Once the framing got started, we saw tons of progress day after day. The basement went up SUPER fast. It took them two weeks to frame the entire house! We can tell where things will go and the feel of "the lot" has now become real. We no longer call it "the lot", its our "HOUSE". It really felt like this was never going to happen. Its awesome!!!!!
This is our first picture together IN the house. It was taken on Dave's Bday.
Only the basement was done at this point. No stairs yet.
It was great and slightly emotional to be in OUR HOUSE :) LOVE IT!!!!
Tomi was here and she got a quick glimpse of what the house will sortta look like.
It was AWESOME to have her here! It was a super short time (more on that on another post).
Here we are, the three of us, together! :)
You could sit and watch the house come up! It was pretty awesome to go up the several times a day, dropping off or picking up the kids, and see the progress being made :)
The upstairs seemed to take a little longer, but not really. It was still super fast.
Again, it was pretty crazy to see it go up so fast.
This is a view from the "kitchen" into the house,
you can see some of our rooms towards the back :)
This day was pretty cool. We have stairs!
This made it feel like the two floors were finally connected.
Yay! Roof trusses!!!! The house taking shape...
This week we got our roof, almost done...
Today we got doors! The front door, garage door into the house,
deck door and basement door out to the backyard.
A LOT has been getting done inside the house. Plumbing has been put it, we have bathtubs, and showers, rough plumbing in the bathrooms and for the appliances. HVAC has been put threw all sorts of little crevasses. Electrical has been wired and strung all over the place.
LOTS of decisions have been made. I have picked out the exterior colors, doors, lighting, cabinets, counter tops and lots of little layout things that we were unsure of. Its been GREAT!
Next week I will be picking out fixtures, flooring, interior colors and finalizing a bunch of little things. We've had great subs working on the house and that is a cherry on top.
There is still long way to go, but the light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer!!!! We are happy and SO looking forward to the next month+ to get in our home. It will be a year, in June, since we sold our old house. We never thought this would take this long, but it will be worth it in the end :)
LIFE IS GOOD!!!!
