Movin' On Up...

Well the 2nd floor was completed last Friday (it was started about 2 weeks ago) and work just got underway today on the roof! Yippee!! We will take pics tomorrow of the roof framing.

With the blessing of mother nature, it won't rain till end of week and we can have a completed roof!! That would be the most awesome thing ever!


It has been amazing to watch the house change in proportion with every wall and floor put in place! There were days that I thought 'wow this doesn't look all that big,' and then there were others I'd look at John and say 'what did we do?' For some reason no mater how much you think you know spacially what it will look like, it always looks just fine on paper.
I'm still hoping to be in late fall. Thanksgiving would be great!

The windows, doors and siding will be next after the roof. Then the interior work begins.


This has been a learning process. If we were to do this again I know there are some things that we could/would do differently...maybe we'll turn that into a book. The experience thus far though has not been as bad a a lot of people made it out to be, but I won't discount their advice since we are still in process and anything , can happen.

ON AND ON

Well July has come and gone and the framing is still underway. Despite that they say the watertable is still 2" low, we had a lot of rain for July. John and I both said last year that this will be the wetest, ickiest year just because we're building. So far we haven't been proven wrong.

The first floor is now almost complete. The last of the floor joists were attached today, now starts the second floor subfloor. If Mother Nature will cooperate, it may get done in a couple weeks so that all is under roof.

We do have the window's, 21 in all and doors, 5 in all. With the size of the windows, we should be able to save on the electric bill for lack of use on lights! A fireman fully suited with oxygen tanks could get thru the things!

All in all it's coming along. I'm not a very patient person so this is a challenge for me not to be fussing! MUCH!!! If we could get a streak of weather that did not contain moisture, it would help greatly! Things can get built much easier when it's dry.

We changed the siding color again, but I think this time it will stay. Both of us like it and we were able to take a full piece so we could really take a look at it. The stuff is from a buyout so we're saving a little cash - Thanks to Cherie at Homewarehouse! It's sage but the color is more like a gray green so we think it will look very nice once it's all done with white trim.