This Little Old House

[Paul Greathouse]

I'm going to revive this old thread to show everyone what I, my son and a few of his close friends have been working on for the past year. Actually we finished in May08. After catching up on other things that were neglected I have had time to take some pictures. I will be adding several so enjoy, I only wish I would have had the time to take more during the process of doing the work.

After gutting all the old sheetrock. There was some mold damage and we had to rewire the whole house anyway. The easiest thing to do was take it all out.


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[Paul Greathouse]

Here's some when we were putting the finishing touches on.


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[Paul Greathouse]

Heres the finished front porch, I enjoy doing porch posts and railing even more than cabinet work.



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[Paul Greathouse]

It ended up being kind of long after we added the addition on the back and the porch on the front but my son and his wife are happy with it so thats all that counts.


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[Jack Coats]

Yea, along the Gulf Coast, basements are another word for 'indoor pool'. The water table is often way to high, and much of the area has clay below the relatively thin topsoil. ... We moved from Houston where the subdivisions we lived in were all 'reclaimed' from rice patties. ... Yes, rice farming is alive and well down there, but we moved there to work for oil companies.

[Jack Coats]

Thanks for posting this great thread. ...

[Paul Greathouse]

Here's my pride and joy the kitchen I built for them. Its not the biggest one I have ever done but its defintley the best as far as quality. I was able to take my time and do thing the way I wanted. The quartersawn red oak that the cabinets are built of, were trees we salvaged from the hurricane in O5.

We had the lumber sawed on site by a portable bandsaw mill, it air dried for about a year then we hauled it to a mill and had it kiln dried and rough planed. I did all the finish planing with a little Delta lunchbox planer.

I have gotten more compliments on the doors than anything else. After seeing the finished product, a carpenter friend of my son's asked where did ya'll find all the wide boards for the door panels. I guess I jointed those 4", 6" and 8" boards pretty good, they fooled a full time carpenter.


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[Paul Greathouse]

This is a closeup of the Hutch, it has 3 large bottom drawers and 4 slideout shelves behind the doors.


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[Brent Ring]

Paul,

Very nice work. If I may ask, approximately how much was saved over buying a new home and having it built on the property?

This was a very impressive project.

[Paul Greathouse]

Some shots of the living room. The living room and Kitchen are actually one large room. There are alot of people doing this sort of layout down here.


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[Paul Greathouse]

The Master bedroom, my son and a friend laid all the Brazilian Cherry laminate floor throught the house, glad I didn't have to work on that project. My 47yo knees don't like that kind of abuse.


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[Paul Greathouse]

The master bath complete with jacuzzi tub and 8' vanity that guess who built.


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[Paul Greathouse]

These are the laminate beams in the living room that I wrapped with with oak plywood and some of the left over wood from the cabinets.

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[Paul Greathouse]

A couple of the small bath and another looking down the long hallway back to the master bedroom.


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[Paul Greathouse]

Last but defintely not least, my new granddaughters bedroom. My daughter-in-law loves to decorate.


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