Showing posts with label Farmhouse Roof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farmhouse Roof. Show all posts

Friday, September 9, 2011

Week Nine {Days One thru Five} ...

Sorry I have been MIA this past week. The 2011-2012 school year started {I have a pretty adorable group of 17 first & second graders!} Tuesday and we have been trying to adjust to our new schedule. Life is very busy, but wonderful! 

We are officially less then TWO months away from living in our HOME! I am beyond excited.  This past week was a big one... our dry wall went up! The next two weeks will be spent finishing {mudding} the dry wall and then we will get to paint! Seeing the dry wall go up officially made our house feel like home. I can't wait to get moved in and spend the next few months unpacking, organizing and slowly decorating {that part still intimidates me...}. We are so close! 

This week they also...

Put the roof on our porch 
Installed the garage door 
Installed the front door
We FINALLY decided on a siding color and started painting {we are using fiber cement siding and painting it ourselves}
Soffit and fascia went up 
Insulation was finished before dry wall went up 

Porter and Daddy in the tractor!


Nick and his dad put in all of the insulation. This is a horrendous job. Nick's best friend, Derek, also helped with this. You guys rock! {this is the kitchen}

Before dry wall.

Installing dry wall.

Sky light! {in master bathroom and the boy's bathroom}

Garage door! Siding going up to the left.

Siding color we decided on! It got the most votes and we also liked it best. What do you think?! I am really excited to have a red house!

I love our front door.

One view from entrance.

Other view.

Kitchen. {with Porter and Sam's tail!}

Living room.

Master closest :) I can't wait to get our stuff organized again ...

Our bedroom.

Standing in the dining room area looking down the hallway towards the entry. Half bath on the right {first door} then the door to the basement.

Have a great weekend, friends!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Week Seven {Days Four & Five} ...


Our guys continued to work on the porch framing and porch roof!

Nick cut  out the window frames in the garage and put the windows in!






There was some crazy storm clouds as the rain moved in. I tried to capture them in this picture, and the pictures below.




Nick and Porter watching the storm move in from the master bedroom.

Well, hello there sweet one.

Gorgeous sunset after the rain {it was a quick rain, only about 20 minutes}.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Week Six {Days One & Two} ...


It's hard to believe we are already at week six in the building process. As with every new and exciting thing, time has seemed to both go by so fast, and so slow. I find that with each day the house looks more and more like a house, our home, and I am getting more and more eager to be living there. We are about half way there, and I can't wait!


This week they started all of our electrical work. I hadn't ever seen how they do this {even with all of the job sites I have visited} and I thought it was really interesting. However, it's very hard to photograph! So, I did my best. The second shot above is one of the kitchen windows, the main one that will be over the sink.

 They built our basement stairs, which I was very excited about!


They also got all the walls framed upstairs. This picture is of the landing/nook right at the top of the stairs. Eventually we will put a window seat/bookcases here.

Looking into the doorway/hallway of our master bedroom. This first door inside is Nick's office, next to that is our closest framed, and then it goes into our bedroom which then also leads into our bathroom. It is so hard to capture just the framing in pictures because it all just kind of runs together. But, I want to remember this for our sake, so bear with me! 


Nick's office.

Our closet.

Our bedroom.



Our bathroom.



Laundry room. We had upstairs laundry at our last house and I loved it. It was so nice to not have to haul the laundry down two flights of stairs. I was able to stay on top of the massive laundry that two babies {and two adults!} create much easier this way. So, when we decided to build this was one of my requests: upper level laundry!



Boys bathroom/hallway.


Porter's room {and eventually Weston's room as well once he is out of our room, I think. Still haven't decided if I want them to share a room or not}! When we walked into it for the first time and I told him, "This is your room!" he got a huge smile on his face and said, "Hurray!" He is so excited about his house, it's really cute.

They finished the roof/shingles on the back of the house!

This is the largest fieldstone they found when excavating our land. I love it. I am still currently trying to figure out something wonderful to do with it.


Porter has some of his {that used to be Nick's!} big trucks that he keeps out on the property to play with when we are there. He loves this.

Happy Baby hanging out in {our soon to be} mudroom. 

For some reason this one came up last... this is the other view from the landing looking the other way. You see the boy's bedroom and guest bedroom.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Week Five {Days One thru Five} ...

What a week we have had in our household! My sister, brother-in-law and cutest nephew were here visiting from California. We were so happy to have them here. On Tuesday Weston got sick {after we finally got Porter back to 100%} and then I came down with the same stuff. So, I wasn't able to get out to take step by step pictures this week. We did go out there together yesterday and I was able to snap some pictures of the progess this week. I have loved watching everything come together. It's so much fun going out there each time and seeing such huge changes. This coming week is a big one, with lots of exciting things happening, and I can't wait!

 The cement cookies for the decking {which is coming soon!}.
 Sam sitting on the pile of dirt looking out at the view.


 Trusses were set, roof was sheeted with plywood and ice & water shield was put on.






We have tons of HUGE fieldstones that have been dug up during all the excavation. We will use them to bulid our rock walls, and also for our fireplace.





The garage was framed and the plywood was put up. The windows still need to be cut out of the plywood {this week}.

I thought this was a cool shot of the garage trusses.


Our desperate attempt to try and pick out an exterior color for our house. So far? NO luck!