Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire House is finally complete..... (pic heavy)

In the early fall of 2018, we started remodeling a house on our place for Wifey and I to live. Started out as a 900 sq. ft. house and I took in the carport to make it about 1200 sq. ft. Nothing fancy, but I did all the work I could, by myself. I did hire a carpenter friend to help build the porch and put on the metal roof. Also hired someone to tape, float, and texture the walls and ceiling; and cabinet maker. The rest I did myself. New roof, siding, porch, electrical, plumbing, floor joist, subfloor, flooring, walls, drywall, doors, windows, paint, cabinets, appliances, central ac/heat, trim, etc. The house is basically new.

Here is what we started with. (Some of the pics have been posted before)



Kitchen cabinets



Enough of the old house...... I gutted the house and just about started from scratch



Took in the carport... New metal roof, siding, porch



New floor joist and subfloor



Hung the sheetrock.... but hired it taped, floated, and textured



New flooring



Couple pics of some finished rooms





and, Wifey unloading, washing, and putting up things in her new kitchen.



Got family and friends gonna help move furniture this coming weekend and then it will take a few days to finish unloading boxes and getting things where they belong, but by the end of next week, at the latest, we should be in the house.

That looks super!! Tons of work!! "This is my father's hatchet, I've changed the handle twice, and the head once".

Real Nice Work

Very nice work. I'd have been tempted to flip it for a sizable profit and bought something newer, but you know best for your own needs. Great work, and at least you KNOW what's behind everything.

RR, this house sits on our place. I was raised here and own about 75 acres. No one can build close to us. No way I ever intend to sell.

If the KNOW is code for something...... It's gone.

That's the proper way to do it , bring all the walls down to studs. You notice none of the HGTV and DIY Flip shows do that with the exception of Mike Holmes.

Nice, and plenty of land for a garden out back.

Other than the outside walls of the old house and the 1 load bearing wall, the inside has been completely changed. Only 1 room is the same as before.

Whoa!

Thats way nicer than I was expecting for Louisiana!

wow.....congrats......I'm sure it was a lot of work......looks great

Nice work, Randy!

Hope to see you back at the summer "camp and shoot" this year.

Amazing transformation, nice work!

What I meant by KNOW is not hidden treasure, but rather you don't have to guess how things were constructed, what grade of materials were used, how carefully things were fitted, and on and on. As opposed to buying a finished house where all that is hidden and unknowable.

In my house, for example, we started seeing small cracks in the drywall in one area. Assumed it was due to minor settling after 30+ years. But during our remodel, the contractor discovered that the original HVAC guys had cut a box THROUGH the major load-carrying beam to run a duct! The entire load across the center of the house was being held by about a 2x2"!

Great job!!

That's awesome! Thanks for Sharing

Heck of a project, Randy!

You done good!

I bet you are proud of that, as you should be!

A lot of work but a nice home. Hope you and your wife are very comfortable and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Well done! Now sit back, relax and enjoy it!

Damn fine job Randy! You have much to be proud of.

More pictures!
Bob