Our home construction project

We have tons of things to finish up before we are ready to move in, but we just might be ready by the end of the month. Not everything will ...

For some reason it feels like things are moving slowly, but when I look at my last post I see that a lot of things have gotten done. The sto...

Today the masons finished up most of the stone work on the front of the house. They will also be using the same stone to build a "base...

The framers have pretty much wrapped up. They have moved on to another job while we wait for a few materials to show up. It feels weird not ...

The weather has really slowed things down. I can't believe how much rain we are getting. This week more siding has been installed, along...

The roof is on, and now everything inside can finally dry out. We also had the concrete porch poured, along with a small patio outside of th...

Most of the framing is complete and we have passed our shear wall inspection. All that is left to do for framing is a couple interior walls,...

There's not a lot of new things to write about, but I have some more photos to share. Here is a pic of the 2nd floor of the workshop. Jo...

On Monday the roofers finished up the shingles on the detached workshop. This provides us a dry place to put some of the extra building mate...

We finally have electricity ! The power company showed up a little earlier than expected, but we had all the holes and trenches ready by th...

Oops. I guess it has been a while since I've posted an update, so here's a big one. Since last update: 1) The foundation hole has be...

I was hoping to have the majority of the backfill completed this week, but we had to delay the waterproofing due to the weather. We tried dr...