Normandy Park Restoration

Decided to go ahead and take care of raising the wall separations on the back wall in the kitchen.  Here is the start, at this point all I've done is remove the glass. One center section cut out. Here I've installed the new cross beams  And here I've put some temporary drywall in the lower sections to keep the elements out I also put some drywall in the upper sections, to use as templates when ordering the replacement glass, which I'll do this week.

Talked to the permitting office and they want all kinds of permits and evaluations in order to do the parking pad and retaining walls in front of the house.  So, as the first part I did a very sloppy mockup of the plan. Crushed rock parking pad with 4 tiered walls made out of grey basalt boulders in 1/2 man to 1 man size.  Based on my initial measurements I actually managed an even 6' of flat earth between the walls, with 10' of parking pad.  The ground between the walls will be level, the mockup shows some green between them just to show where the flat setback is.

Also got the workshop cleaned up, removed lots of trash, and installed some pegboard on the walls. Still more organization work to do, but I've been wanting to make that old workbench more usable to a while.

Got the window trim installed on the new windows. Not painted yet, but fully sealed and installed.  Both this side and 2 windows on the back of the house.