fireplace

some of our friends from beaufort came up to asheville to visit this week.
they came over to see all of our progress...

tonight, we built our first fire in our newly fixed fireplace!

drywall

front door

foyer looking towards library

foyer looking into living room

library

library before

library windows. original to the house.

before

library fireplace

library fireplace

living room looking towards foyer

before

dining room

before

dining room

before

dining room

dining room looking into living room

before.
we had to take out the arched door to rebuild the rotten corner.

living room fireplace. ready for the woodstove!

new windows in the new reading loft.

fireplace

drywall!

the drywall is coming along.

here's an update!

library

october

today 

october

early december

today

october

early december

today

the dining room

october

early december

today

october

early december

today

october

november!!!

today

the den

more adventure in the land of drywall to come!!!

a functioning fireplace!

so, if you've been keeping up with the blog, you know we have a pretty sweet three sided fireplace! today, we're getting that sucker going! the fireplace is an old coal burning heat source. we are going to make two of the openings be functioning for small pieces of wood aka ambiance. the third opening will host a woodstove, to help heat the house. 

with bricks that look like this, it seems we're going to need a little something to hold her together

looking down the flu from the roof

 a liner!!!

dropping in a liner

drop her down

looking in the flu before the liner

after the liner was dropped, the concrete was poured

and some groovy caps!

looking good!

new woodstove!

uncovering things

tuesday

the interior is moving along. the rotten corner is now fully unrotten. it has been restructured and supported is now good to go!  we have finished all the cross ties which will be exposed in our newly vaulted ceiling.  we are now laying the new ceiling joists in the dining room and living room.  the ceilings in these rooms will be brought up about a foot or so... to be approximately 10 feet!

new/roof ceiling

front windows/living room windows

 as we are uncovering things, we are starting to realize some new issues we have to address!
no header!
luckily this is not a load bearing wall.

foyer window
nine foot window...once again, no header.  

looks like these windows are going to have to take out these windows and build a header. 

this is a load bearing wall.

dining room windows

 more pictures of the ceiling joists being built....

dining room

rebuilding the ceiling joists

standing in the living room looking across thru the dining room into the library.
and our three sided fireplace.