Mind’s been in the gutter
Just in time for the rainy season the house and barn are getting new gutters. The house never had any when we bought it and it looks nicer having them on, and I’m sure it will help preserve the siding … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Garage
Back to Painting (or painting the back)
I mentioned the lengthy paint job on the church earlier this month, well I’ve had an ongoing paint project myself. There isn’t really a painting season in Ferndale, you grab days here and there when it is sunny enough, dry … Continue reading →
The Red Front Barn
Those of you who aren’t Ferndalers won’t get the pun in the title, so I have to explain that in town we have a market called the Red Front Store. I’m finally finished painting the front of the barn. I … Continue reading →
Getting Organized
With my new workspace in my garage, I’ve been very inspired to get all my tools organized so that I can spend more time working on projects instead of searching for my tools. So today I totally reorganized my three … Continue reading →
More Paint
I’ve been doing a lot of painting lately, and still have way more to go. I’m starting to think this may be the only project I work on for the rest of the summer.
Playing Hooky
It’s been very drippy in Ferndale lately, if it’s not outright raining, the fog has been heavy enough that it might as well be raining. So painting days have been few and far between. Today we finally got a break … Continue reading →
Adding Some Color
Over a few days and in between rain showers I was able to get the top of the front painted. I’m really glad I got the loan of the scaffolding, but I’ll still be happier working down on the ground.
Ceiling Fan
A few weeks ago I was on my way to the post office when I noticed a ceiling fan for sale in front of the Mercantile store for $25. Since I was planning to put a fan in the workshop … Continue reading →
Electrical
Once the crew from DCI Builders finished with the shell, I got to work installing the electrical. I was hoping to use some of the existing wiring from the original garage, but every circuit that I opened up had problems. … Continue reading →
Computer Museum
The area over the posts in the front of the motorcycle garage has this neat little alcove that I thought would be a great place to display my computer museum. I’ve been saving most of the computers that I’ve used … Continue reading →
Fly Over
Today I got another ride in the CDF helicopter, and like the two previous years when I got to go up in it, we ended up flying directly over our house. That makes it pretty hard to get a picture … Continue reading →
It’s Got Doors
Just a few days after getting both vehicles moved into the garage, I found that I had been evicted. I came home to find the garage doors installed, or at least partly. They weren’t hooked up to the lifters yet … Continue reading →
Roofing Goes On
In an amazing bit of luck, it never rained while we had the roof off of the garage. Paul Cosentino of Redwood Empire Roofing worked on the roof which was nice since he’s a member of the Ferndale Fire Department. … Continue reading →
Indoor Parking
Worked on cleaning the garage of all the construction materials so that we could get both cars in. Putting the car in the garage is such a foreign concept for us since we haven’t been able to do that since … Continue reading →
Stable Doors
Today they finished putting up the four stable doors for the motorcycle garage. These are dutch doors which will provide some good photo opportunities once the garage is painted. We’re waiting for the garage doors to be delivered which should … Continue reading →
More Progress
The garage now has new siding so pretty soon I’ll be slapping up some colors to test. It’s going to be barn red, with tan trim. This is the back side where my workshop is. The windows were left over … Continue reading →
Stalls
Lori’s idea for the garage was to give each motorcycle it’s own “stall” and I thougth that was a pretty clever idea so we went with it. There will eventually be dutch doors on each stall.
Roof’s On
Just another progress shot of the garage. You might be getting sick of these, but at least there have been pictures this month. It really is nice to be able to get the bikes in and out so easily. I … Continue reading →
Recycling
Here’s the latest on the garage. The posts from the old front porch are in and I’m glad we had them around to reuse. They’re really going to add to the architectural interest of the building.
Taking Shape
The rear addition is starting to take shape. It sure is fun just walking around the shell, planning where all the workshop stuff is going to go. As we’ve dismantled the old garage a bit I’m finding that parts of … Continue reading →
Drive Right In
Well we can finally get from the road to our garage without having to cross any dirt, or as the case has been lately, without crossing any mud. The concrete in the foreground is the porch for the motorcycle garage. … Continue reading →
Framing Begins
Yesterday the framers showed up and started working on the two additions. Today they are continueing the framing, and when I left for work they had just started pouring the final bit of concrete. I don’t know how many total … Continue reading →
What’s behind door number 2?
As you can see, the garage safely completed its journey west. In the first step towards becoming a two car garage, a hole was cut for the second bay. Since the existing door is kind of trashed, we’ll be getting … Continue reading →
Moving Day
With the slabs all poured it was time to move the garage forward. For my directorial debut, I’ve even included a short movie showing the first part of the move. Sorry my first movie is rather boring. It’s about as … Continue reading →
New Concrete
In addition to dragging home historic concrete, our yard is recently boasting a new foundation. Actually, this is only part of it, there is still one more pour for the back section that will become the workshop, and the aprons … Continue reading →
Packing Day
Since our existing garage is going to be moved during the construction of the new garage, I have to get everything out of there. So today I started packing stuff up. It’s going to be several days of drudgery to … Continue reading →
Breaking Ground
As promised, the crew from DCI Builders showed up this morning to start work on the new garage. Hard to believe that we’re finally proceeding. I think we started this project about 4 years ago. It sure will be nice … Continue reading →
Cleaning Up My Dump
Construction on my long delayed garage remodel is finally supposed to start this week. That meant I had to clean up the wood pile that had been building in the area in front of it. Took me the whole weekend, … Continue reading →
All Tucked In
Thursday was a very busy day for me schedule wise. As mentioned before, I started the day with my ambulance ride along. Then I had a photoshoot at the Gingerbread Mansion, which I had to break into two sessions in … Continue reading →