Week 6 & 7

The house is coming along great!  Now that all the framing is done, it's time for all of the utilities are going in.

Garage Door!

Fireplace insert

Duct work in kitchen

Main Bath

Furnace

House plans taped to sliding door. 

Week 5 - Framing

I was shocked to go see the house this week, because it finally looks like a house!  They worked super hard this week and got all of the framing done!  Apparently, we were pretty lucky in the timing of everything that the framing showed up on site and the framers were available to start on it the next day.  Sometimes people have to wait weeks for the framers to be available.  If everything goes according to plan from here on, we should be having our pre-drywall meeting in 2 weeks and the house should be done by late November, maybe first week of December.  We were originally told December 10, so if we can get in earlier, that would be great!  I can't wait to start decorating for Christmas!

First floor framing complete, view of morning room.

Front of house, first floor framing.  I'm so glad we did a 2' extension on the garage, because I like the different levels of roof on garage and entryway.

Kitchen with view of the pantry.

Standing in kitchen looking into morning room.

Family room looking at fireplace

Dining Room (which will be our play room).  Front door opening to right.

Upstairs bedroom on front of house.

Bedroom 2

Master Bath

Standing in Loft looking at stairs and 2 bedrooms.

Basement. Utilities will go on left

Basement looking back at bathroom rough-in

Basement doors to back yard.

Framing complete on both levels!  It finally looks like a house!

Week 4 - Foundation Poured

Not too much exciting this week, but the foundation was poured and all of the framing showed up on the site. I'm still amazed at how small everything looks, even though I know what it will look like when finished.

Garage on Left, Basement below.

Our front door and windows arrived!

Basement with supports for stairs.

Week 3 - We have basement walls!

Time to play catch-up!  It's been a little hectic running back and forth between both parent's houses and living out of suitcases, but in my absence online, the house has really been coming together and it's amazing how fast things are moving along.  They got the basement walls poured during week 3!

View from the back of the house. The hole will be our doors to backyard

Garage

Plumbing in basement

Week 2 - Footers/Foundation Walls

The footers are poured (pics are in week 1 post, oops!) and the foundation walls are getting ready to be poured next! Also, I'll be doing my best throughout this whole process to get all of the construction lingo correct, but don't be surprised if I get some (or many) things wrong!

Week 1 - Breaking Ground

Well, it's official! Our house construction has begun!  It was very exciting in theory, but not very exciting to see. Still makes us happy to finally see some progress and the beginning of our journey!

Site is dug!

Footers are in!

Pre-Construction Meeting

Things have been fairly quiet lately, as we've been waiting for our pre-construction meeting, which we had last week.  I have to admit that I wasn't really looking forward to it.  Not that I was dreading it, but I feel like we've talked about all of these things so many times that I wasn't really looking forward to spending another 2 hours talking about them.  I understand the purpose of the meeting, though.  We to officially meet our PM (who we've already spoken to a few times) and make sure he is on the same page with everything that we wanted.  The meeting wasn't nearly as bad as I thought and we got to walk our site that had all the stakes in place for where the house will be situated, so that was kind of neat to see.  Ground-breaking should be this upcoming week, so I guess that will be the official start of progress happening on the house!  I'm excited to see the whole process and how everything will come together and eventually be our home!  Hopefully the next post will have some pics to go with it! 

Side note:  We discussed the driveway incline.  They told us it won't be quite as steep as the one we were looking at, but will still have a slope, which is apparently necessary for drainage.  I guess it is what it is at this point and one of the disadvantages to building before most of the houses are in.  I think it will be fine, just not what I was expecting.