Thank you for your help during the creation of my addition. I’m sitting in it right now and the wind is blowing 30 plus miles per hour on Thanksgiving Day and I’m feeling grateful for the advice you offered along the way.
My builder did a great job and I’m still friends with him, which isn’t bad considering all we’ve been through together. His name is Dave Lawrence, he lives in Scituate, Mass.
I’ve attached some pictures. Someday we’ll fix up the house, but for now we need to take a break from construction to save up some money and plan for the next wave.
Hope you have a great Thanksgiving day.
credits:
architect: edgewater architects, Greenwich CT
structural engineer: Anderson structural engineers
builder: Dave Lawrence construction
painter: Will Craig
plumber: Tom Galligan
electric: Sprague Electric
materials: Hingham Lumber
driveway: Shoreline Studios
finance: citizens bank
stone: Jimmy Rosano
excavation: Pete from Scituate
Best,
Joe Berkeley
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Very nice looking Addition.
What about mentioning the Framer......;-)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Quite nice.
From the first pic I knew you were on the water. Then I saw the mermaid............how 'bout some view shots??
Nice cupola. Is that what that is called??
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Dave Lawrence was the GC, the builder, the custom cabinet man, the guy who built the cupola from scratch, the guy who wove the shingles up the corners, the guy who did the most beautiful work.My wife is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, a landscape architect, and is also the project manager on a high-rise building in NYC and her only regret about Dave is that there's only one of him.She'd love to kidnap him and take him off to NYC to work on her job but he wants none of that. Her building is called the Chelsea Arts tower, and there's a website http://www.chelseaartstower.com It's on 545 West 25th Street.The town we live in is called Hull. When we moved here in 1997, everyone thought we were crazy because the town has no status, no snob appeal, etc. Hull was the place to be in around 1890 then it went into a decline as Cape Cod became the new summer destination. I've always loved the town as it is eclectic and on the same street you can have a summer person, a commuter, a lobsterman, and a custom canvas man all living in relative harmony. Hull also has amazing views. As a peninsula, the town is only 3 square miles, but boasts 27 miles of shoreline. The views are amazing. Boston Light, the site of the first lighthouse in North America is in the backyard, as is Grave's Light.We moved from the NYC area, so when we came to Hull and found a house for $400k on the water we couldn't believe it. My wife bought it without me having seen the inside.Of course, you'll get nothing for nothing in this world. Since we bought the house, which was built in 1888, we have had to replace the roof, the kitchen, the bathrooms, the electric, the plumbing, the heating system, and the garage.When we first moved in, and I would touch something, and it would fall apart in my hands, or rusty water would fall upon my cranium, I would utter the words the realtor said when she showed us the house, "charming, isn't it."Charm is a fancy way of saying decrepit, and the place used to be. We're making progress and having a good time along the way.When Dave is working on the house in September, he brings his dog Velvet and his fishing pole with him, and if the blues or the stripers are running, he is known to drop his tools, grab his pole and sprint down to the shore for a spirited fishing session. He brought a few keepers home with him.Since 1997, the tiny town of Hull has been discovered, and lots of people who visited this summer community as children are returning with kids of their own. One of the great challenges of living and building here is the wind blows 90 plus miles per hour in the winter, and the wind-driven rain goes up, not down. Stopping the leaks in the old part of the house is difficult.Best to all,JWB
Nice story and best of luck during the remainder of the project.
There's a coupla island guys around here, Mike Smith is in Jamestown, and the infamous Piffin is on some remote island off the coast of Maine I believe.
Beautiful home!
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To me, hardened old house nutcase, you said the magic words when you said that, in spite of the struggle, you & your wife are having a good time along the way.
That's the spirit!
Thanks for posting this, & Happy Thanksgiving!
Very nice, love the house and LOVE the views.
Lovve that Cupola!
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