Hello again! We left you with our den in pieces. It got a little worse, and then much better after that. Over the course of about a week, Jason (with a little help from Garreth to wrestle timbers into place) gave us back a beautiful room that is now significantly more structurally sound. But before we got to that point, the other half of the wall had to come out...
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| The original wall from the outside, with crooked sashes and siding. |
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| The original wall from inside, with horribly fitting window and botched-together bracing. |
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| All new picture window! |
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| New timber going in... |
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| And new siding! |
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| Notice the mix of old and newly-milled siding... |
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| Garreth got up bright and early to put primer on the new wood. |
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| Wood trim going back in along with new insulation. |
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| New drywall... |
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| Fresh primer... |
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| And finally getting to move back in! |
Jason even replaced the worst sections of the rotten flooring and evened out the baseboard that looked like it had been reshaped with a hatchet.
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| Repaired flooring. |
A couple of days later, while having breakfast, we found a little bonus gift on our kitchen mantle. Last spring, a good friend of ours, talented photographer and fellow old-house owner, Watson Brown, gave us this lovely portrait he took of our house. While demolishing our den, Jason somehow had time to custom-make a frame for it using original siding from the house that he wasn't able to reuse as siding and even sunk some of the rose-head nails into the wood for a decorative flourish. I literally teared up a little bit.
Finally, we'll leave you with this, on this gorgeous spring day!!
New to this. Thrilled to have found your blog. I am a direct descendent of the Foremans who lived in Greenwreath. Sons of Wm. Sherrod Foreman and Elizabeth Williams, John Ivey Foreman and Richard Robert came to Arkansas in 1852. My brother, John Ivey Christopher Foreman now lives in Rehobeth Beach. He is now 84. Hope he can see Greenwreath sometime.
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