For every project that I designed and finished from concept to completion I probably had five “filler jobs”… projects for people that did not want us to build their entire dream home (generally due to lean wallet syndrome), but these folks were in need of enough of our help to get them headed in the right direction.
I enjoyed most of these smaller projects a great deal and from a business perspective these projects were also ideal in filling in our schedule between the larger ones.
I have a few of these old project photos piled up here that I’d like to share with you, bare with me, there might be a nugget of wisdom or laughter in all this for you.
Let’s start with this cabin.
Clearly she is an antique structure and in pretty good shape. Her metal roof is worn out though… 75 years is the most you can expect out of a steel roof, especially one that has not been properly cared for.
The chinking also needed to be replaced as it was installed improperly by a previous contractor (our number one job request).
It appears that the previous owner’s of this cabin had contracted with a beach-cottage-renovator based upon the design of the front porch and the board-and-batten siding on the gable ends. The cabin’s current owner wanted to keep all of this work, ugly as it was, after all, it was “paid for”.
My client wanted a small kitchen added to his cabin, but did not want the addition to come out this end of the cabin… which is the side of the cabin best suited for such an addition. In my humble opinion, or course.
The only option we were left with for the future kitchen was to build something out of the back of the cabin… which, due to the site’s steep grade, would cause this addition to immediately plow into the hillside.
I visualized a “stone root cellar look” for that future kitchen, and then, went to work.
Originally posted 2015-06-23 13:41:10.