home renovation: a sunny room

Well, it has been a very exciting two weeks here at the grovestead. We are basically living in an HGTV episode, though the only cameras are my own. We are putting in a front door on our house, and a big window to overlook our yard. If this were an actual HG episode it would be called: Let there be Light.

And oh, it is so good.

Our front room at one time was the kitchen in this 1890's farm house. It also used to be in the back of the house. It's a bit confusing, and I've mentioned it before, but the front door to our farm house is on the back side of our house. What was once the front yard is now the back yard after the land around us was developed and two new lots popped up on the land that used to have the lane that drove to our front door. (This was years ago...either the 70's or the 90's...can't remember at the moment).

Anyway, we needed a front door that didn't lead guests through our garage and we needed more natural light in this house. We toyed with adding a sun room onto our house, and then decided this room that we didn't know what to do with could become the sun room if given a big enough window. 

So here are a whole lot of pictures of the progress for anyone who cares. I LOVE a good home renovation (and have spent much of my life watching Sarah Richardson, Candice Olson and that Scott guy on Property Ladder) so to be living out a home renovation is really exciting to me. Which is good, because we have spent much of the last two weeks (and will this next week too) walking outside and around our house anytime we want to get from the kitchen to the bedrooms. So far it feels like an adventure, although today is the first day we've had rain...which tends to make the run with children around the house a bit more adventurous. 

Alright! Here are the pics! This will be overkill if you don't care. Just fair warning...