor (there was a step down in the middle of the room) and then added new plywood throughout the entire house to have a consistent and strong floor base. 
Neal found our flooring on Craigslist. Basically, we purchased several large beams from an old yarn factory in Columbus, Georgia. We took a field trip (with my Dad) to go see the factory (before they tore it down) and check out the beams. We purchased the beams and had a mill cut the beams into flooring. In the picture below (in our guest bedrooms), you can see some of the oil spots where the heavy equipment sat on the floor. It is truly rustic. 
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Renovating Our Kitchen
Kitchen
Here is a before and after of the kitchen.
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Renovating the Existing Interior of Our Lake House
Renovation of Existing Interior
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Renovating/Updating Our Patio Porch
Patio Porch on the Lakeside
Check out this before and after picture! 
Here is a picture of the basement patio (lakeside) once we cut the block and added a header to add a double window. We wanted more daylight in our basement living room. 
Here is the inside view of where we cut the block to add the double windows. 
We will show you more interior pictures of the basement living room area later in this blog post.
More patio porch project pictures:
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Click here to see how we built our outdoor fireplace on our patio porch.
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Click here to see how we wrapped the columns on the patio porch.
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Click here to see how we added old barn wood to our patio porch ceiling.
Let us know what you think by commenting below.
Construction of New Front Porch Project
Front Porch (street side)
Before we finished our front door (street side), we had to walk the plank to enter through the front door! That board (see picture below) covered the second story drop! (Remember that we lived here during renovation/construction.) 
It was such a relief when we added our porch floor! We used corrugated steel, which is very strong for the base. 
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Building on to Our Lake House
New Addition from Street View
This picture shows digging the foundation for the new construction, which includes new front entrance, master bedroom and bath upstairs and two additional bedrooms and bathrooms downstairs.
Here you can see the outline of the addition and pouring the footer.
The footing has been poured. 
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