Author: chip

So we’re now in the electrician + low-voltage wiring phase and I dramatically underestimated how much wire was involved. First, a shot of the low voltage wire. We’re running about 50,000′ of wire total, including cat6, smart home, speaker, etc. I’m not sure if we’ll use all of this, but they sure are trying. At…

We’ve learned a lot about how this whole project is coming together; things are much more complicated than I had any idea about. And right now, we’re in the phase I will refer to as the boring, important stuff: plumbing, hvac, electrical, gas lines, etc. While the walls are open, many pipes and tubes and…

So after a bit of a hiatus from mid-December through the end of January, things are back in action, with a vengeance. On the outside, we’ve got doors and windows going in, a roof on, siding coming soon. And on the inside, we’ve got plumbing, HVAC, and are just about to start on electrical. Plus…

It got cold. We moved into the “trades” phase of the project. And things seemed to have slowed down quite a bit. Now that I got my excuses for not posting out of the way, here are a few quick updates! First, the big thing we’ve been working on is designing the kitchen, cabinets in…

I took a few shots of the great room and office from a few different angles, now that they framing is complete. Documenting here for posterity! And the office:

So I was a bit slow on the crane post, but as a bonus, now we have a roof! This is looking a lot like the final vision now, and we couldn’t be more excited. And how did all of this amazing stuff happen? A crane! I know we’re going backwards in time here, but…

A bit delayed, but its been a flurry of activity. The entire house is now framed out, including the massive wall of windows that will be the focal point of our great room, and tomorrow, the crane arrives to put on the roof! This picture is a few days old, missing a wall or two,…

We’re continuing a streak of good weather, and so the builders are getting work DONE! We’ve finished up the foundation, including lots of little surprises with the existing foundation, and are now on to framing out the house. This part is VERY exciting, because we’re finally getting the full scale of what the finished home…

The evolution of digging out a very deep basement, in parts… To start, they had to dig out and under the existing foundation, so that it could be underpinned to support the open air of the MUCH deeper basement for the addition. To size, the existing basement has 7′ ceiling heights, and the new basement…

The day we’ve been anxiously awaiting has arrived! While the builders have made a ton of progress gutting and re-framing the existing house, we’re finally breaking new ground on the additions. First, they broke out all of the existing garage slab and driveway for the new 3-car, side facing garage. The first pic shows the…