Falling Alder

A structural engineer, a teacher, and a toddler walk into a house... Documenting the rehabilitation

04/23/2023

While at some point we will fully gut the kitchen, we decided to do a surface level remodel this spring! New paint throughout and flooring. It has been a busy past few weeks at Falling Alder! How are your spring projects coming along?

08/16/2022

Wow - W has been not so great at updating this so apologies old and new friends! J here and thought I’d share this removable screen Walter made over a weekend for the carport out of wood from demoing our deck! Walter has been busy finishing a ramp and the front deck - he picked up some Ipe last week and I’m super excited for it! Hopefully we will have many a sunny Seattle evening left still by the time he finishes it! W should be back and will give you all the engineering details behind what we’ve got going on, but for now pretty picture from J! As always, love seeing everyone’s finished spaces on here and living vicariously through you all 💕

03/27/2022

Feels like spring with the sun hitting the trees!!! ☀️ lots of gardening these past few weekends. What projects do you got going on this spring?

03/19/2022

In house DJ this morning, featuring one of our favorite purchases. A couple years ago we picked up this shelf at - such a cool store in an old house with really great high quality MCM.

01/20/2022

Who knew living in a mid century house meant no exterior power? Walter installed this exterior outlet over the weekend and we already wish we’d done it years ago. No more extension cords through open windows! What simple projects have you put off?

01/13/2022

Views from the living room 😍 loving these big windows year round, but especially on snow days!! We don’t get a lot of snow is our area, now that it is gone, I miss it! Anyone else in the region who can relate? 🤣

01/12/2022

WOW! Hi friends old and new 👋 with this influx of new followers - let me re-introduce ourselves: Walter, Jocelyn, and Hadley, the faces behind Falling Alder. Thank you for joining us on our journey! The winter months are quiet in terms of remodeling here, but we will continue to get better at more regular updates. We are looking ahead to the summer with finishing foundation work (at last!) so we can move on to making some (more) noticeable and aesthetically pleasing changes inside. I’m most looking forward to putting our fire place back in and the kitchen and the bathrooms… okay ya got me, I’m just excited. How is winter for you?! Inside projects got you busy? Or are you like us… just waiting for the weather to get nice? 🤣

12/27/2021

Not quite a white Christmas, but we will take a nice snowy Boxing Day!

12/26/2021

Hope everyone has been having a wonderful holiday! ❤️ while it wasn’t a white Christmas, we got snow this morning! Stay tuned for photos of house covered in snow!

11/27/2021

I guess per social media standards we are about a month late when it comes to decorating for Christmas 🤣 we are a strict not until after Thanksgiving family! How about you? 🎅 🎄

11/25/2021

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are thankful for our family, friends, and being able to share this journey with you all! Here, Hadley is thankful she can finally run and bicycle at home —darn hills!

11/24/2021

We found one more use for our massive tarp —driveway reveal! Seriously though, it’s being used to keep everything dry. The polymeric sand that is used to joint the pavers is moisture activated so the pavers need to be bone dry or it will harden before filling the joints. As luck would have it, we were threatened with rain storms the same weekend we were trying to wrap this up, so out came the tarp.

We’ll share the finished photos tomorrow, but here is a 95% done shot (second photo).

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Lake Forest Park, WA
98155

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http://fallingalder.com/

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