A Place to Call Home
2023年5月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F
Roxanne purchases an original tiny house 2 blocks away from Pioneer Park. This will be a fun renovation project and, once completed, a great way to stay close to family and have a comfortable homeもっと詳しく
A New Sewer Line
2023年8月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
The sewer line was attached to the neighbors. The City of Billings recommends separating to avoid issues. The little house gets its own sewer line and a required clean out feature.
Demo Part #1
2023年10月18日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 66 °F
To ready for the renovation, first out with the old. The walls and old carpeting are pulled up. Old wiring and plumbing is removed. Appliances and kitchen is removed.
Demo Part #2
2023年11月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 43 °F
The first demo revealed a concrete pour was used inside the house to level the floor. We removed all of that concrete. We may need to jack the house in some places in order to level up the floors. Ifもっと詳しく
Planning and Prep
2023年11月20日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 52 °F
Brice did a bit more clean up and then we planned and measured for beam support both temporary and permanent to allow the ceilings to be lofted throughout the house. We measured window and door spaceもっと詳しく
Cross Beam Install
2023年11月21日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 55 °F
Brice installs a cross beam the entire length of the house to get ready to vault the ceiling.
Opening Up the Ceiling Space
2023年11月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 52 °F
With the header support beam in place and standing on two solid upright support beams the ceiling cross boards are ready to be removed. About 90% as open as it will eventually be. Just a few cuts leftもっと詳しく
Opening up the ceilings more
2023年11月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 23 °F
There are parts of the old roof that aren’t giving any support. When the addition was added the carpenter didn’t take out any old parts. These parts were adding unnecessary weight and blockingもっと詳しく
Taking out the old floor
2023年11月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °F
Removed most of the old floor, getting access to the crawl space.
The Crawl Space - Underbelly
2024年2月10日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 41 °F
This is the rough and unglamorous part of a remodel. The dirt crawl space and the shoring and leveling of an old crooked house isn’t where the ooos and aaahs are at, but it a vital part for goingもっと詳しく
Planning and Drawing
2024年2月12日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 46 °F
Doors off / Doors on
2024年3月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
Brice gets the Lowe’s front door and patio door installed. Windows arrived finally. Brice got those installed. Some new siding should hide all her blemishes.
Wrapping the crawlspace
2024年4月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
This heavy plastic sheeting with reinforced nylon webbing inside the plastic makes a strong vapor, dust and moisture barrier and less dusty area to complete the rest of the plumbing, electrical andもっと詳しく
One woman's trash is another one's patio
2024年4月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
One day the neighbor was getting a new driveway poured. The old driveway was put in front of the little house on the street. Brice being the resourceful and out of the box thinker that he is talkedもっと詳しく
Plumbing, electrical and gas lines
2024年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 100 °F
The old plumbing and electrical was out of date and patched together after several remodels on the old house. Brice installs all new Pex pipe and relocates the lines where they will be needed in theもっと詳しく
Subflooring and Spray on Insulation
2024年8月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
The spray foam will add sound buffering and insulation at the same time. Once the spray is sprayed in it grows and expands into all the crevices making it very air tight to the outside.
Exterior Siding
2024年8月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
The siding is board and baton style. It will require a vertical installation. Brice started taking off boards to get ready for new surface. The new siding comes pre- painted in a dark grey. So excitedもっと詳しく
Flooring the house
2024年12月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 45 °F
The vinyl tile plank flooring. This is the type that is rubbery and comes in tiles that are 4” x 3ft. It was are installed throughout the whole house. It has a wood look and has grays and browns.もっと詳しく
Kitchen Cabinet Installation
2025年1月12日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 34 °F
The Little House gets its cabinets today. The kitchen is coming together.
Taping the Drywall, installing bathtub
2025年1月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 36 °F
The long and tedious process of taping the drywall seams and preparing for floating the mud surface and texture onto the drywall.
旅行者
The picture makes the tub look like it takes the entire bathroom, but really it is only slightly larger than standard tubs. I love a soaking tub, it is one of my few "must haves". I've ordered a bathroom vanity and sink, found a faucet set at an Amazon bin store. Getting so excited now that we're down to the nitty gritty of making this a home.
Wood Ceiling Accents
2025年1月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 37 °F
The fir wood treatment doesn't cover 100% of the ceiling and serves as an accent to the drywall..
I'll say it again - I love the vaulted ceilings. It was such a big IF to do them, but the riskもっと詳しく
Appliances and fixtures
2025年1月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 50 °F
Drywall Taping and Mudding
2025年2月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 39 °F
These progress photos don't really show how much work went into putting drywall, tape and mud in all the tight spaces and all the unusual angles. Brice had to have cussed this ceiling often when heもっと詳しく
Painting
2025年3月13日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F
We picked grey trim, off white walls, dark beams (the same color as exterior siding) and doors of the same. Many days and many coats later, we are ready to move on to installing electrical outlets andもっと詳しく
Some Assembly Required
2025年3月20日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 50 °F
Today we put together the bathroom vanity, got some fittings for the fireplace to make room for the mantle, got the on demand hot water heater attached to the wall. The dark colored interior doorsもっと詳しく
旅行者
This backdoor went directly into the only bedroom. Since this door is closes to the garage and driveway Roxanne wanted to change this to enter the kitchen. Much more convenient for unloading groceries from the car. The bedroom was placed on the opposite side of the house.