Dining room remodel

  • Looking into the house from the old 4-seasons porch
  • The add-on four-seasons porch / office... which will become our new dining room.
  • The 4-seasons porch before we converted it into a dining room
  • Drywall down... Can't wait to kill those studs
  • This will be the new opening to the kitchen... We've got a lot of wires to move!
  • Floorin
  • Welp... that strapping certainly puts a bit of a damper on our latest kitchen design.
  • This will be fun to put back together later
  • Monday, the porch becomes part of the kitchen
  • Opening up that porch
  • This wall is about to go away
  • Temp wall
  • Temp wall
  • Wall's gone
  • An open room
  • Plannin a 4-way
  • Test case
  • Friday night party! Leveling our new dining room floor, which ranges from 1 5/8" - 2 1/8" lower t...
  • This has been my Friday night... almost got this damned floor transition figured out. 2 comments
  • Ripped a few boards today...
  • Sleepers ranging from 7/8" to 1.5" thick to raise the old porch floor up to the same height as th...
  • New dining room subfloor going down. Breaking for the night. Breaking for beer.
  • Got the new dining room floor raised n leveled.
  • Garth's new door
  • New deck entry
  • Old door patched
  • New dining room-deck doors
  • Dining room bein drywalled
  • Painted
  • Garth's gateway to the new back yard
  • So, Kari came home with some chairs today... 5 comments
  • Table's in
  • Dining room light mockup
  • New fixture + dimmable LED edison bulbs. We're getting to the fun stuff. 12 comments
  • Fourth (fifth? I've lost count) time on this sliding door's a charm? 1 comment
  • The dining room
  • Finally got the wood stove put back together. First fire in our new place.
Photos / Projects / Brooks' Dead End Ranch / Dining Room Remodel

Photos from converting the old four-seasons porch into a dining room.

Photos taken from October, 2015 to December, 2016 in Des Moines and Ankeny, Iowa

Album added 8 years ago (Dec 7, 2015).