Five years ago, I designed a whole new facade for our house as well as a new siding layout and roofline. I spent the last five years trying to find a contractor brave enough to take on the project. I finally found one! Shane Chunning, owner of SC Built in Cedar City, has been working on wrapping up all my unfinished projects that I haven't found the time to finish myself and has begun our Exterior Remodel that I designed all those years ago. He has been wonderful to work with, shares my attention to detail and works well with women (having all daughters himself), which is super helpful since, although I have 6 sons and only one daughter, I myself come from a family of 7 sisters.
The house originally was in very bad shape, figuratively and literally. The condition was bad, with the entire front porch rotting out, holes all over the cheap vinyl siding, and no house- or window-wrap anywhere to be found. But the "shape" of the house was also very poor: the scale was all off, with puny little dormer windows, too shallow roof pitches, no architectural interest or detail with casings or mouldings or eyelines, terrible attention to light and how to bring more into the house, and just a generally ugly aesthetic overall:
There were significant design challenges with this house: while it appears as if it is symmetrical, it isn't actually symmetrical and making it appear symmetrical and balanced took some very tricky fandagling with measurements and layout. But, I think I managed with my design while adding significant architectural interest to the design and giving the house a much more welcoming personality:
Progress is still incredibly slow. It has been over a year since we started the exterior remodel. We had a guy start forming some retaining walls for the front and side yards but he hasn't been back for weeks. 😞 We really haven't made any progress over the last several months but spring at least has things looking a bit more like home.
We still need to do all the brick work and wood work details and paint the bottom half of the house. The new front door should be done this week. 🤞🏻 The details still to be done are the shingled awnings over the windows and garage, the gable arches, the detail work on the porch gable front, the bracket details on the sides of the gables and posts, the brick bases for the posts, the window boxes, the garage door replacement, the front door replacement, and some detail touch ups on the siding.
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