wallyfarmhouse
we're learning how to renovate our 120-year-old farmhouse located in the Wallingford neighborhood of Seattle. here are the before and after photos to document the changes and all of the challenges in between
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Porch-acation!
We were going to go camping in the Olympics or maybe Glacier National Park, but instead decided to take off from work the last week in August to tear down our sagging, rotting porch and rebuild it. Simple right? Well we got it done, but the project’s size and scope ebbed and flowed along the way. We forgot to take photos early on, so by now you’ve missed the demolition of the original scraped together porch (it did last over 100 years though!). You’re also missing how we used five hydraulic jacks to hold up the porch roof while we took away the supports and shoveled eight holes and then filled them in with gravel and concrete to place new pillars and posts. By this photo we’re already framing in the new porch flour with treated 8x10’s (we might have overbuilt it, but hey at least we won’t worry about it falling down.
