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Our Log Home Exterior Renovations
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Dara The Roots of Home
(IC: blogger)
When we bought our new (old) log home about a year and a half ago, we knew it needed a massive amount of work. But we also knew it could be amazing. Here is what the house looked like when we bought it.
Because it had been empty for over two years, the most important thing was to secure the structure. The roof was the original from 1989 and was leaking. But before we got a beautiful new roof, we wanted to waterproof and add stone to the main chimney. That was a good call because many stones and chunks of mortar came sliding down the old roof during this during the process. See the top of that chimney? It's about 36 feet off the ground. I literally could not even watch the stone mason up there. Every single bump and sliding noise sent me running to the window to make sure he hadn't fallen off.
At this point we made one of the biggest changes to the house, the one that I have always been the most nervous about. We painted the shakes and trim. Before, the entire house looked to us like one big blob of grey-brown wood. The details kind of got lost. But many of the shakes and facia boards were rotten and had to be replaced and had to be repainted or re-stained anyway. We felt like it needed some color to break it all up,but it's quite non-traditional for this style of house. After pouring over hundreds of log home photos, I found very few with color on them. But we liked the idea of a color, so we did it.
After the roof was done, we had the old wooden gutters replaced because they could best be described as....ineffective.
During this whole time, the stonework scope of work began to expand. The exterior stonework had never been completed and much of the foundation was also still cinder block like the chimneys. That big pile of stone we found at the edge of the woods turned out to be enough to finish the stonework on the foundation. What a difference it made!
So now we have a structurally solid house and it's looking a lot better. Stay tuned because we are still working!
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Published May 22nd, 2015 10:10 AM
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Davie Adam on Feb 20, 2017all I can say is, what a beautiful home,
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