If you can remember back that far (and were lucky enough to be invited over) here is our lovely little abode back in the summer of 2006, about a year after we bought the place and moved in. Over the past six years we changed very little about the way the house looked from the curb.
Until last Thursday when this happened. We lost our roof.
Well, technically we hired some folks to take it off for us and by the looks of it they did a great job! In fact, they knocked this out in just one day. If you look closely you can see that along with the roof, they removed the two small "dormers" that were on the roof. We found it a bit interesting, but not totally surprising, that the dormers were purely decorative. They didn't provide any venting to the attic at all. This turned out to be less work for the roofers (no holes to fill) so we didn't complain too much.
From this view you can also see the part of the project that I skipped over- the new brick columns that popped up on either side of the porch in place of the three white columns that were formerly across the front.
They tried to match the bricks to the house, and we think they got pretty close even though if you look really close you can tell the mortar is actually a bit darker than the original mortar used on the house.
Here is where most of our roof ended up, in a massive dumpster located in our drive way. Not the most attractive addition to the yard, but at least its a rather short walk if you need to throw something away.
So there is the house and the dumpster as well as the lumber that will be used to frame up our new gable roof that will go over the porch. Aside from the fact that we are the temporary eyesore of the neighborhood, we are pretty pumped to finally get this project underway.
