There are a lot of last minute things going on at the FF, getting ready for the inspection to get the Certificate of Occupancy. Nothing too exciting, but lots of stuff.
We spent the weekend painting primer on the entire inside of the house. We wanted to go ahead and paint, even though it isn’t required [...]
Posts Tagged ‘housebuilding’
This and That
Posted in House Building, Stone Work, farmhouse, stone, tagged farmhouse, housebuilding on January 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We’ll Live and Die in the Giant Wooden House
Posted in House Building, farmhouse, tagged cabinets, farmhouse, housebuilding, tile on December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After all the stress of this experience, there’s no way anyone will budge me from the giant wooden house as long as I’m still breathing.
People ask us every day – “How’s the house going?”. Until this week, the answer has been “Great!” Not so much now. I think I see now why so many people [...]
Pass the Salad Please
Posted in House Building, family, farmhouse, tagged farmhouse, farmhouse porch, housebuilding on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think we’re still in turkey stupor here. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with family and friends, and I think we were all more stuffed than the turkey was.
We had food everywhere, all vacant spaces in addition to the kitchen table. It was pretty much the same with people, they were tucked in all [...]
Porch Ceiling and Walls
Posted in Critters, House Building, farmhouse, tagged Critters, farmhouse porch, housebuilding on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We had another busy weekend at the new house. The sheetrock is up, and needs only about one more round on mudding and sanding.
It’s pretty crazy to see walls after all this time. It’s a little easier to start seeing rooms now, what they’ll maybe look like when we’re finished.
We worked on the back porch [...]
SLOW
Posted in House Building, farmhouse, tagged farmhouse, housebuilding on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Things on the house-building front have slowed down the past few weeks. Our builder had to finally fire the framing crew because they only came about 2 days in the last 2 weeks to work. We have unfinished front and back steps. But when they are finished by the next crew, they’ll be very nice.
The [...]
Our Big Giant Paper House
Posted in House Building, farmhouse, tagged housebuilding on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Look at our big giant house! It’s incredible to me that it went from a basement on Sunday to this today.
It really isn’t a giant house. It’s actually a fairly small one story house, it just looks huge sitting on top of the basement out in the middle of 5.6 acres of nothing but trees and grass. We went [...]
Moving Right Along
Posted in House Building, farmhouse, tagged housebuilding on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The crews working on our house are amazing…they started excavating on July 19 and finished the basement yesterday, complete with built-in storm shelter. And we have a slab!
We’re a little crazy I guess, but we drove up tonight to see our lumber . Yes, it was practically dark, but we didn’t care, we needed [...]
