We love a good remodel Part 6 - All done!

Wow. What a wild ride.....

The spaces are designed perfectly to compliment each other

All the corner window look awesome and really give homage to the existing house. Remember that detail?

Uhhh.  So great. Love the ceiling and floor height changes. It really defines the spaces.  The drop ceiling will eventually have wood slats installed.  There is an LED rope light along the edge.  Very classy.

Looking down into the master bedroom.  Douglas fir doors and windows, with maple trim.

This house is just flooded with natural light.  Our clients great taste in furniture and art make us all look good!

Sadie sitting in the sunshine

The cabinets were custom made to hold our clients specific appliances and flatware

The new entry. No we haven't completed the front deck yet. I tried to hide this fact behind the bush.

Looking from the living room into the kitchen. If you can see the Tulikivi, it is providing heat for that area. Amazing piece of engineering.

To save room in the guest bath (and to look modern) we used an inside the wall toilet.  Super clean look.

Sadie sits next to the fireplace because it radiates heat all day long after the morning fire.

Ceaser stone countertops. The clients choose black not only for aesthetics, but also to get some solar gain from the sun that comes in through the large windows all day.

Appliance garage and the perfect fit for their microwave.  Details matter!

The Tulkivi has a back oven!  Our clients make pizzas and all sorts of good stuff in there.  I love how the soapstone hearth is at the same level as the wood floor.  One of my pet peeves are large transitions between floor surfaces. That's not allowed on my projects.  

Sorry for so many pics of Sadie.  She was our buddy on the job and I love dogs.

Remember that front door we installed.  WOW!

The carpenters did a superb job installing the metal. Looks so good against the wood door!

I love the different stucco colors and metal together. 

Looks like one house, not four remodels on top of each other. The large tree is very happy we are done.

Horrible shot, but I wanted  to post something of the exterior.  

Damn that looks good!

We love a good remodel! Part 5 Almost there.......

By now our customers are excited to get in and get us out!  Even the smoothest remodel has an emotional toll on the homeowner.  I try and remind them to enjoy themselves as much as possible. Working on someones house is about as serious as working on their body.  It doesn't get much more personal.

We have passed all inspection, dryall is up, let's starting mudding

The Tulikivi came in a bunch of pieces.  Now you just have to put it together.

Remember that large hole in the ground?  Now the fireplace has a perfectly stable and level pad to be built upon.  This was put together in two days

Graywater harvest is standard practice on all our projects. Some systems are simple, some are complex.  This house has a gravity feed from the laundry to the front and this all in one system takes the water from both showers and pumps it to the front landscaping. So simple!

We only use electric heat to dry out our houses during construction. Using propane is a no-no because the fumes get injected into the  framing and drywall.  Causing indoor air quality issues.  We used several of the existing houses light fixture in the new home.

Cabinets are in and ready for countertop template.  Our clients liked the clean modern look of quarter sawn maple.

The entire metal roof is installed.  Whew, a sign of relief knowing we are good to go no matter what rain comes.

Custom made douglas fir front door built by Rogue Valley Doors right here in the valley.   Be careful guys!

Wow.  Looks great. Now it's time for the metal

Wood floors are starting.  Our clients chose a 5" character grade maple from Green Mountain Woodworks right here in Talent!

We love a good remodel! Part 4 Shell and systems

All dried in!  Now lets start on the "guts" and skin of the house.

Pex piping is used for water lines. Color code makes it easy to know if you are looking at a hot water line or not.  The tankless hot water heater is up in the conditioned attic space centrally located to serve the entire house.

Purple is for graywater :)

This large hole in the middle of the floor goes all the way down to hard native soil. Then we filled it with concrete and it acts as the footing for our 5,000lb masonry fireplace

The entire house is wrapped in 1" of foam to eliminate all thermal bridging

We finished the metal sections first so the stucco will cleanly die into it at the inside corners

We used R-MAX on the areas that we left 2x4 walls to get a little more R-value.

We are doing more and more of the corrugated metal on projects. I love it. Super durable, firewise and maintenance free.

Ready for the stucco brown coat

I love it when a plan comes together

The stucco goes right up to the clad windows.  I like this because the windows act as a trim color.  It is also very water and air tight.

We love a good remodel! Part 3 Framing

Finally we are done with demo and get to start building something, a house I guess.  This was a VERY challenging site due to it's location at the top of a dirt driveway on the side of a steep hill!

Trusses being delivered.  The crane could only get them so close. It was up to us to get them on the house

Time to get the pile of trusses onto the plates

First truss coming in.  We built a slack line to transport the trusses from the top of the hill down to the house.  We used an electric wench to raise and lower the trusses.   It was awesome.

Setting these trusses on the plates was one of the most rewarding days of work I have had.  It was an incredible challenge.

We always use plywood for all wall and floor sheathing.  OSB is not very durable, especially when building through the winter.

The largest truss was about 500 lbs.  They are all set and ready to be rolled.

You can see how we were finishing areas before moving onto the next section

Final section - Master bedroom

Tarped roof.  There's that electrical meter next to the new entry.

Finally all the roof sections are sheathed and dried in.

We were able to keep all the old wall framing in the master bedroom area.

Hey, now that looks like something

It is always fun to leave some goodies in the walls for future builders to find. We always find things left behind when we take apart old houses.  It is a way for a carpenter to say "hi" to the next carpenter.

Finally, windows!