Adventures in Home Building

Here is a recent exterior picture. It's nice to have the grading done (and even better when the ground stays frozen so the dogs don'...

It was a busy weekend. The wood nailers were already installed, but on Friday I finished up the wiring and, at the end of the day, we had m...

Coming through the foyer "airlock" door, there are three directions to go. Straight leads into the GreatRoom Right leads into the ...

The front door does not open into the center of the foyer, it is offset to one side. This first picture is what you'd see when coming t...

The "doorway" in the lower left is the pantry mentioned in the last post. You can see the support post from before, too. The do...

(I need to figure out if there is a cleaner way to do thes layouts. This may be hard to follow. I've done some searching on adding capt...

These are necessary for us to get the slope of the final grade as we desire. Stacking up these blocks is not that hard (granted, someone who...

As the title indicates, we passed our rough framing and mechanical inspection today. Now we can get the vapor barrier up and call in the roc...

OK , finally, some new pics to post. The small open areas in the siding below the windows are for sills and the open areas up near the gable...

There just have not been that many picture-worthy changes, but here is a status report. The windows all look great. The last windows that n...

We were greeted by this fine site after work yesterday!

Not much daylight left in th evenings . . . . The windows should all be in by the end of this week. This is exciting because some of the ro...

During the plan stage, you mark up your drawings with every location you think you might want an outlet or switch on an outside wall. When t...

The shingles have started and the HVAC and Plumbing rough are mostly done. I am not totally satisfied with the mechanicals and am going to t...

Not a lot of major stuff lately, but things are moving ahead. The HVAC rough-in started today, and we finished the stairs from the first to ...

Not much to say about this one. It was a long day, but I'm not complaining since we had a crane. The rafter tails are not long enough so...

This little hummingbird built a nest not 6' off the ground and 20' from the house. The wife was the first to spot it. We think she...