Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Wide Open Spaces
The site as it looks today. Right after this picture was taken they were about to start digging the hole. They took out 6 trees and made the driveway considerably easier to get up. There is still one tree to remove after the power wires are buried.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Tomorrow is the big day
After three years of planning and discussion, eight months of work on the plans and six months since the signing of the contract, we are on the eve of construction of our new log house at the lake. So exciting!
Today was a bittersweet day as we went to the old cottage to try to save a few of the old logs. The house was having none of being torn apart by hand, and not wanting the walls to collapse on us, we finally decided not to try any further. Our kind neighbors said that they might try to pull a few of the logs for us when the excavator comes to begin demolition.
Currently our lakefront lot has a circa 1940 log house that is 700 square feet built on stacks of rocks. Although the little house has been a much-loved friend, it is just too small for our family of four and does not allow us to invite guests to stay at the lake with us. There is no way to move, add on, build up or otherwise utilize the current structure into a new house, and so the decision was made to raze the house and put up a beautiful new log home with 5 bedrooms, game room, 3.5 baths, and modern kitchen.
Today was a bittersweet day as we went to the old cottage to try to save a few of the old logs. The house was having none of being torn apart by hand, and not wanting the walls to collapse on us, we finally decided not to try any further. Our kind neighbors said that they might try to pull a few of the logs for us when the excavator comes to begin demolition.
Currently our lakefront lot has a circa 1940 log house that is 700 square feet built on stacks of rocks. Although the little house has been a much-loved friend, it is just too small for our family of four and does not allow us to invite guests to stay at the lake with us. There is no way to move, add on, build up or otherwise utilize the current structure into a new house, and so the decision was made to raze the house and put up a beautiful new log home with 5 bedrooms, game room, 3.5 baths, and modern kitchen.
I will definitely miss the little house and the inviting glow of its aged logs.
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