The extent of remodeling on this project was to reorient the kitchen to the dining room and open up the first floor. This required some structural reconfiguration, but it really had an impact on the light in the first floor. 

The kitchen was remodeled with a deck on the first floor added off the dining room. 

The second floor was vibrant with I would consider questionable colors and redone to lighten the interior spaces. 

I should also note by the third home that we’d field measured – I developed a system for not taking all day to sketch out a room. In the times before cloud scanning and laser tapes that cost a week’s pay – we had to measure every single jog and trim piece in a room, sketch it out., write it down and then move onto the next. 

You’ll notice in some of the existing photos – there are bright colored squares on the walls. Those are sticky notes. 

We would measure a wall to a jog, write the dimension in heavy sharpie on a sticky note and tag the wall. No sketching each room, no painstaking 2-man measuring tape team – just going around the room and tagging spatial dimensions. Windows were done with Width x Height x Sill to the inside of the trim. This cut down on the time that it took to document a house in half. 

When it was all tagged – we’d photograph the room. Overalls, then by wall, and then by tag if they were obscured in any way by lighting. Later, when all photos were offloaded onto a laptop and shared – there were field notes, sketches from the site – but the photos contained all the measurements. 

We’d developed a solution, without $20,000 worth of equipment. I use something similar when punching out projects. Painter’s tape and notes written with Sharpie.