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Shingles, Windows & Doors: OMG, It Looks Like a House!

Maxwell Ryan
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Maxwell left teaching in 2001 to start Apartment Therapy as a design business helping people to make their homes more beautiful, organized AND healthy. The website started up in 2004 with the help of his brother, Oliver. Since then he has grown ApartmentTherapy.com, added TheKitchn.com, our home cooking site, and has authored four books on design. He now lives with his daughter in a lovely apartment in Brooklyn.
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Welcome to The Stacked Barn project where I lead you through a year-long odyssey that I’ve never been on before: the building of a new house. I’m going to show you how my new home gets built – step by step. This is Chapter Five.

August was another amazing month as the new house was officially “closed up” within the thirty-one days. From “sticks” in July to walls, full shingles, windows and doors, the house now became impervious to rain, allowing work inside to begin and my neighbors not to hate me so much. Below you’ll see the key things that happened to close it all up and allow for the next steps: electrical, plumbing and heating!

Walls up and shingling starts

August, 2016

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Windows & doors in, shingling complete and basement slab poured

August, 2016

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Next: The Guts Go In

September, 2016

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Architect: John Berg, Berg Design Architecture
Contractor: Peter Germano

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