The Mini Big Dig

Boston had the real "Big Dig". 42 East is having the mini big dig.

When we moved here 23 years ago the barn had the original carriage house. And in that part of the barn the back wall was totally comprised of large mullioned windows. Baseball, hockey, soccer put those windows in jeopardy and eventually they were removed and a solid wall was installed. However, we kept the windows and as the years passed by I gradually got this notion that I could build a greenhouse/potting shed with those windows and various other windows that we had collected over the years.

Last year we actually started to plan the building out and we realized that with the brick (that had been given to us) and the windows (that we had collected) we would need a foundation so the frost would not heave the building and destoy the structure in the spring. Hence, the backhoe and the big dig. The framing goes up tomorrow and the brick work starts next week. What started out as a little building that we were going to build ourselves has turned into a bigger project than we first conceived. But I think the the end result is going to be really cute!