Author: chip

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…

For the last few months, it’s been mostly “destructive” progress on the house. Gutting the inside, ripping out the chimney, lots of dumpsters full of old house bits. But we’re now starting to see the first signs of forward movement, starting with a new main beam and the main stairs! This new beam is not…

A good friend of a friend has been getting pretty good at 3d modeling and render offered to model some of our rooms, and it has BLOWN MY MIND. Here’s a couple shots of our great room that he has modeled, with different lighting at different times of day, playing with some textures, and it…

You don’t really understand the sheer amount of decisions you’ll need to make for a house until you’re eyeballs deep in it. Floors, cabinets, hardware, windows, paint, faucets, toilets, doors, tile, more tile, another tile, the list is long. Unending, even. Today we went looking at floors, and fortunately, I think we’ve found the one…

We had been looking for a new home for approximately 2 years, but this was mid-pandemic and inventory was LOW. What houses did come up for sale went through absurd bidding wars, leading to massive over-bids that waived all inspections and contingencies. It was a rough environment to be a buyer. Meanwhile, we were still…

So we’re blogging about it, obv. We’re officially underway as of July 2024, after almost 2 years of architecture, design, quoting, and permitting.