This project involved completely redoing the outside of this house. The new owners had bought a "fixer-upper" and boy did it need fixing.  We certainly had our work cut out for us. The pictures below show what the house and yard looked like before and after we were finished with this major outside overhaul.

The picture on the left shows that the cedar siding need refinishing. The owner had already hired a tree service to remove 20 trees from the one third acre corner lot.

As shown in the picture on the right, the tree company came and removed the trees from the front and side yard as well as several trees from the back yard. We refinished the cedar siding as planned. We also installed new vinyl siding on the rest of the house.

Obviously the wood front door on the left needs refinishing. Apparently the former owner didn't know how to build steps. The steps on the left were made of plain cinder blocks and were vertically uneven and 14 inches in height. This porch had to be replaced. The owner also asked that we replace the columns

We built the new front porch on the right, refinished the wooden entry door and replaced the porch columns as requested. Hard to believe this is the same entrance way.

As you can see in the picture on the right, the asbestos shingles are in bad shape and need replacing and there are no gutters, soffits or down spouts.

The former owner added this storage area downstairs at the back of the house. Since his wife was a seamstress, he only added a normal 36 inch door to the back yard.

Since this is a bi-level, the back yard is higher than the downstairs family room floor and there were only a set of steep, narrow cinder block steps between the family room and the storage area.

The new owner is a mechanic and wanted to use the storage area as a garage. We needed to cut through the outer wall to add the garage entrance at the side of the house as shown in the picture on the left . It's a little hard to see through the tree in the upper left picture, but the master bedroom had only a single window. The back window was removed when the addition was added. The owner wanted us to replace the single window with a double window.

As shown in the picture on the left, we removed the single window in the master bedroom and replaced it with a double window with thermal glass. Next we cut through the exterior side wall to add the garage door. We also added soffits, gutters and downspouts to the roof.

  

The fence shown in the picture on the left above was rotting like all of the other outside wood. Since this is a corner lot, the new owner wanted a 6 foot stockade fence installed around the back yard so his family would have privacy when they were in the pool. If you look at the picture on the right above, you will see that there are no steps going from the balcony to the back yard. The former owner added the second floor porch but for some reason didn't include any steps to the back yard.

As you can see in the middle picture above, if you were in the pool, you had to go around to the front door or through a storage area with dangerous, uneven steps to the carpeted family room downstairs to get to a bathroom. The owner wanted to add outside steps to the upstairs kitchen so you could get to a bathroom from the pool without having to cross a carpeted room.

The wood on this gazebo shown on the right above was rotted and the whole thing needed to be either removed or replaced.

The picture on the left shows the back yard after we were finished. First we tore down the rotting gazebo. After we started working on the porch we discovered that it had not been properly cantilevered. We corrected the problem before we added the stairway. We put lattice around the outside and left an entry way so lawn and garden items can be stored under the porch during winter.

We replaced the rotting fence with a six foot stockade fence and moved it 12 feet into the back yard on the front side so the ground-level back door would be outside the fenced in yard and the owner could park his camper next to the driveway.

The wood planking in the picture on the left had been put directly on the ground and although it was pressure treated wood, it was also beginning to rot. The new owner decided he wanted to remove this wood planking. He wanted us to put a concrete apron around the pool.

We removed the wooden planking and replaced it with a concrete apron around the pool as requested.