Tearing down the doors...

Pete and his team showed up the morning and started construction on the garage. Right now it's a 2 car garage, with half of it being used for heating and storage (since there's no basement here on the lake). Once they are finished it will be a playroom/family room with a mudroom leading in from the new attached garage. The part that's storage will stay like that, but will be walled off.

The doors are off... You can see to the left is the other part of the garage with the furnace and storage. That part will stay but will be walled off.









And once they were done for the day. You can see they have the walls framed and it's starting to look like a real room!

The contruction begins...

We've finally decided to go ahead and start construction on the "Lakehouse". The Lakehouse is a full log home (built by Beaver Mountain Log & Cedar Homes almost 20 years ago!) Right now it's a 2 bedroom home with a 2 car garage downstairs. By the time we're finished it will be a 3 bedroom with an attached garage. The current garage will be transformed into a playroom/family room.


We have 3 little children and were quickly outgrowing the space. By the time this is finished we'll have much more space, the kids will have room to play (and we will get the toys out of the living room!) and we'll have an additional bedroom! We can't wait!

Pete Hathaway from Catskill Construction is doing the addition. We'll start with the playroom, then get the excavation and foundation done for the garage (before the snow comes hopefully) and then work on the dormers and bedrooms (which involves taking the roof off part of the house) and finish up the garage.