Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
The last of the lake house roof repairs are done. The restoration company did a fantastic job matching the trim color and the 1970’s style soffits! All that’s left now is to stain the new deck in the spring, and then we’ll be all set. We’re getting into late fall in Wisconsin, but the views … Continue reading Final Fall Lake House Repairs
As is tradition in Wisconsin every fall, the time eventually comes to put the boat into winter storage and shut down the pool. This years was no different, although we had an abnormally warm late September and early October to make up for some cold weather and storms in late August / early September, so … Continue reading End of Summer 2025
In early August, Lake Wisconsin got hit multiple weekends in a row by very severe thunderstorms with extremely high winds. Unfortunately, the second one was bad enough that it decided to send a massive pine tree straight through the new deck and part of the lake house roof! Thankfully, Acuity Insurance sprung into action. Between … Continue reading Storm Damage
After two years of dealing with the beach restoration and stair reconstruction, the beach and the new concrete steps at the bottom of the stairwell have held up well enough that I had Deano Dock & Lift reinstall the floating dock. Now we have the best of both worlds: a clear beach for swimming and … Continue reading The Dock is Back!
Since buying it in 2017, I’ve remodeled almost every aspect of the lake house. The last major piece that needed to be done was the deck, which was clearly past the end of its life and was getting close to becoming a safety issue. This spring, I worked with the same construction company that rebuilt … Continue reading Lake House Deck
While I wait for the next big lake house project (replacing the deck next spring), I’ve knocked out some smaller tasks that have been on my to-do list for awhile. First, I replaced the microwave in the upstairs kitchen, since the previous one had been destroyed by a power surge in one of the big … Continue reading Small Lake House Projects
Every year when summer ends and fall arrives, it means two things for me: football season, and a lot of maintenance tasks to make sure both houses are ready for winter. One of the first tasks is getting the boat out of the water for winter storage, along with taking the awning cover off of … Continue reading Fall and Winter Preparations
The last in a long line of projects to improve the waterfront at the lake house was to bring in a barge service to remove rocks, wood, and tree debris from both the beach and the water, to reshape the sand to be more usable, and to install more concrete steps to make it easier … Continue reading Beach Clean Up and Resurfacing
Over the past several years I’ve done numerous repair jobs on the last flight of stairs leading down towards the water, and I’ve also done a lot of work to keep the beach in good shape. It’s difficult work to do by myself though, especially without a barge to haul equipment and materials down to … Continue reading Stair Reconstruction
Along with my usual spring landscaping tasks, another thing I have to do every spring is open up the lake house, put the boat in the water, and set up the slip. This year was no different; I’d already done a lot of prep work at the lake house earlier in the year to remove … Continue reading Lake House Spring 2024
