Category: build

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.