This edition of our 80 year old house remodel is full of big machinery. The basement is backfilled and our trusses are raised. High. Check out the video on that! We start with backfilling The Hole with a rented skid steer. That is a relief – one ...
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Old House Remodel 4 – The Basement Gets a Roof
In the fourth installment of our 80 year old house remodel, the new basement gets a roof. Things start to go wrong as framing begins. As we continue our old house remodel and addition, things continue to be built in the upward direction. The ...
Old House Remodel – 3: Dig a Hole
In this edition of our Dear Old House Remodel, excavation begins and rain continues. I prepare a giant steel beam for the basement, and concrete work commences. May 16: Once upon a time a giant hole appeared in my yard. That’s about how fast ...
80 Year Old House Remodel – 2
Work has begun on our 80 year old house remodel! Join us as we start with demolition! Our entryway is doomed! It’s a bit, ok, incredibly surreal that work has started on our old house remodel. It is May, and we begin with the entryway vestibule. ...
80 Year Old House Remodel – 1
Welcome to our old house remodel. We moved to our home on 80 acres in Manitoba in 2006. We absolutely love our property, but we always intended to do something about the house. Then life happened: kids, job changes, mind changes! But now we are ...
I'm Erika, I live on eighty acres in the northern prairies of southern Manitoba with my husband and four kids. Here, we enjoy the outdoors and try to be more self sufficient as we try new things in the garden and learn about our land and the world around us.