For my office, I sourced some beautiful reclaimed maple flooring that had once been used in a factory. After researching antique factory floors from several different suppliers, I went with Jewett Farms as my supplier. I’ve always loved the look of office and loft space in an old factory and I’ve recreated that feeling in […]

After seven months of work, the new addition is finally complete enough for us to move in. For the next 5 months or so while the team renovates the existing house, we’re “camping” in the addition. We’re making use of what will be our daughter’s room as our temporary bedroom, the guest bedroom will be

We’re lucky to have a bunch of original light fixtures from the 1950s still in our home. I’ve always loved these fixtures, so we will be reusing them in the renovated house. The fixtures are currently undergoing a complete restoration. I cleaned the glass, polished the wood, and painted the metal base of each light.

It was exciting to have the garage doors installed! We chose very simple, clean, and modern design with no windows.  

This week the team is installing energy-efficient windows and doors from Pella into the new addition. Considering the cold and snowy weather and how drafty the original 1950s windows are in our existing home, we’re thrilled to have these windows go in. In phase two of our project some time this summer, they will use

The team at Patriot Custom Homes has made excellent progress over the past three weeks. They worked really hard to get the addition ready for the inevitable Boston area snow. Just a day before 3 inches of snow fell, all new roof areas had Ice and Water shield applied and all exterior walls were covered

Our builder asked us what color we wanted for the exterior trim on the windows. It seemed like a simple request and he needed an answer within about a week. Just the window trim color, right? Wrong. That single decision effects everything on the exterior, so rather than just selecting the windows, we decided to

As we were watching the framing of the new part of the house, we were thrilled to discover that the enormous three-car garage was being built without the requirement to have support posts. We found this to be remarkable since there is an entire second story to be built above the garage. Our current garage,

When our renovation and addition plans were nearly completed by our architect Joe Welch, we started a series of meetings with our builder, Dylan James to discuss the construction budget. We had an overall number that we were willing to spend but the first rough-guess budget came in substantially higher. Ugh. So we had to

After more than a year of planning, we were certainly eager to get going with our renovation and addition project. But we weren’t quite prepared for the swift progress that the first few weeks of construction brought. With the unusually warm late autumn and early winter weather this year, once we gave the go ahead