Step 8: Windows and Doors

August 2018

First, I'll give y'all the real before before, to refresh your memory. Even before the purge:

Living Room Before

Kitchen/Dining Before: 

Now, let's just focus each side individually to see the progression better, sorry I didn't do a perfect job of getting the exact same angles, but I think you get the idea.

LIVING ROOM:

after purging:

after demo:

wider shot of the after demo:

Note the plywood on the right, blocking about 1/4 of that double window, where the heater was venting out. It will make a huge difference in the after when we take it out and replace the window.

more demo, all the old window frames out:

WITH WINDOWS AND DOORS!!

even a little bit artsy shot with the sun coming through the window just so....

closer on the windows/door at the end of the living room, where there used to be a heater, the venting of which took up 1/4 of that window. Amazing difference just in taking that out!:

Now on to the other side, where I think you can see more of a difference, since we widened the windows in that area so much more.

KITCHEN/DINING AREA

(which will become just the dining area)

after purge: 

after demo:

with the left window cut out bigger, but the right still the same: 

with new holes for bigger windows:

the other side of this same wall, looking in the windows from the porch, you can see the old red siding underneath the vinyl siding they had to take off to expand the windows:

WITH WINDOWS AND DOORS

Now for some wider angle pictures...

foreground: living
background: kitchen/dining

before the window expansion:

with the bigger cut outs for the windows:

WITH WINDOWS AND DOORS:
(the background of this is the new addition - the kitchen)

angle from the kitchen looking straight into the great room, the wall of windows looking over the lake to your left and the "front door" (which is really on the side) directly in front of you to the right of the window which used to have the heater venting out of it:

DOWNSTAIRS MASTER

These were downstairs bedrooms #1 and #2, which have been combined to make a master suite. In bedroom #1, we actually took out the windows to make the master closet and bathroom, which are now interior walls due to the addition, and in bedroom #1 (below), the door you see became a double window.

Before:

after purge:

after window cut out:

with WINDOW:

DOWNSTAIRS MASTER CLOSET/BATH

this is the bedroom #2 that became the master closet and bathroom:

We actually took out some windows to make the master closet and bathroom. It might be kind of hard to see, but the boarded up on window in the picture above is on the far left of the picture below. The window on the right of the picture above is now the plywood wall in the center of the picture below. The metal box on the right in the picture below (the breaker box) is about where the far right of the above picture is.

foreground of the picture below: master bath

background of picture below: master closet

DOWNSTAIRS OFFICE/DEN

This was bedroom #3 that is becoming an office/den. Window will stay the same in here (you can't see it in the picture, it's on the left). The walled in window in the back was walled in back in the '80s when they put the second story on, but a wall was never put over it

before:

after purge:

I changed angles on the picture now so you can see the window. This is looking from the downstairs master through the wall into the office.

WITH THE NEW WINDOW!

Hard to tell any difference, I know, but I promise the window below is nice and new and opens and shuts properly and even locks and has a screen in it and is sealed properly! woo-hoo!!!

UPSTAIRS

The kids' bedrooms aren't that different, just new windows in the same spots.

Boys' Bedroom before:

Boys' Bedroom after:

Girl's Bedroom before:

Girl's Bedroom after:

UPSTAIRS MASTER

This room is the only major change to the windows upstairs. And it is GLORIOUS.

Before:

After purge:

the angle from the other side of the room, so you can see the windows better. Note how they are kind of lopsided... a double window on the right and single on the left?:

after they cut out the wider window on the left

Oh my stars, amazing! I cannot even tell you how excited I am about this!

WITH NEW WINDOWS!!

In every room, even just taking out the window air units and in the living room taking out the heater that vented out through the window made a HUGE difference in the amount of light coming in! Much less making windows bigger and putting in doors with windows!

Also, a few pics of the doors...

"FRONT DOOR"

Which is really on the side, a new addition, mostly for fire code. There used to only be a wall here. This is now where you would enter the house right in front of the stairs.

BACK DOOR

This is the entrance to the mudroom, which I'm pretty sure everyone is going to use as the front door because the "front door" is on the side and no one will even know it is there. An unfortunate reality of remodeling, sometimes things just have to be and they don't make sense...

ENTRANCE FROM THE SCREENED IN PORCH

I don't know if you call this the front door or the back door or whatever, but it doesn't even matter because it's amazing because it is ALL GLASS!! So we can look out over the water!!

NEXT: Step 9: Rough In