{"id":78231,"date":"2019-05-14T01:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T01:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/?p=78231"},"modified":"2019-05-14T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T10:44:12","slug":"making-this-house-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/making-this-house-a-home\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKING THIS HOUSE A HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You may have seen these photos already – from TWO years ago when Matt Neal Contracting, Inc. gave our house an amazing facelift!<\/p>\n

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We were going to tackle the back last year but then life happened. So – we did it this spring!<\/p>\n

BUT – siding the back meant making the windows and doors what we wanted them to be long-term.<\/p>\n

Which meant tackling the kitchen and the storage room that stood on the back of the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Which meant combining those rooms together. Which meant a new foundation underneath the kitchen – because one didn’t exist.<\/p>\n

Which meant looking at the roof – which needed to be redone.<\/p>\n

Which meant new walls and flooring in the kitchen & new dining room.<\/p>\n

Which meant a new stove since the existing one was hard wired into the floor. You get the idea.<\/p>\n

Improve one thing and discover all the things that need to go along with that ONE new thing!<\/p>\n

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That has been our kitchen for the last 14 years – a kitchen that was claustrophobic. Dark. Depressing. Covered in carpet remnants.<\/p>\n

AND NOW LOOK AT THIS PLACE!!<\/p>\n

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That’s the view from the corner of the storage room – now our dining room!!<\/p>\n

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And from the back of the house – a packed full storage closet. Cold and serving no purpose but to house stuff we didn’t need.<\/p>\n

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And the back corner – looking out into the door that led to the porch that we never used.<\/p>\n

AND NOW – beautiful windows opening up to our BEAUTIFUL deck!!<\/p>\n

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We found LOTS of interesting things ripping apart this old house!<\/p>\n

And the beauty from ashes – INCREDIBLE!!!<\/p>\n

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Our vaulted ceiling! ABSOLUTELY DIVINE!!<\/p>\n

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Matt had the idea of the exposed wood. The floating beam and the one over the door were from the old storage room!<\/p>\n

The boards framing the door and the corners were something Matt had in his shop and fit PERFECTLY in this new space!!<\/p>\n

And the wood at the peak – the barn boards that were holding up the west end of the house!<\/p>\n

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Matt made a counter\/table from an old door in his workshop – turning my vision into reality!!<\/p>\n

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Do you see that light above the sink?! I’ve never had one!! It’s miraculous!!<\/p>\n

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Isn’t it ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! I still can’t believe that it’s really real and really DONE!!!<\/p>\n

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AN AMAZING BEFORE & AFTER!!!<\/p>\n

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We are SO INCREDIBLY HAPPY with the finished product!!<\/p>\n

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Matt happens to be a friend of ours – and he’s done all the work on our house.<\/p>\n

I can’t tell you how happy we are with his crew. Matt knew what I was looking for and several times made decisions that went above & beyond!!<\/p>\n

I cannot believe that all the tools are gone. All the equipment off the deck. DONE.<\/p>\n

In the span of a month (and a few days) (not including weekends and not EVERY day) Matt and his guys transformed our home into a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n

THANK YOU!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have seen these photos already – from TWO years ago when Matt Neal Contracting, Inc. gave our house an amazing facelift! We were going to tackle the back last year but then life happened. So – we did it this spring! BUT – siding the back meant making the windows and doors what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,19,24,30,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78231\/revisions\/78267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}