The renovation is really starting to come along! The interior walls are almost all framed and we are hoping to have the new windows installed before the end of the week.

The most amazing transformation so far has been the back of the house. The brick was a mess where the addition had been and our mason tried his best to fix the brick between the two windows upstairs, but the brick was so brittle this was about as good as it was going to get:

Our mason suggested that we use a thin brick material and reface the entire back of the house given the poor state of the existing brick. Here is the back of the house today:

It is still a work in progress, but what a difference!