Are you going to sand that next?
Already did, these are before pics of my New Orleans house, taken 5 or 6 years ago
And this is it a couple months after the flood, with a still visible 4' flood line.
Holy shit! I didn't recognise it from the 'after' pictures in your archives. That's absolutely amazing. Wow!
(freak)
yeah nice work!
The "before" interior shots are extra scary. And there was some outdoor cleaup as well. JimL says he didn't know he had a driveway until he removed a large pile of stuff.
Are the interior shots those ones with the bullet holes, posted not too long ago?
I don't recall. The main feature I remember was fire damage. There was also a bathtub situation, but I don't remember if there were any photos or if the description was sufficient to plant the image..
Yeah, these are interior shots of the same place.
That's an awesome transformation.
And don't be so modest Mark, the planter boxes on either side of the driveway and one on the side, which you can't see, and the patented oyster shell/ broken brick grabble (tm) apron to my driveway, which at the time kept my little low riding Toyota from bottoming out, and the oyster shell french drain system under the water spigot, and the soffit vents, and the little section of brick paving in the back (which got dug up by a brick thief, for the 3 cents per brick, bricks) and the photonias in the front planter boxes, which were six feet tall before Katrina killed them, and in this picture have just been recently chainsawed down by me, and the drip irrigation system, which you left me but I didn't use until ambitous post-K landscaping of the back yard---are all your contributions to the project. It was a lot of work though, brought in on a pretty tight budget, over six years, which is four years longer than it should have taken me, and arguably is still not really finished. But I'm happy with it. It is a pretty peaceful to live in ghetto property.
also folks, dont forget jiml started living there long before he got his c of o. and as he has mentioned, lived there without hot water for a long (pre-katrina) time. electricity too? that off grid discipline was some sort of preparation for post-katrina return-to-off-grid.
Without hot water, cold water, toilet, electricity (although got on a temporary pole to run power tools and light after first year, and think I had cold water and toilet in the house by the 4th year), gas, and natural sunlight (because after numerous break-ins I had to board up all the broken windows). Seems kind of wacky from my current perspective, but it was okeydokey, if a little stressful, at the time.
not just break-ins, but crackhead break-ins ... i.e., willing to create a huge amount of damage to for a low value theft
Makes me feel like I live in Switzerland. (even Swiss drug addicts look fresh & organized)
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- jimlouis 7-25-2006 3:14 am
Are you going to sand that next?
- L.M. 7-25-2006 3:49 am [add a comment]
Already did, these are before pics of my New Orleans house, taken 5 or 6 years ago
- jimlouis 7-25-2006 3:58 am [add a comment]
And this is it a couple months after the flood, with a still visible 4' flood line.
- jimlouis 7-25-2006 4:11 am [add a comment]
Holy shit! I didn't recognise it from the 'after' pictures in your archives. That's absolutely amazing. Wow!
(freak)
- L.M. 7-25-2006 4:14 am [add a comment]
yeah nice work!
- bill 7-25-2006 4:20 am [add a comment]
The "before" interior shots are extra scary. And there was some outdoor cleaup as well. JimL says he didn't know he had a driveway until he removed a large pile of stuff.
- mark 7-25-2006 4:48 am [add a comment]
Are the interior shots those ones with the bullet holes, posted not too long ago?
- L.M. 7-25-2006 5:06 am [add a comment]
I don't recall. The main feature I remember was fire damage. There was also a bathtub situation, but I don't remember if there were any photos or if the description was sufficient to plant the image..
- mark 7-25-2006 5:34 am [add a comment]
Yeah, these are interior shots of the same place.
- mark 7-25-2006 5:37 am [add a comment]
That's an awesome transformation.
- L.M. 7-25-2006 9:11 am [add a comment]
And don't be so modest Mark, the planter boxes on either side of the driveway and one on the side, which you can't see, and the patented oyster shell/ broken brick grabble (tm) apron to my driveway, which at the time kept my little low riding Toyota from bottoming out, and the oyster shell french drain system under the water spigot, and the soffit vents, and the little section of brick paving in the back (which got dug up by a brick thief, for the 3 cents per brick, bricks) and the photonias in the front planter boxes, which were six feet tall before Katrina killed them, and in this picture have just been recently chainsawed down by me, and the drip irrigation system, which you left me but I didn't use until ambitous post-K landscaping of the back yard---are all your contributions to the project. It was a lot of work though, brought in on a pretty tight budget, over six years, which is four years longer than it should have taken me, and arguably is still not really finished. But I'm happy with it. It is a pretty peaceful to live in ghetto property.
- jimlouis 7-25-2006 4:04 pm [add a comment]
also folks, dont forget jiml started living there long before he got his c of o. and as he has mentioned, lived there without hot water for a long (pre-katrina) time. electricity too? that off grid discipline was some sort of preparation for post-katrina return-to-off-grid.
- bill 7-25-2006 5:23 pm [add a comment]
Without hot water, cold water, toilet, electricity (although got on a temporary pole to run power tools and light after first year, and think I had cold water and toilet in the house by the 4th year), gas, and natural sunlight (because after numerous break-ins I had to board up all the broken windows). Seems kind of wacky from my current perspective, but it was okeydokey, if a little stressful, at the time.
- jimlouis 7-25-2006 5:48 pm [add a comment]
not just break-ins, but crackhead break-ins ... i.e., willing to create a huge amount of damage to for a low value theft
- mark 7-26-2006 1:03 am [add a comment]
Makes me feel like I live in Switzerland. (even Swiss drug addicts look fresh & organized)
- L.M. 7-26-2006 1:33 am [add a comment]