We finished up our kitchen remoding project. It looks great and should serve the owners well over the next decades. The cabinets for this job are custom made cherry cabinets finished with a very light stain. The home is in a wooded rural setting and the cherry gives a very organic feel to the cabinets. [...]
Two weeks ago we started finishing work on one of the concominiums at The Crossings in Northfield. The Crossings are located just north of the Second Street bridge along the Cannon River. The unit we are finishing for a client is a two bedroom, two bathroom model. As with all the living units on the [...]
We are in the final phase of the work on our kitchen remodel project. The cabinets have been installed, the existing wood floor patched, new interior doors installed, and much of the painting has been completed. We are working at installing the new wood trims at the existing windows and new patio door. The exterior [...]
The base cabinets for our kitchen remodel were set in place last week. Yesterday the folks fabricating the countertops came to measure. They did it the old fashioned way by creating a template from hardboard. The countertops are a product we have not used before so I’m excited to see them in place. The ceilings [...]
We are just about finished with our basement water control project. The perimeter of the basement concrete floor was sawn and removed and we installed rigid plastic drainage pipes. With the pipe covered with rock things are draining very well. This particular house has a significant amount of flowing water under the floor. We are capturing [...]
January 10, 2012 – 11:03 am
Our structural work on an older home in N orthfield is wrapping up. Just before New Years we completed the installation of the beams, insulation and drywall on the ceiling. The drywall was finished an painted last week and we are now busy installing the milled wood trims on the beams. We made the trims [...]
December 22, 2011 – 3:39 pm
If you’ve been to lunch or dinner at the Ole Store you’ve probably seen our crew at work on our porch project across the street. We finished the foundation work and capped it with a concrete floor to create a water tight, solid floor structure. We are now working on framing the roof system. We [...]
December 20, 2011 – 2:31 pm
We slowly lifted the floor joists back into position on the older East side home that we are working on. The floor joists had cracked and sagged over the years which resulted in quite a slope to the upstairs room. We went slowly with the lift so that we didn’t damage the walls and floors. [...]
December 12, 2011 – 6:42 am
We are helping out a client with a structural ceiling problem. For many years the owners had dealt with a sagging floor upstairs. At one time they had drywall installed in the living room ceiling using furring strips to level the ceiling. The most recent problem started when a pipe in their living room ceiling [...]
December 1, 2011 – 11:35 am
The siding, windows and exterior work we are doing for a East side Northfield client has moved along nicely. The windows have all been installed. Much of the soffit and fascia work has been completed and the siding is being installed. We installed new house wrap under all the siding which will help protect the [...]
