Posted in Announcements, General, Plumbing on Jul 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
I installed the last toilet last night (in the master bath) so our plumbing is now officially done.
I’ve also planned our deck and done a material take-off for it. Amber’s working on planning the shelves for the pantry so we’ll order all that material tomorrow and have it delivered on Friday. I expect to get […]
Posted in General on Mar 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
We have cabinets! Well, they are currently sitting in cardboard boxes in our dining area, but they are set to be installed on Monday. By Wednesday evening, we should have cabinets in the kitchen and the two upstairs bathrooms.
We’ve also received almost all of our light fixtures and all of our ceiling fans. So far […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Jan 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
The drywall, taping and mudding, and texturing are now complete! The house looks great - so much brighter and more like a home than a construction site.
We’ve started painting the ceilings and some of the rooms, and today Matt installed our first light fixture. It seems like such a little thing, but when I […]
Posted in Announcements, General on Nov 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Today was the day - rough electrical, rough plumbing and rough framing.
There’s a few minor things that we need to fix but we’re all signed off.
The inspector was very impressed by the electrical panel (thanks, Chris).
All-in-all it was much simpler than I expected it to be. Now we’re on to drywall, then the finish work.
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
We are still here. We are still working on the house. It’s just progressing slowly.
Between going out of town for a wedding, being sick, spending most of a weekend looking for a lost pair of glasses (found, by the way) and being very busy with work, we haven’t been able to get as much work […]
Posted in Construction, General on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I feel like the month of January was mostly a time for catching our breath and figuring out what’s next.
The structure is totally up (walls and roof). Most internal framing is done. The roof material is on and most of the siding, trim and fascia are done. External doors are hung, windows are in and […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Dec 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
The last few weeks have just been a flurry of activity on the house. All the walls are up, the roof panels are on, and the interior rough framing will be finished in the next couple days.
Once that’s all done (and inspected) we’re moving on to roofing and siding. We’ve got two different outfits lined […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Dec 19th, 2007 No Comments »
We had our first snowfall that we’ve seen on the property this week! It’s very exciting to be finally living in a place where it snows.
Driving up to the property on Monday morning, it really felt like winter was here as I saw small mounds of snow on the side of the road and the […]
Posted in General, Pictures on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Progress is being made, although we haven’t had much time in front of the computer in order share what’s happened. My mother-in-law was kind enough to send me a couple pictures she took yesterday and I thought they were good representations of what we’ve done.
First, here’s our start on the house. We got delivery on […]
Posted in Announcements, General on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
After a feverish rush of work done largely by Matt over the last week or so, we now have completed our concrete forms and we’ve passed our first inspection. Matt and a crew of guys are pouring concrete into our perimeter foundation this morning, and in a week we’ll be pouring concrete for our […]