Our House Remodel

Project: Enlarge kitchen, add media room in a new lower floor, relocate guest bedroom to lower floor add bathroom on lower floor.

Final Results

Construction Started: April 9th, 2004.

Initial Estimated Project Completion Date: January 15th, 2005.

Actual Project Completion Date: June 6, 2005

Contractor: Bauman Construction

Craig Bauman "The Boss"	Todd Site Foreman	Bradley	Jose
	Working hard! Reading the paper during lunch break.

Architect: Gary Kohlsaat

Interior Designer: Ann Fiorio

• Daily Log A time series of images from each day of the construction
  
• Current Progress
  • Snapshots of current room status.
• Completed Stages
  • Excavation: completed ~Tuesday 5/4.
  • Foundation & Block Walls Wednesday 6/30
  • Rough Work
    • Lower Level Framing ~Tuesday 7/27
    • Upper Framing
    • Rough Plumbing: began ~8/12 last visit before inspection 10/11.
    • Rough Electric: began 8/23 last visit before inspection 10/13 plus soffit on 10/25-26.
    • Rough inspection 10/13.
    • Insullation 10/15 - 10/18.
  • Finish Work:
    • Drywall
      • Hanging: 10/27 - 10/28
      • Taping: 11/1 - 11/9
    • Outside
      • Trim
      • Stucco
    • 11/12 Progress - Drywall done, prime and new interior plumbing.
    • 12/3 Progress - Doors, stucco, trim.
    • 12/10 Progress - Staircase, some cabinets.
    • 12/17 Progress - Kitchen cabinets, initial guest bath tile.
    • 12/24 Progress - More tile, cabinets and finish carpentry.
    • 1/13 Progress - Slate, Painting, Initial hardwood floors.
    • 1/28 Progress - Granite Countertops, hardwood issues.
    • 2/12 Progress - Cabinet painting & plaster repairs
    • 3/4 Progress - More cabinets, flooring and fireplace.
    • 3/14 Progress - More cabinets, island slab and fireplace tile.
    • 3/27 Progress - appliances, light fixtures, fireplace face complete, more painting.
    • 5/4 Passed Final - only a couple of small items left!
    • 6/6 Final Payment - project complete!
    • 8/11 Cabinet doors and faces have changed color need to strip and repaint (picked up 11/4 finished 12/6)
  • Fireplace Masonry
  • Ooops! Bobcat flip...
• Original House

Current Progress

Pictures of the final project

After taking several months to relax and live in the house we've now starting to finish up some final stuff and do the remaining decorating (window coverings, furniture, pictures etc). Below are links to things we've updated since completing the project:

Master Bathroom: (12/21/2005). We've started to finish the mirror area in our master bathroom.

Pam's Office: (12/14/2005) We finally finished the bookshelves in Pam's office!

Master Bedroom Curio: No progress yet but scheduled for week of 12/26.

Shelves for dinning room built-in: Spring 2006?